Posted on 01/31/2005 8:08:42 PM PST by 68skylark
The Times is too timid. Reporters are making too much money to take chances, except for that moron Jayson Blair...
Yes --- hopefully the murderer will spend his whole life in prison or be given the death penalty --- I guess not in NY.
The Lizziemobile was a great tabloid stunt. Then came 9|11 and they lost their edge for a while.
Some of the headlines over the years were keepers. My personal fave was "Wacko Jacko Backo".
...and when OPEC looked like it was going to collapse in the early eighties, SHEIK HITS THE FAN
...then there was the confusion regarding who owned the Post and Pete Hamill edited it from a booth in the diner...
The way he described the real-life story that later became the basis for The Front Page was really gripping, as was the time he was a reporter in Berlin, watching mass executions by the Stahlhelm during the failed Spartacus uprising.
His problem was he kept retelling the same stories over again, and was obsessive. Hard to believe his most lasting contribution to pop culture was his rewrite of the Gone With the Wind screenplay.
Oh I remember that one. :-)
...he still gets more play than McArthur or Leibling.
Oh yeah! Also, do you remember the reporters were getting paid in singles peeled off from the newsstand collectors?
Buddy of mine wound up with one of those hideous Hirschfeld ties.
Yeah, come to think of it, does anyone remember Walter Lippman?
You know McArthur's son was Dan-o on H50?
Nobody remembers Charles McArthur, which is tragic.
That's when NYC was fun. Now the Post building is mini storage...there used to be a great ginmill across from the Times called Gough's. That's gone, too.
You know who McArthur's brother was, right? The eccentric insurance mogul, the McArthur Prize and half the shows on PBS are sponsored by him. Apparently he ran a billion dollar business out of a coffee shop in a Miami hotel that he owned.
Wow. You see, I missed out on all of that and only know it from old-timers.
The Post building was the coolest. Sad to see it gone to waste as a Manhattan Storage site. At least the old Park Row Times building is a Pace University building.
Pinging you news and the original link (which I included) to the slain actress story that you posted.
"I'm not a Madame - I'm a Concierge!"
Oh, really? That's the McArthur Foundation?
Also, Charlie had that long-term affair with Dorothy Parker. What a cast of characters!
Let us not forget the guy who sued Viacom for hundreds of millions for stealing his name, "Jack Ass", or, in the Times, "Mr. Ass".
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