4/10/2023 0 Comments Rebel socialite![]() ![]() Why the world is still waiting for a dementia cure.'Handle with grace': Rebel Wilson on being outed.Leah Purcell’s new songlines: 'I come from the dirt and I"m proud'.Now that really was something else, and it belled the cat on how some aspects of the old media still don't get it - the celebrities own the presses now, we in the media just get the notifications. The interview or the article can still be a thing of wonder: another eternal wrestle between subject and interlocutor that reveals so much beyond the filters.įor mine, the most egregious aspect of this entire affair was the peevish and complaining article that revealed the failed gotcha in the first place, and the palpable outrage of a writer being got. When one of these stars is willing, however, to sit down with a journalist of insight and wit and style, then that's something else. Like any other consumer, I also quite like having what seems like direct access to the stars I admire. ![]() When Justin Bieber wanted to inform the world that he'd been struck down by a virus that has paralysed one side of his face, he posted a video on Instagram. The ethics of outing won't take long to discuss: don't do it, or if you choose to do it, cop the backlash that comes with it and shut up - easy.īut I think what Hornery and the paper failed to take account of was a power exchange between media and celebrity that is now not so much complete as absolute.įorget the old adage about not picking a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel: the celebrities own the means of reproduction now, and they do so to the power of numbers you can't even imagine. And you would push hard to get it first and to get it to yourself.īut whereas my esteemed peers in the gossip game of years gone by knew there was only one way out of the corner once a columnist with a pointed pen had backed you in - and that was either out through their paper or through the competitor's paper, on whatever terms you could negotiate - this world is very, very different. ![]() If you're in the celebrity gossip game, of course you would want it. It was perfectly clear that the Sydney Morning Herald and gossip columnist Andrew Hornery wanted the scoop - a massive celebrity reveal of someone's sexuality - when he forewarned actor Rebel Wilson he was onto news of her first open relationship with another woman. The ethics of outing, a scoop, and where it all went wrong The tone could indeed be snide, as Tracey Lord reminds us, but the English was often quite brilliant. You had to choose to live in discomfort and opprobrium - and be at peace with making some people's lives hell every time they opened their paper with trembling hands. What these brash and shameless writers taught me was you had to have a hell of a hide and not give one single damn about what anyone might think of you. ![]() There was Peter Smark, whose capacity for bitchiness was breathtaking and was the writer everyone feared and the delightfully wicked Richard Ackland, who gossiped on the slightly higher plane of the legal world, a place no less naughty or appalling than any of the others. There was Lawrence Money, who tormented the socialite hairdresser Lillian Frank with the moniker "celebrity barber" and Chris Webb, one of the strangest cats you could ever meet, who wrote a cool, arch dissection of the business world. The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald housed an impressive salon of witheringly unkind scribes, whose name alone could chill a room colder than the imported fizz they preferred. I was trained as a reporter among the best of them, and they horrified and enthralled me in equal measure. And all in that horrible, snide, corkscrew English." - Tracey Lord, The Philadelphia StoryĪ confession: I love a good gossip columnist. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues."Watching every little mannerism, jotting down notes on how we sit, stand, talk, and even move. Savage is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Schaefer still is in prison in Indonesia, serving a longer sentence than Mack. Their motive apparently was to inherit money from von Wiese-Mack, who was the widow of jazz and classical composer James L. prison for advising Mack and Schaefer about how to kill Mack’s mother. In 2017, Robert Bibbs was sentenced to nine years in a U.S. Mack’s child is in the custody of Curran’s daughter.ĭefense attorney Leonard said he and Mack were “disappointed” that she was denied bail but understood the judge’s decision due to the serious allegations against her. Mack, who had appeared impassive throughout the hearing, wiped away tears as Curran spoke. Through tears, von Wiese-Mack’s younger sister Debbi Curran said she had been a “second mother” to Mack all her life, but called her niece a “master manipulator.” ![]()
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