AW1Steve
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Joined: 3/10/2007 From: Mordor Illlinois Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: Terminus How big a story is this whole blackmail business with David Letterman in the States? Seems a bit outlandish to us watching it from afar... It's received a fair amount of coverage, in the "news of the weird" vein , but that probably has more to do with a slow news period then anything else. Plus, if combined with the Roman Polanski story , seems to indicate a growing "hollywood vs. the rest of us" feeling. Most people I talk to about the stories have after years of stories of Hollywood scandals and excesses can only ask "is there anything that those pond scum won't sink to? And consider themselves justified because they are SPECIAL?". It doesn't seem to me that the Letterman and Polanski stories can be compared. Polanski drugged a 13-year old girl, took naked photos of her and then had sex with her. That's reprehensible, but it's also interesting that the victim herself, who was paid a $500,000 settlement out of court, doesn't want him to be prosecuted for it now. The Letterman thing seems to have been several instances of consenting adults having relations. Letterman has always seemed like a bit of a dawg to me. The problem with the Letterman angle is that in his show he constantly makes fun of people who do the same thing as he did. Do as I say , not as I do. As far as combining the two stories, it's simply two more of the seemingly endless sordid stories that come out of the entertainment industry. People are simply sick of these morons and their continuous nonsense. Yet you can't watch the news without stories of Paris , etc.
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