Word: buttafuocos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fisher, 18, is now in jail in connection with the shooting of Mary Jo Buttafuoco, the wife of an older man with whom Fisher supposedly had an affair while she was a high school student. Her case drew national attention from tabloids and inspired three made-for-TV movies...
...alleged lover Joseph Buttafuoco, whom Naiburg referred to as "Joey Cocoa Puffs," Naiburg predicted that he will indicted within a week on charges of statutory rape...
...Yorkers, DAVID LETTERMAN in Los Angeles is like Joey Buttafuoco in Paris. It just ain't right. But despite Letterman's decision to remain in the Big Apple, an inside source says a move to L.A. may have only been delayed. The latest scenario: Letterman will debut his new CBS show in August in New York City and take it out to L.A. for brief visits, and after about a year he'll decide which coast feels better. And what about the 4 million bucks CBS shelled out to buy New York's Ed Sullivan Theater for Dave? Says...
...Including viewers of the three schlockudramas that NBC, CBS and ABC began filming in late November and, in some Olympic sprint of sleaze, got on the air last week. Americans by the megamillions watched, on one network or another, the saga of teenage Amy (the "Long Island Lolita"), Joey Buttafuoco (her alleged lover) and his wife Mary Jo (whom Amy shot in the head). Now that the TV-movie epidemic is over, everyone has a bad case of remorse. Is there a morning-after pill for pop cultural guilt...
...Marinaro, who played Joey on NBC, seemed mortified: "Let's just say I wouldn't do Joey Buttafuoco: The Series." But Marinaro, who nicely captured the obtuse swagger of a suburban stud, was only one of those to profit from saturation coverage of Amy's shame. Amy was another. For the NBC movie, producers paid $80,000 toward her bail and smaller sums to her boyfriend Paul Makely, to would-be gunman Stephen Sleeman and to PEOPLE reporter Maria Eftimiades. The Buttafuocos earned $300,000 for the CBS movie, and New York Post columnist Amy Pagnozzi was a paid consultant...