Word: fakes
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...Fake. By sprinkling grains of fact into a cheesecake of innuendo, detraction and plain smut, Confidential creates the illusion of reporting the "lowdown" on celebrities. Its standard method: dig up one sensational "fact" and embroider it for 1,500 to 2,000 words. If the subject thinks of suing, he may quickly realize that the fact is true, even if the embroidery is not. Confidential has four libel suits pending against it (including two started by Cinemactors Errol Flynn and Robert Mitchum). But few of its subjects are inclined to go to court over what the magazine prints. Said...
...past, and hammering him with it, e.g., Cinemactor Rory Calhoun's youthful prison record. Sometimes Confidential drops the pretense of reporting altogether, once concluded an article about a Hollywood director and an actress causing a scene in a nightclub with the last line: "It's all a fake...
Trieste-born Vittorio Vidali was proud when he got the assignment to bring Tito down. "This means," said one of his aides, "that anyone among us, if he has the chance, should remove Tito." It hurt Vidali's professional pride to hear described as fake the careful documentation he and Palmiro Togliatti had built up against Tito, which was read out at the 1948 meeting of the Cominform, when Tito was expelled...
...Fake Murder? Shakespeare is first listed as an author in 1593, when the poem Venus and Adonis ("The first heir of my invention,") was registered at the Stationers Company. Plays bearing his name began to appear some years later. In 1598, a Rutlandshire clergyman-schoolteacher, Francis Meres, "specifically names twelve of his plays," compares them to the works of Horace, Homer, Sophocles...
...Philip Hendy there was only one way out. Last week he admitted the National Gallery's mistake. Said Sir Philip: "I think it is the only fake the National Gallery owns. But it is a fake." Art Dealer Koester promptly put his true Virgin on display in his St. James's gallery. Asking price: 18,000 guineas...