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Posted Thursday, September 30, 1999 [Note: You can sign up for the free kausfiles.com e-mail service at the end of this column.] Miramax mouthpiece Andrew Stengel continues to tell inquiring reporters that his boss, Miramax co-chair Harvey Weinstein, isn't making plans for a TV comedy based on Miramax's Talk magazine. ...Hmmm. ... How to put this diplomatically ... Stengel is full of it! The comedy project, first reported in this kausfiles.com story, does indeed exist. Tina Brown is involved. Two questions, though: a) how is the show going to be funny unless it makes fun of Brown? A comedy about a brilliant, witty, beautiful editor beset by incompetent staffers and lazy writers somehow doesn't grab us; and b) how much does Stengel get paid to say things that aren't true? How sure is kausfiles.com that it's report is accurate? Sure enough to make this offer: If Mr. Weinstein can prove kausfiles.com wrong on this, kausfiles.com will present Mr. Weinstein with the chairman of kausfiles' own personal automobile. This is not just any automobile, but a 1989 Honda Civic DX 4-Dr. sedan, low-mileage, with Michelin tires and premium Tokico shock absorbers. We'll even throw in a full tank of gas! You can drive it away, Mr. Weinstein, if kausfiles is wrong! New York Times Retreats!
Under withering attack from an indignant
kausfiles.com reader (see here) the
New York Times has issued an apology of
sorts for reporter Eric Pace's awful Judith
Campbell Exner obituary, which suggested that
she might not have had an affair with President
John F. Kennedy after all. The 9/30 Times'
"Editor's Note" says, in part:
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Copyright 1999 Mickey Kaus.
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