Remember that exchange between Daily Business Review Law Editor Harris Meyer and Chicago Tribune national correspondent Tim Jones ? Well, the Trib responded appropriately (this actually ran a few days ago, but I missed it): “A main section story Tuesday on the possibility that serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer may have…
Johnny Depp came to town a couple weeks ago (January 28) and played with his old band, The Kids, at Club Cinema in Pompano Beach. So quiet it was like a secret (Sentinel reported he probably wouldn’t make it, DeFede had it that he would be here the preceding Friday)…
Mad Dog Merkel The Sun-Sentinel is such a trembling leaf of a newspaper it’s surprising it hasn’t floated to the ground and started to decompose. Once again, it sided with keeping its readers in the dark over reporting the details of a news story. This time it happened in a…
Here’s another little tabloid/cable news bombshell. Now she’s banging (assumedly) the Bahamian immigration minister. He let inside the country and she let him inside her … … God this is ludicrous. But there were two distinctive local takes on Anna Nicole over the weekend worth mentioning. The first came from…
The Ladies Man Who knew that Hollywood mega-lobbyist Alan Koslow was such a romantic? We had heard about his stormy extra-marital love affair with Hollywood Gazette publisher Meredith Brown, one that involved her dramatic leap of faith (off a boat in the Intracoastal), an injunction for protection, an unplanned trip…
So the NBA is buzzing about Dwyane Wade’s remark in yesterday’s Miami Herald about Dallas Mav star Dirk Nowitzki not getting it done at crunch-time. Israel Gutierrez quotes the great one thusly: “At the end of the day, you’re remembered for what you did at the end. . . …
CBS-2 in New York comes clean on its apparent reporting error. It also clarifies that it was reporter Scott Weinberger who made it. A previous report made it appear that Tamsen Fadal had reported the “illegal drugs” mini-bombshell — prompting an error by the Pulp in naming her as such…
I’ve got a television in the other room and have it on MSNBC (whenever there’s a big tabloid story breaking, you can count on MSNBC to be the best in the worst way — it does scuzzy very very naturally). Seminole Police Chief Charlie Tiger just announced there were NO…
I got hold of this e-mail exchange between the Daily Business Review’s law editor, Harris Meyer, and Tim Jones, the national correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. It concerns the Jeffrey Dahmer/Adam Walsh story that was initially broken by DBR last month and finally, by a circuitous route, went national this…
Tease found today on king media blogger Romenesko’s Left Rail: “Minnesota Monthly Names Putz editor. (Star Tribune)” Like that’s news (here’s the link to the story)…
The Anna Nicole Smith death coverage wasn’t spectacular this morning. The front-page Sun-Sentinel article, which involved nine reporters, led this way: “Anna Nicole Smith’s media-hyped journey of celebrity, marked by dubious successes and all-too-human tragedies, ended Thursday …” So far, so good. In fact, I would say it’s a damn…
Reunited? So the Hard Rock can’t get Vegas-style slot machines, but they can get a pseudo-celebrity death that will make the Seminole-owned casino and hotel an international show-business landmark for decades to come? I don’t know, is the death of a drug-addled, gold-digging, soft-porn Playboy pin-up at one’s establishment good…
Cynthia Berman-Miller, at far left, with Hollywood Commish Cathy Anderson (in purple), lobbyist Alan Koslow, and County Commish Sue Gunzberger (watch that hand, Al!) I’m going to be updating this damn bloggy beast all day long, but wanted to start with news coming from Hollywood that former state legislator Ken…
In an attempt to show you that you can, indeed, survive without your daily dose of the Pulp for 72 hours or so, I withdrew from posting the past few days. Now, don’t you feel better? (Actually, corporate callously unplugged us while they tinkered on something or other. Brilliant management…
It’s Sunday evening, and Scorpico gaming center at Sunset Place in South Miami is quiet. Six or seven lanky preteen boys sit huddled in a corner, swearing, deeply involved in a PC fantasy game. Dianne Bonfiglio walks in late for practice. The pretty 30-something settles at an Xbox 360 in…
The sign outside MJ’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Clubhouse reads “Eat, Drink, Remember.” Which didn’t make much sense to me, since the second item generally precludes the third. But when I entered the red-lit joint with the black-and-white tiled arch and the posters of Elvis and some dude on stage was…
Mrs. Tailpipe flung open the front door and walked in with quick, short steps, as if she were carrying something heavy. Tailpipe turned to see her rumble into the kitchen, one hand pushed into the pocket of her jacket, clutching something through the material. “This,” she said, dropping the object…
As Anna Nicole Smith’s disembodied soul headed for a touching reunion with J. Howard Marshall II in whatever passes for a heaven for oil tycoons and pneumatic bimbos, the New Times crack team of investigative reporters headed for Hollywood’s Memorial Regional Hospital and the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino…
Face it, Hollywood. Compared with the other beaches that line the South Florida coast, you’re the ugly duckling. Your beachfront condos look like military barracks. Your shops are all chipped paint, faded awnings, and kitsch merchandise. Hell, even your sunbathers are eyesores — oblivious, it seems, to The South Beach…
Freedom Fighter and CNN guinea pig Rick Sanchez goes at it with a subversive Hollywood type, one Charlize Theron. In a once-in-a-lifetime fake offer, Theron, one of the smokingest women in the world, offers to make out with the former Miami motormouth. Like a story of actual substance and worth,…
Earl Maucker is taking applications!…
Ah, the circuitous route a good article can take to finally make its way into the lackadaisical dailies. In this case, the story concerns the possible connection between dead cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer and the Adam Walsh murder and it was published in the Daily Business Review a couple of months…
