Word: crushes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what is known in the talk-show business as an ambush. The Jenny Jones Show brought Jonathan Schmitz on the air in 1995 to be surprised by a "secret crush." When the crush turned out to be a man, Scott Amedure, an unstable Schmitz three days later shot his onetime friend to death. Amedure's family sued the show, and last week it was Jenny Jones that got ambushed--by a $25 million jury verdict...
...argued it was the show's recklessness that set the crime in motion. They contended that the producers should have screened the guests enough to know that Schmitz had a history of mental illness, and the show should have realized that the humiliation of being surprised by a gay crush on TV might send an emotionally fragile person like Schmitz over the edge. The jury agreed. (Schmitz is scheduled to be retried for the murder in August; a 1996 conviction was reversed on appeal...
...defense presented evidence Schmitz was in fact told that the crush could be a man or a woman--and that he said either would be O.K. And both Amedure and Donna Riley, a friend of both men, willingly appeared on the show. If neither of them thought it would cause Schmitz to snap, the defense argued, how could the Jenny Jones Show have foreseen...
...Mexican woman who identified herself only as "Laura" spoke next and said the government was trying to "crush" the indigenous people...
...case, the white knight of Carver, popular jock Paul Metzel (Chris Klein). Tracy, of course, throws a fit, but even she can't keep up with the unfolding soap-operas--especially when Paul's lesbian younger sister jumps into the election fray as revenge for Paul's "stealing" her crush...