Word: libellant
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...since the Lee Marvin "palimony" case has a Hollywood courtroom drama attracted such attention. As an expectant crowd lined the corridors at Los Angeles County superior court last week, Actress-Comedian Carol Burnett arrived for the first day of proceedings in her $10 million libel suit against the sensationalist weekly tabloid the National Enquirer (circ. 5.1 million). Said a determined-looking Burnett: "I'm very happy to be here. It's like a five-year-old toothache and I'm finally at the dentist...
...fascinating, whatever Greene says, and spiced with ir resistible anecdotes. Producer Sam Zimbalist once asked Greene to revise the end of a script for a remake of Ben-Hur: "You see, we find a kind of anticlimax after the Crucifixion." There was the tune the author was sued for libel by Shirley Temple; Greene recalls, "I had suggested that she had a certain adroit coquetry which appealed to middle-aged men." And the time he was deported from Puerto Rico by U.S. authoritie, Greene, 76, has survived professionally for some 50 years by never telling a bad story. Ways...
...jabs by artists at real or imagined foes. But none of the victims-not even Picasso's distorted women-actually took their outrage or wounded vanity to court until 1975, in New York City, when two artists, Jacob Silberman and Anthony Siani, sued a colleague, Paul Georges, for libel. The reason: Georges' painting The Mugging of the Muse (right), which includes two sinister figures wearing masks that, the plaintiffs claimed, were their own faces. Complained Siani: "It lessens me in front of my peers because if an artist attacks the muse, he's killing art." A civil...
...kickbacks from three Tel Aviv religious institutions. The bribes were allegedly for directing ministerial funds to yeshivot (religious schools) that did not in fact exist. As the storm broke over his head, Abuhatzeira appeared on Israeli television and cockily denounced the stories as "provocation and a libel...
Although campaigning for the Oct. 5 national elections does not officially begin until next week, a vicious war of character assassination, borderline libel, slanderous posters, films and campaign buttons has been raging for weeks in West Germany. Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, leader of the ruling coalition of Social Democrats and Free Democrats, has been smeared as a megalomaniac, a "war Chancellor" and a "tool of Moscow." His conservative challenger, Bavaria's Minister-President Franz Josef Strauss, has been dubbed a fascist, "a danger to us all" and "a prisoner of uncontrollable emotion...