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...venture forth only rarely. They journeyed to the White House when Ragtime was screened for the President, and this week at the New York Press Club, Cagney will memorialize his old friend Robert Montgomery, who died in September. He is also considering another movie role, as an aging Bat Masterson...
...dreamed up the basic idea, John Masterson, is no stranger to real-life programming. He is best known for the 1950s show Bride and Groom, which featured a wedding ceremony daily. Masterson passed the courtroom idea to Stu Billett who, along with Ralph Edwards, did the rest. Says Billett: "There are so many people who don't know what small-claims court is about. This show will tell them how they must prepare to tell their story." On the other hand, Billett hopes that careful case selection and a swift pace will shield his TV audience from one thing...
Convinced that the Enquirer had acted with reckless disregard for the truth, the jury awarded Burnett $300,000 in general damages and $1.3 million-almost as much as the privately owned tabloid says it earned in 1980-in punitive damages (her legal fees were more than $200,000). William Masterson, the Enquirer's lawyer, said the decision would be appealed...
Enquirer Attorney William Masterson contends that Burnett suffered no damages from the story, "even if it was defamatory." Burnett's lawyers maintain that she was so upset she was forced to delay rehearsals of a television special that she was working on with Opera Star Beverly Sills. The story, which implied she had been drinking, was particularly painful to Burnett because her parents both died of alcoholism. The Enquirer's attorneys are expected to include in their defense the issue of freedom of the press. But Burnett, among others, argues that the First Amendment also requires a responsibility...
...meter diving--1. Stone (H) 231.20; 2. Holy (H) 3. Masterson...