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Eszterhas' imaginative flair was too much of a good thing during his early years as a newsman at the Cleveland Plain Dealer, where one of his stories cost the paper $60,000 in damages for what, on appeal, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed were "calculated falsehoods." By the time the decision came down, however, Eszterhas had come into his own as a star writer for Rolling Stone, specializing in tough stories about bikers and narcs while adopting the freaky style of fellow staffer Hunter S. Thompson. Former colleague Grover Lewis recalls that Eszterhas first showed up wearing...
Some family. One Post columnist calls his new boss "Repo Man." Another newsman in that shop grouses, "We're sort of like a MASH unit. There's never been enough of anything. We don't know if ((Hoffenberg)) is for real. He talks * a good game. If it turns out to be bluster, we've all been duped...
...commercial pitchmen were not simple parodies; he used them to satirize a whole society that had its priorities out of whack. "The sun did not come up this morning, huge cracks have appeared in the earth's surface, and big rocks are falling out of the sky," a Carlin newsman once announced. "Details 25 minutes from now on Action Central News...
...courtship. "When he feels something is right, he just does it. Without a backward look." When he launched CNN, the Turner who at his WTBS Superstation had relegated the news to a 3 a.m. comedy show that occasionally featured a German shepherd and lemon meringue pies became Turner the Newsman, who traveled from Nicaragua to the Soviet Union to see things for himself and who told CNN president Tom Johnson to spend whatever he needed (it turned out to be $30 million) on the Persian Gulf war coverage...
...misrule had already embarrassed the Greek government. Within weeks of his planned return to the U.S., he confronted Foreign Minister Constantine Tsaldaris with evidence that in violation of his country's currency laws, he had transferred $25,000 to a personal bank account in New York City. The newsman then rashly promised he would broadcast the fact as soon as he got home...