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...milk bath and even undergoes pseudo psychoanalysis with Guru Timothy Leary. Of course, Jones has always had a sizable appetite for fashion overstatement, so she did not shrink from slipping her 5-ft. 9-in. frame into a 30-ft. by 60- ft. dress. And she tops off the reckless excess with phantasmagoric headgear that looks like a co-creation by Medusa and Dr. Seuss. Proclaims Jones: "The audience sees me as a larger-than-life image they can worship -- like a hero." So there. And Liberace, babe, eat your heart...
...Reckless Disregard...
...Reckless Disregard, like the trials it examines, is provocative but not very exciting stuff. Adler spent more than a year poring over transcripts of the trial and pre-trial depositions. Too often the book gets bogged down in the minutiae of the proceedings. More interesting is the controversy that has developed over Adler and her book...
While the claims of CBS and Time were declared to be unfounded, the courts did not find them guilty of "actual malice" or of a "reckless disregard" for the truth. Hence, they were not guilty of libel. Adler writes that such a standard of libel is incoherent. When calling for a reinterpretation of the libel laws, however, she is not very convincing--or credible...
...case was dismissed in September, but Adler would have had an easier libel standard to meet had she not been categorized by the court as: a public figure. It's quite surprising, isn't it, that the furious press critic who wrote Reckless Disregard did not think to include a disclaimer about her own involvement in libel proceedings...