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This is certainly an accurate assessment of tabloid television. But only a few weeks later, Newsweek forfeited its moral authority to denounce sensational journalism when its cover story featured "The Horrifying Steinberg Trial...a chilling tale of drug abuse, systematic beatings, and a life of squalor hidden behind a middle-class facade...
...senior officer at Drexel, Milken was the chief architect of the firm's rise from a lackluster, second-tier brokerage into a feared and envied powerhouse. By developing the use of junk bonds to stake such corporate raiders as Saul Steinberg and T. Boone Pickens, Milken presided over the radical reshaping of American industry in the past ten years. Along the way, dozens of Drexel executives became multimillionaires...
...genre that has run rampant in the past year: the TV docudrama. Virtually every headline- grabbing news story, from mass-murder spree to airline hijacking, is being processed and spun out as "fact-based drama." One can almost feel the hot breath of Hollywood waiting for the Joel Steinberg trial to end so it can be recast and retold as the inevitable Sunday Night Movie...
After he left the apartment, Nussbaum tried several times to waken Lisa, but abandoned the effort because she thought Steinberg could use supernatural healing powers to revive Lisa when he returned. Instead, says Nussbaum, he insisted the couple share some free-base cocaine before calling for help. Nussbaum testified that Steinberg admitted, "I knocked her down, and she didn't want to get up again." Nussbaum suggested a motive for the brutal beating: Steinberg believed Lisa and the couple's other illegally adopted child, Mitchell, then 16 months old, were hypnotizing him with their stares...
...order to testify, Nussbaum, 46, was forced to come to terms with the horror of her ordeal. Originally police charged her, along with Steinberg, with second-degree murder. Prosecutors dropped the charge after becoming convinced she had been so battered psychologically and physically that she could not have participated in beating Lisa. After months of intensive psychiatric care, Nussbaum agreed to testify for the prosecution. On the eve of her testimony, Nussbaum made what her psychiatrist calls a "final declaration of independence" by slapping Steinberg with a $3 million lawsuit for the decade of abuse she allegedly suffered...