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...year absence. The founding father of American finance had his face plastered all over the cover of Tuesday's New York Post, the newspaper he founded in 1801 -- with a huge tear dripping down his cheek. The tear had been planted there by mutinous editors at the famously sleazy tabloid who refused to relinquish control to real estate mogul Abe Hirschfeld, the latest multimillionaire to attempt to take over the paper. In 20 pages of nonstop abuse, Post staffers described Hirschfeld as a "nut," a racist, a deplorable landlord, a hostage taker, a sociopath and an anti-Semite -- a daring...
Hamilton had been noticeably dry-eyed back in January, when bankrupt Post owner Peter Kalikow unloaded the guns-'n'-buns tabloid on shadowy New York financier Steven Hoffenberg. At the time, Hoffenberg was under federal investigation for fraud. Even so, Hoffenberg had initially seemed an acceptable owner to most of the future Post mutineers. Hoffenberg hired as his editor Pete Hamill, the open-necktie Post alumnus whom he paid $500,000 a year to reprise his long-running I'm-just-a-working-class-stiff...
...drill has become depressingly routine. A news story hits the evening news or one of the TV tabloid shows; then the agents and producers descend. Sometimes there is a bidding war to lock up the rights for the participants' stories. Other times, the public record -- press accounts or court transcripts -- will suffice. The point is to get something on screen fast, while the story is fresh in viewers' minds...
...Like the tabloid TV programs that its plot parodies, this year's Pudding show (as usual) tries to pull its jokes and puns from today's headlines. Sometimes writers Nell Benjamin and the brothers O'Keefe (Laurence and Mark) try a little too hard. But the performances, directed by Greg Minahan, couldn't be better. Overall, "Romancing the Throne" left us chairing for more. (Okay, we tried. We'll stop...
...face it, there is an element of truth in the character of D-FENS. But it is, finally, tabloid truth. His motives and psychology are not, to say the least, subtly set forth. The menaces lurking in the city he traverses are exaggerated. And the people who drive him over the edge are all racially or socially stereotypical, the broadly drawn "others" imagined by the uninformed middle class, quaking behind the walls of their gated communities, talking at cocktail parties about buying guns and insisting -- not entirely persuasively -- that they wouldn't be afraid to use them. To the degree...