On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:45 AM, David Bruggeman <[email protected]> wrote: > The ex-Chief went on a Twitter spree over it - he thought it a good piece, > and I tend to agree.
I tend to disagree. I am really surprised that this is being seen as a credible piece of journalism - it reads more like Halderman ghost wrote it. He uses the fact that almost no woman who has worked for Dave has said anything negative about him as evidence that he is such an evil monster he has intimidated or brainwashed them into silence. The breathless sexual history is embarrassing mostly for how short the roster is, for one of the best known, wealthiest and most powerful men in the entertainment world. He was an asshole to his first wife who he married in college, got divorced, and then had sexual relationships with a handful of women over the next 30 years, until he married his second wife. I would bet there aren't 5 other men anywhere close to Dave's level in the entertainment world with a more boring sexual history - hell I would bet there aren't 25 men who were sexually mature in the 1970s who now have a more boring sexual history in any industry. We again see the charged that the only women who get promoted by Dave are the ones who screw him (which I guess tells us all we need to know about the sex lives of Barbara Gains and Maria Pope). The inconvenient truth that there is no evidence offered, or existing, for this charge never stops anyone from repeating it. What was interesting was what looks like a verbatim transcript from the tape recording of Halderman's extortion attempt. My legal education consists of having seen every episode of Law and Order - many more than 5 times. Based on that, if I were the prosecutor I would play the following, rest my case and sit down: "Halderman said he would need a written contract and noted that there would be tax issues related to the sale. “I’m going to call my accountant tomorrow, and I’m going to tell him I’m optioning a screenplay,” Halderman said. “I think that’s how we should define this.” Halderman said that, in addition to writing the screenplay, he had been planning to do a book based on Letterman. “It’s mostly in my head, so you can’t buy that,” he told Jackoway. “I sort of just started outlining a book, so I can give you the yellow legal notepad of notes of that if you are so inclined.” The $2 million payment had to be in the form of a check. That way, if Halderman was ever audited by the I.R.S., “I’m going to say I made this deal with Worldwide Pants and this is the contract they gave me and I signed.… Let’s cut to the chase here,” he went on. “The issue is your client does not want this information public. I have said, for a price, I will sign a confidentiality agreement and I will not make this information public. That’s the deal. If that’s not acceptable, then I will move forward.”" -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
