Tuesday, May 17, 2011

USAT | Stars in alignment: Maria Shriver Edition

"She's really good friends with Oprah (Winfrey), so you have to think that maybe Oprah is helping her get through this." 

-- People magazine's Joey Bartolomeo, speaking to USA Today, about the news today that Arnold Schwarzenegger had fathered a child with a household staffer while married to Maria Shriver. Not missing a celebrity beat, the paper's story also quotes an expert saying the scandal could boost the actor's brand as he re-enters show business.

7 comments:

  1. Is there a story more tailor-made for USA Today than this one?

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  2. WSJ and NYT covered it too. Sorry Jim...this one is of interest.

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  3. To be clear: It's a great story for everyone -- especially USAT.

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  4. No matter who covers it, oddly enough I don't care about it. It's none of my business. I don't know these celebrities personally, and -- stop the presses! -- don't want to. What's to "celebrate" about them? Just more irrelevancy for the democracy, when the news hole could use more news.

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  5. 7:21 You can't deny Arnold got a lot of support in the polls from California voters. He put himself in that position, so must now take the consequences. I well remember the sincerity of his comments during one of those campaigns about how unfair it was for a woman to charge him with groping her.

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  6. LA Times sheer outrage:
    http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0518-lopez-schwarzenegger-20110517,0,5372842.column

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  7. All you Arnold detractors must have never seen him in Terminator or even better Terminator 2. You'd sing a different tune if you did.

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