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When I heard that Rupert Murdoch’s fourth marriage was not going to last long enough to get to the seven-year itch, it brought back vivid and somewhat unsettling memories of his previous marital split from the remarkable Wendi Deng.
Why I would ever have anything to do with Rupert Murdoch’s marital problems is a valid question and one I asked myself at the time.
Murdoch had married Deng, more than 30 years his junior, in June 1999. In June 2013, when the world learned that the marriage had foundered, The Hollywood Reporter had not picked up the news with the speed that our editor at the time deemed sufficient. As she gazed at the editorial staff gathered around a conference table that morning, her displeasure seemed to lower the temperature in the room by at least 15 degrees. “How can we advance this story?” she asked.
When I heard that Rupert Murdoch’s fourth marriage was not going to last long enough to get to the seven-year itch, it brought back vivid and somewhat unsettling memories of his previous marital split from the remarkable Wendi Deng.
Why I would ever have anything to do with Rupert Murdoch’s marital problems is a valid question and one I asked myself at the time.
Murdoch had married Deng, more than 30 years his junior, in June 1999. In June 2013, when the world learned that the marriage had foundered, The Hollywood Reporter had not picked up the news with the speed that our editor at the time deemed sufficient. As she gazed at the editorial staff gathered around a conference table that morning, her displeasure seemed to lower the temperature in the room by at least 15 degrees. “How can we advance this story?” she asked.
- 7/1/2022
- by Kim Masters
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Vito Corleone, Tony Montana, Tony Soprano, Walter White. These are a few of the crime lords that have been immortalized in film and television. But before these characters were created, there was Marvel Comics’ Wilson Fisk more commonly known as the Kingpin. He was created by writer Stan Lee and artist John Romita Sr. and first appeared in Amazing Spider-Man #50 (1967), which was two years before the publication of Mario Puzo’s novel The Godfather. After a host of colorful villains, like Green Goblin, Octopus, Chameleon, and Vulture, Kingpin seemed gritty and realistic. With his pudginess, he resembled 1870s New York crime boss William Tweed. Kingpin is a compelling villain because he is a self-made man with no special powers, gadgets, or inherited wealth and has presented problems for multiple heroes. Many comics villains are deranged lunatics, but he is just a businessman, who isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty.
- 9/10/2013
- by Logan Dalton
- SoundOnSight
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