 Tabloid Adolescent |
 Pat Doyle, the world's greatest police reporter.  Nicky and Me. |
 "And then I plucked him from obscurity..." Connie Chung and Peter Brennan  "Who's been sleeping in my bag?" Rafael directs a re-enactment of a famous murder. |
 There goes the neighborhood. Steve Dunleavy visits the Amityville Horror house |
 The Booze Brothers, Burt Kearns and Wayne Darwen, 10:00 a.m., Washington D.C., 1990.  Over the road. The Phoenix Park pub, formerly Tommy McGrath's, formerly the Racing Club. |
 "Who's the joker who put the superglue in my Mai tai?" |
 The bag no one would claim. Gordon Elliot on an airport conveyor belt, Alaska, 1989. |
 Maureen O'Boyle kisses a moose. |
 "Of course I'm not making it up. Why would I lie?" The Prince of Darkness in his den. New York City, 1989. (Spot the Elvis photo)  Mrs. Letterman's Top Ten Reasons To take Your Lithium. Number two: Margaret Ray did most of the interview standing on her head. And the number one reason to take your lithium: Ten years later, she ended it all by sitting in front of a speeding train. |
 "Dan, Tom, Peter - Eat your hearts out!" Maury Povich at the Brandenburg Gate East Berlin, on Friday, November 19, 1989, the weekend the wall came down.  Get this man to a telethon. Even if he wasn't in the book, I'd still use this picture. |
 Raf drives, Ken Fuhr shoots. Picture taker hangs off driver's side.  The Censored Showgirl Shoot. Maureen O'Boyle had all the tapes and photos destroyed - almost. The future anchorwoman surrounded by Kearns and Darwen, surrounded by Bill Cassera and Ken Fuhr, tabloid's greatest camera crew. |
 The Prince of Darkness at the grave of the King. Little did he know that Elvis was standing there watching (see the guy with the cane)  Rebel without a Coors: It's 1989, Hollywood Week at A Current Affair, and outside the Griffith observatory, Wayne Darwen interviews the ghost of his idol. |
 Eat your heart out, Elton John. Peter Brennan, the father of tabloid television, Melrose Avenue, 1991.  Pardners. Abramovitz and Kearns at the compound in the old days of the typewriter (spot the Elvis picture) |
 I know I'm forgetting something." Eames Yates on the job. |
 Tabloid Wedding: Peter Brennan marries Nancy Gershwin, Coldwater Canyon, 1991. From left: LisaRiva (with original A Current Affair reporter Mary Hughes behind them), ACA co-founder J.B. Blunck, Audrey Lavin, Gordon Elliott, the groom and bride, (with producer Whitney Trilling behind them), Jerry Burke, Wayne Darwen, Burt Kearns, Rafael Abramovitz and Dennis O'Brien. Oh yeah, eioght years later, Brennan would marry the woman on the far left.  Now she knows how Pee Wee felt. Diane Dimond, busted for exposing...Michael Jackson? |
 A frowner, a downer, and a clowner. Three Stooges, back from the Ball of Twine.  "What was in that drink? I don't have a hangover, but my ass is killing me!" Me and Gordon Elliot in his Tribeca loft. Don't ask. |
 Raf cruises the Vegas Strip, looking for a place to park his hat.  Hard Copy scoundrels Burt Kearns and Eames Yates arrive at Tomy McGrath's bar (circa 1993) in attempt to destablize the competition at A Current Affair. Kearns looks on in horror as Eames tries to coax producer (and Dunleavy wrangler) Shannah Goldner to the dark side. |
 Spot the psycho. Wayne Darwen with the Rev. Ronnie Dickerman, David Berkowitz and Maury Terry. Yes, that David Berkowitz.  Spot the psycho. Inside Edition's John Tomlin, Geraldo Rivera, A Current Affair's John Terenzio and Wayne Darwen. Yes, that Geraldo Rivera. |
 Who cut the check? Steve Dunleavy interviews the Buttafuocos while attorney Dominic Barbara passes answers... and gas.  "Oh, Ian, stop, you're just too funny!" ACA executive producer Bill ridley and his boss Ian Rae at Tommy McGrath's. |
 You think that's funny? You should see your hat." A Current Affair executive producer Bill Ridley, with reporters David Lee Miller and Bill McGowan. At Tommy McGrath's bar.  Gotcha! Rober Kardashian moseys away with his pal O.J. Simpson's garment bag. |
 Alison takes one for the team at the O.J. trial. "One of the cameramen hit me with the back of the camera. He said to me, 'Get out the way.' and I wasn't going to get out the way and this is the result."  Jeff Greenfield's Maalox moment. "This is not the way to do journalism. And I feel very sorry for you if you have any hope for a career in it." |
 "Hi Jeff! Are you hiring?" Hi-8 Joe, aka Video Joe, aka Joe Guidry, the next generation.  Hello! Goodbye! The censored photo from Alison's 1994 Hello! Magazine shoot. |
 Staging area for the Stonewall Parade? No. Rafael Abramovitz on the Detour shoot. He's got a truckin' convoy!  Are you sure Clint Eastwood started this way?" Rafael and Peter Brennan in the desert, on the Detour shoot. |
 The Prince of the City. Steve Dunleavy looking cool.  "Hmmmm... maybe I should start a courtroom show. Nahh." |
"Here now the news..." Alison Holloway
and Steve Dunleavy do a Fred & Ginger for Dancing In The Dark,
the great lost newsmagazine. |
 Peter Brennan meets Sam Peter Holloway Kearns.  Tabloid cliché: Tabloid Daddy and Tabloid Baby, crossing Abbey Road. |
