They're kind of being schmucks about this. There was never any real allegation that Letterman didn't "keep things professional" during work hours, just snide insinuations based on the fact that he has a couch in his office -- which I'm sure Kimmel does, too.
The fact is, the two situations are almost exactly the same -- unmarried men who started relationships with underlings, possibly while in relationships with other people.
No one cares that much about Kimmel's highjinks, because a) he's a big dumb galoot who formerly hosted "The Man Show"; b) he hasn't interviewed Clinton or Obama or expressed views that made conservatives angry; and c) no one cares that much about Kimmel, period. But if the media continue to go after Letterman without criticizing Kimmel, that's just hypocritical. Either they're both power-tripping leches who created an unfair work environment, or neither of them did anything worth carping about for weeks on end.
While the relationship may draw comparisons to David Letterman's recent revelations, the insider says, "during work hours, they keep things professional."
Unlike Letterman, who was just cold fucking his assistant ON SET during the middle of rehearsals.
@bytememehard: Actually there was a wee scandal a few years back involving Playboy mag's Q&A section when a guy asked an editor how he could talk his girlfriend into having sex with him. The editor said "Don't say anything, just cold cock the bitch." Quelle outrage and cancelled subscriptions over that and I've always remembered it for some reason.
talk show hosts and their employees now account for 4 of the probably 20 million people in the country who have had or are having sex with a co-worker. i'm shattered.
I haven't read any of these but do people really think a book on all-time swindler Bernie Madoff, his life, the culture that spawned him, and the culture that enabled him is not worth a book? People write books about their bad relationships with their dads everyday... You think this is an unworthy subject? (Maybe one of the Madoff sons will write about his bad relationship with his dad and sell hundreds of thousands of copies...)
@Edward Lionheart: a book on how we as a culture got to the point where a madoff was possible, yes. a book about wrinkly, moany, small-penisey old people sex? no, no, three times no!
I would estimate that the advances for all the Madoff books probably total about a million. Definitely not more than that.
Andrew Kirtzman ("Betrayal") was the ex-CBS reporter who wrote a book about Rudy. He probably got the most of the group -- a little more than 250K from HarperCollins.
Sheryl Weinstein (the Bernie's small penis woman) got a bit more than 100K. She went with St. Martins and they can be really cheap with their advances.
The others are published by a gaggle of imprints: Wiley, Portfolio, etc. I figure at most 100K-200K max a writer.
They all had to push hard to come out as fast as possible. Kirtzman "won" and came out first.
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The fact is, the two situations are almost exactly the same -- unmarried men who started relationships with underlings, possibly while in relationships with other people.
No one cares that much about Kimmel's highjinks, because a) he's a big dumb galoot who formerly hosted "The Man Show"; b) he hasn't interviewed Clinton or Obama or expressed views that made conservatives angry; and c) no one cares that much about Kimmel, period. But if the media continue to go after Letterman without criticizing Kimmel, that's just hypocritical. Either they're both power-tripping leches who created an unfair work environment, or neither of them did anything worth carping about for weeks on end.
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Unlike Letterman, who was just cold fucking his assistant ON SET during the middle of rehearsals.
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Andrew Kirtzman ("Betrayal") was the ex-CBS reporter who wrote a book about Rudy. He probably got the most of the group -- a little more than 250K from HarperCollins.
Sheryl Weinstein (the Bernie's small penis woman) got a bit more than 100K. She went with St. Martins and they can be really cheap with their advances.
The others are published by a gaggle of imprints: Wiley, Portfolio, etc. I figure at most 100K-200K max a writer.
They all had to push hard to come out as fast as possible. Kirtzman "won" and came out first.
Time for me to work. Add it up yourself.