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Judith Regan Died For Your Sins

"The media went on a rampage, blaming me for the whole O.J. book debacle. They came out, guns blazing, and tried to kill me. I felt like Faye Dunaway's character in the final scene of Bonnie and Clyde. Bullets flying in every direction," former publisher Judith Regan writes in her hotly-anticipated Harper's Bazaar profile of herself. You know, the one where she talks about having sung 'My Way!' It's on newsstands now, and it is all about how she "took the blows." In fact, this phrase comes up several times. In one instance she writes that something happened "after a month of taking the blows without protection." Shots! Blows! Attempts on Judith's very life! What is fact here and what's hyperbole? Does Judith Regan believe in distinguishing between the two? More »

2:31 PM on Tue Nov 20 2007
By Emily Gould
3,979 views, 54 comments

Latest by schmerd: @Colonel Mustard: wow, service-y (on both the Bonnie and Clyde and St. Sebastian refs) and insightful. Someone give this person a commie. more »