News from The Smoking Gun

Dear Friends:


The doctor Fox Television has entrusted to provide "psychological counseling" to contestants on "The Swan," its creepy plastic surgery makeover show, got her Ph.D. from a California correspondence school that was described this week by congressional investigators as an unaccredited "diploma mill." Story at:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0514041swan1.html


The way Courtney Love sees it, her recent New York City assault arrest came because "police have a conspiracy against rocker chicks." It had absolutely nothing to do with the bloodied fan who had Love's mic stand planted in his melon:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0514044love1.html


In an amusing footnote to its billion-dollar bottom line, "Friends" was once trashed as "not very entertaining, clever, or original" and its characters termed "smug, superficial, and self-absorbed," according to NBC's original in-house research report. A copy of the confidential (and very entertaining) network document is at:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0510041friends1.html


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Regards,

Your pals at TSG




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