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See this article at: http://entertainment.msn.com/movies/article.aspx?news=139771 Rosie O'Donnell Takes the Witness Stand Nov 6, 8:18 PM EST Rosie O'Donnell took the witness stand Thursday to defend herself against a breach-of-contract lawsuit, saying she only agreed to start her now-defunct namesake magazine after being promised full creative control by the company now suing her. O'Donnell was referring to a conversation with Daniel Brewster, chief executive officer of Gruner+Jahr USA, the company that published Rosie magazine from April 2001 through December 2002. G+J is suing O'Donnell for $100 million, alleging breach of contract for walking away. O'Donnell is countersuing for $125 million, declaring that by cutting her out of key editorial decisions, G+J had violated its contract with her. In testimony Thursday at Manhattan's State Supreme Court, O'Donnell said she was open to launching a magazine with her name on it. She said she had been impressed by the success of Oprah Winfrey's magazine, O, and was interested in a similar translation of her successful television show into print. However, she said, she came away unconvinced after her first meeting with executives of G+J. They asked for another meeting, and Brewster persuaded her to go ahead. "Mr. Brewster was quite passionate about the Democratic ideals I had espoused on my show," O'Donnell said. "He said I would add a much-needed voice to the world of women's magazines. He convinced me." She said she was impressed when Brewster told her that his father was a Democratic U.S. senator, Daniel Brewster, of Maryland. O'Donnell said one of her conditions was that she have creative control of Rosie. She said Brewster agreed and told her he would have control of the magazine's business side. On Wednesday and earlier Thursday, Brewster testified that O'Donnell's inflexibility and controlling posture were the cause of much of the tension at the magazine during its final months and ultimately the cause of its death. When O'Donnell left court Wednesday evening, she said Brewster had "threatened to ruin me, and he's trying to do it now." G+J lawyers say O'Donnell destroyed the magazine because of a fight over which cover photo should be used for a feature on actresses from the cable television show "The Sopranos." The cover, showing O'Donnell standing between two of the actresses, was never used. O'Donnell quit the magazine in mid-September 2002 following a monthslong dispute over editorial control, crystallized by the fight over the "Sopranos" cover shot. Earlier Thursday, Daniel Rubin, G+J USA's executive vice president for strategic development and planning, said O'Donnell cost his company tens of millions of dollars by walking away from Rosie. Rubin said he arrived at varying amounts by calculating two approaches — the "opportunity approach" and the "investment approach." Rubin said the opportunity approach, "if Rosie had not walked out on us," includes half his estimate of the $67 million value of the joint venture plus some $1.5 million the company would not have had to pay in severance and shutdown costs. The investment approach, Rubin said, includes the initial investment of $15 million plus some $12.3 million in additional investment, including "daily out-of-pocket expenses," free space to Rosie advertisers in other G+J magazines and other costs. See this article at: http://entertainment.msn.com/movies/article.aspx?news=116988 Blake Case Allows Escape From War Talk Mar 8, 1:47 PM EST The twists and turns of the Robert Blake murder case being played out during his nationally televised preliminary hearing could be the stuff of daytime soap opera. Some legal experts say it offers the public the same chance to escape from the drumbeat of approaching war. "People cannot sustain the intensity of being on the brink of war all the time," said Laurie Levenson, a professor at Loyola Law School. "This is the greatest diversion. It has all the aspects of a soap opera. It's a story that is easier for people to wrap their arms around, and it's not threatening." Testimony in the hearing is set to resume Monday The story is classic Hollywood melodrama. Blake, a lonely, aging celebrity, trawls Hollywood clubs looking for companionship. He takes up with a woman of dubious reputation, gets her pregnant and is suddenly confronted with the prospect of marriage and fatherhood in his sunset years. He becomes smitten with the baby, who bears a striking resemblance to him, and marries the mother reluctantly. Then he learns more and more about her past as a con artist with a criminal record. When the woman is murdered, the finger of suspicion points to Blake. After a year of investigation he is arrested, placed in solitary confinement and refused bail. Now, with Blake a haggard shadow of the man he used to be, TV cameras are focusing daily on testimony from an odd assortment of witnesses, some who say the actor spent months trying to solicit them to kill his wife. Blake's lawyer has contended that two retired stuntmen who were allegedly solicited as hit men were shady characters themselves and their testimony could be untrustworthy. Not to mention that they hardly fit the stereotype of a hired killer. Blake's wife, Bonny Lee Bakley, was found with two bullets in her head, seated in the passenger seat of Blake's car on May 4, 2001, outside a restaurant where they had just dined. His alibi? He had gone back into the restaurant to get a gun he left behind. Further complicating the scenario is the arrest of Blake's handyman-bodyguard, Earle Caldwell, charged with conspiring with his boss to kill Bakley. Court TV officials say ratings are up since they began televising the hearing gavel to gavel, and their chat rooms and message boards are alive with viewers hashing over the testimony. "The people who watch Court TV are trial buffs," said Tim Sullivan, vice president of the cable network. "They talk about the credibility of witnesses and they realize it's not an open and shut case." Part of the interest, he said, is Blake's celebrity status. "It's because Robert Blake is who he is," said Sullivan. "In the United States once you gain TV star status, it doesn't go away." Court TV senior publicist Ellie Jostad said it's nearly impossible to compare the Blake ratings with other recent trials because Court TV has not had access to the entire proceedings in some other high-profile cases. In the Wynona Ryder shoplifting case, the cameras were only allowed in for the verdict and sentencing. In the Clara Harris murder case, access was granted only for closing arguments and proceedings that followed. In some cases where there has been total access, a celebrity was not involved. "Anecdotally, we know there is a lot of interest in this case," Jostad said of the Blake hearing. University of Southern California law professor Erwin Chemerinsky agreed that the status Blake gained from his 1970s detective show "Baretta" is important. Blake also starred in the feature film "In Cold Blood," in which he played a man who committed multiple murders. "If he hadn't been 'Baretta,' no one would be interested." Chemerinsky said. "But the world is so frightening now, that it's a diversion." Among those watching the show on TV is Dominick Dunne, the novelist and columnist who has covered many trials himself. Dunne, who often is a victim's advocate, said he initially shrugged off the case because he felt the victim was so unsympathetic. "It seemed to me death was in her future," Dunne said in a phone interview, "and it was going to happen one way or the other. But I have recently become riveted by the Robert Blake case. "There's something surreal about it," he said. "He's lost all this weight and the hair is white. He's haggard. ... It's like he's playing his last, greatest role and he's going to make the most of it." |
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