We Can Bury Anyone: Inside Hollywood’s Smear Machine
In Hollywood, having an enemy is a major part of the game. In this cutthroat town, where egos are as oversized as the egos of the narcissistic moguls who run the studios, the scriptwriters, directors, and actors are just pawns in a game of power chess. The stakes are high, and the fall is almost always brutal.
The Red Phone
In the early 1990s, a mysterious phone number, known as the Red Phone, buzzed with ominous regularity. When it rang, any number of A-list celebrities, from Hollywood’s finest to rock stars, would pick up the line, not knowing who was on the other end or what was about to be destroyed. It didn’t matter if it was a cursed marriage, a questionable decision, or a fling that got out of hand – the information was waiting, black or white.
Smear operators, like Woodward and Bernstein, but not quite as si…”
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