The Kathy Scruggs scandal
Just another example of how ironic Hollywood productions are.
shareIt's even stronger when your realize the guy who made SHATTERED GLASS wrote this movie.
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MovieChat Forums > Richard Jewell (2019) Discussion > The Kathy Scruggs scandal
When it concerns a journalist, all of a sudden the media has a problem with movies twisting the truth.
shareHow did they twist the truth on her? Did they claim she spit when she always swallowed?
shareYeah, something like that.
shareWuz she dat hot in real life?
shareShe wasn't what I would call hot, she was a big haired blond, a little chunky... but apparently a party girl that was into booze and everything else. She killed herself with a drug overdose when the facts of her sex for stories started to come out.
shareThere's a pretty good history of film critics for newspapers hating the "falsity" of movies about newspapers -- especially when newspapers are cast as villains.
Absence of Malice is an example that comes to mind.
We don't know what she really did, either way.
And oddly, the FBI man whom she "does" in this film is a fictional character. Wha?
Nobody's that hot in real life.
shareI know right.
I was thinking the whole time. Surprised this is a bio-epic and they have a reporters history being posted like that. Now I found out of course they made the whole thing up under a real person’s name from a film against slander.