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The Dog Dialed 911
The Smoking Gun
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Published: Jan 01, 2006
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Non Fiction
The Dog Dialed 911
The Smoking Gun
Remember James Frey? He was cruising along, conning Oprah and millions of book buyers with his “non-fiction” memoir, “A Million Little Pieces.” Then The Smoking Gun went digging — and produced evidence that didn’t make him or Oprah jump on her couch.
That was, for many, their introduction to The Smoking Gun. Veterans know that this website — TheSmokingGun.com — has been serving up nasty stuff since 1997. Correction: important nasty stuff. They scour police blotters. They file Freedom of Information suits. And then they serve up….Nick Nolte’s arrest photo. Noble work, lads!
Now the editors have thrown together their greatest hits in an oversized paperback that is required reading for the cynical among us — and a great gift for anyone who does not believe that Us Magazine and Fox News are definitive news sources.
Just consider what’s in these pages:
— an FBI undercover web site that asks pervs to indicate what age they like their boys
— a letter from a lawyer asking for a postponement because he’s just had “dick surgery.”
— Kobe Bryant telling Colorado cops how he likes to have orgasm. That is, what he’s doing and what she’s doing….
— fan letters to Mariah Carey
— exactly what Roman Polanski did to that 13-year-old all those years ago
— why Marvin Gaye and Jimi Hendrix were lousy soldiers
— Jessica Simpson’s book proposal
— Diana Ross’s version of the alphabet after her arrest for drunk driving
— George Bush’s dental records from his National Guard years
— George Bush’s birthday note to Ken Lay
— Mike Tyson’s certificate of graduation from a Substance Abuse Program
— and my personal favorite: a police sketch of a naked man who wore only a mask over his eyes (sorry, ladies, it’s from the neck up)
Clearly, the stocking stuffer of the year.
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