This week's Natalie Wood stories.

Publications: Globe, National Enquirer

Date: 12 Dec 2011

Let us recall that the Natalie Wood story was the exclusive possession of the low rent Examiner before the case was re-opened, but now that it has been re-opened, the other, and more well heeled Wicked Step Sisters are running with the story.  Here are the headlines.

• National Enquirer: Only in the Enquirer
  Christopher Walken phone call revealed
  Natalie Wood sex secret
  What cops were never told
• Globe: Natalie Wood case solved!
  World exclusive
  30 years after shocking death
  New evidence: her last words reveal what REALLY happened
  Plus: Natalie's secret diaries
  Are they telling the truth?
  Pictures of Robert Wagner and Christopher Walken

Dig up a corpse, why don'tcha? The re-opening of the Natalie Wood case makes the mainstream.

Publications: People, National Enquirer

Date: 5 Dec. 2011

 

I have little respect for the low rent Examiner, but they deserve credit as the only magazine that was calling for the re-opening of the Natalie Wood case over the past few years. Now the big guns get in on the act, People and the National Enquirer.  Here are the headlines.

• People: Natalie Wood: How did she really die?
• National Enquirer: Natalie Wood bombshell
  Robert Wagner's cover-up revealed! - boat captain

 

Kick SEVERAL corpses, why don'tcha? Paul Newman's secret affairs.

Publication: National Examiner

Date: 14 Nov. 2011

Welcome to gossip hell, Paul Newman!  The low rent Examiner caters to its target demographic with some seriously old Hey Old Timer Gossip.  They say Newman, who was just about too gorgeous for words in his younger days, had secret affairs with Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor and Natalie Wood.  I count Hey Old Timer Gossip as trash about anyone famous before I graduated high school.  With this foursome, all their careers got started before I was born and I'm old.

Dig up a corpse, why don'tcha? Re-open Natalie Wood's murder case! Again!

Publication: National Examiner
Date: 24 Oct. 2011

The low rent Examiner calls for the re-opening of the case dealing with Natalie Wood's death, which they say is murder. People with really good memories (better than mine, for example) will recall the low rent Examiner is re-cycling this story from June of 2010 and who knows how many times before I started writing this silly blog. I wouldn't have remembered except the Blogger software let me know the "Natalie Wood" label already existed, though not "Natalie Wood 2011".

The new detail in the headlines is the first cop on the scene asking for the case to be re-opened.

UPDATE: It's a month later and the case is being re-opened. I'm giving the low rent Examiner a Scoop of the Week after the fact and a confirmation.  The owner of the boat is the one currently blabbing and he's fingering Robert Wagner. The cops are currently saying they don't buy it.

 

Dig up a corpse, why don'tcha?Re-open the Natalie Wood case!

Publication: National Examiner
Date: 21 June 2010

Several stories this week have made it necessary to create a new label, "Dig up a corpse, why don'tcha?" I have also gone back and re-labeled some older stories. The common link in these stories is the idea that some dead celebrity was in fact murdered and there needs to be a new investigation. So far, all these requests for re-openings have been from the three meanest tabloids, the Examiner, Enquirer and Globe.

This week, the Examiner suggests that new evidence in the Natalie Wood case could shed some light on this very cold case, given that Ms. Wood died in 1981. Also on the cover are pictures of her husband Robert Wagner and her co-star in her last film Christopher Walken.

(Aside: Ms. Wood in a publicity still from Gypsy, is using the pose I like to call "Are you staring at my butt, and if not, why not?")