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

 

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?")

Hey Old Timer Gossip:Both stars from Hart To Hart are cancer survivors

Publication: Globe
Date: 31 May 2010

Fresh trash on Thursdays! The Globe is definitely going for the Hey Old Timer gossip crowd. Robert Wagner, who will turn 80 this year, had a skin cancer removed from his face. Stefanie Powers, twelve years his junior, had part of her lung removed, which sounds more serious. The cover story does not make any statement of "fighting for life" or "brave last days", so neither Wagner or Powers go onto the watch lists.

Best wishes to both.