According to public records, he is 43 and lives in Los Angeles. Enty, it turns out, handles wills and probate. That package Tamblyn sent? Oh, and the person most likely to be Himmm, according to Enty? It all indicates that Hollywood and the media have been punked — duped by a soft-spoken probate lawyer with delusions of grandeur. And what will he say next? That way when it does happen, it looks even better. I like these little tiny victories, even if only loyal readers know.
Enty got his start writing blinds about musicians. Depending on whom one asks, celebrity blind items are addictive at best, and libel at worst. But what happens once blinds are revealed? Does the celebrity sue? Does their publicist issue a statement? Generally no, meaning that anonymous blind-item sites like Crazy Days and Nights can ostensibly function with zero limitations. Therefore, he says, no celebrities are immune to being subjects on Crazy Days and Nights.
Still, he has a code when it comes to the reveals process. Blind items have always been obscure. I'm sure each writer has their own way of writing them. With me, I like to make sure the clues are challenging enough for people. You don't want it to be too easy.
I also try to make it like a SAT question. There are several good choices, but there is only one correct choice. For the past 11 years, I have been writing blinds and telling stories about the people who do good in Hollywood, but also those that need to be exposed.
That mission has been the goal from the first several months. I wanted people to see a side of the entertainment industry that you you never see in the supermarket kiss-butt tabloids. There is no way on this earth that any of those tabloids would do anything to endanger the access to celebrities they think they need to survive. I don't care about access. I don't care about getting some nothing interview about the release of a record or a movie that tells you nothing but what you have agreed to beforehand with multiple layers of bureaucracy surrounding the celebrity.
I have been writing the site from day one. One guy. If there is ever any other contributions, they are named, whether it be Mr. X or Himmmm. The fiasco forced her husband, Desi Arnaz, to do damage control at the season premiere of I Love Lucy.
Around the same time, the pioneering scandal magazine Confidential began pushing the limits of gossip, detailing the sexual behavior and substance abuse of celebrities with little citation. How does that skinny little guy do it? Goat glands? The magazine ran amok in Hollywood until leaders of the movie community appealed to their government connections.
In , a California state Senate subcommittee investigated whether private investigators were selling stories to scandal magazines. As the art and legal boundaries of gossip reporting evolved, editors found more subdued ways to institutionalize blind items into tabloid culture.
Columnists at its longtime competitor, the New York Daily News , also became well versed in the technique. It was a requirement that lawyers look over each story before the close of the issue.
Their limited resources meant that if the legal department felt something was not adequately sourced, it was either axed or printed as a blind item. If an anonymous description can apply to only one person, that person may have grounds to sue a publication for libel.
But even though the anonymous sourcing of these stories allowed the paper to avoid legal exposure for unsubstantiated reporting, she says the section took them very seriously. For scrappy news organizations that do not have the resources to launch months-long investigations, blind items can also expedite the reporting process.
The story hit all the tabloid journalism sweet spots, combining the lurid details of a celebrity meltdown with a morally sound mission to put an end to his endangering behavior. My response: Why, if he was not the man in question, were they even calling to ask? Sheen did not respond to a request for comment. In the wake of the Weinstein revelations, many sought to air out a longstanding blind item saying that the producer had sabotaged the career of actress Gretchen Mol.
Inquiries into her relationship with Weinstein grew so frequent that Mol was finally forced to publicly refute the issue.
Mol did not respond to request for comment. On the flipside, blind items that are at once identifying but vague may generate unintended story leads. Years later, when Lauer himself was under investigation for sexual misconduct in the workplace, the paper published a story disclosing the conversation.
When combined with the distributive power of the internet, blind items often had an immediate and powerful effect.
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