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i remember my best girlfriend's grandmother laying on the couch reading Confidential Mmagazine and smoking Pall Mall cigaretes. we were too young at the time to know what the magazine was about, but knew it was bad (not compared to what's out there today) as it came in a brown envelope delivered to her gram's house.
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Added: 14th May 2008
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Posted by: Naomi on 2008-05-14
Confidential was a magazine founded in December 1952 by Robert Harrison. It was a real pioneer in scandal, gossip, and exposé, featuring what Newsweek called 'sin and sex with a seasoning of right wing politics'.
It's believed that Harrison was inspired by the live televised covering of the Kefauver hearings. To gather material for his new magazine, Harrison established an organization called Hollywood Research Inc., operated by his niece and her husband, which, fifty years later was described by a British celebrity interviewer as:
'a spy network of hack journalists, private investigators, waiters, call girls, and $75 a-week starlets who were on the rosters of the major studios and were going nowhere except to bed with anyone who might boost their careers.'
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Interesting stuff!
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BTW, Confidential was sued so many times it went out of business.
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