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Perper Goes Hollywood

By Tony Ortega
Feb 23, 2007

Reuniting Soon Does Anna Nicole Smith corrupt everything she touches, even in death, or is she just a magnet for sleaze? Everybody who crossed paths with the late pin-up and reality TV star seems to want to make a buck on her celebrity. Personal attorney Howard K. Stern is looking...
Pucker Up, Ricky

By Tony Ortega
Feb 6, 2007

Freedom Fighter and CNN guinea pig Rick Sanchez goes at it with a subversive Hollywood type, one Charlize Theron. In a once-in-a-lifetime fake offer, Theron, one of the smokingest women in the world, offers to make out with the former Miami motormouth. Like a story of actual substance and worth,...
Jaco Incorporated Strikes Back

And gives our ankles a good bite

By Tony Ortega
Dec 7, 2006

Let me begin this column by turning it over to a letter by Stephen M. Carlisle that was posted at the official Jaco Pastorius website and that we can only assume is in the mail to us: This office represents Jaco Pastorius Inc. I have been forwarded the article written...
Hot Tracks

Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Tri-Rail

By Tony Ortega
Nov 9, 2006

It's been a few months since Michael Mayo, in his South Florida Sun-Sentinel column, referred to Tri-Rail as a failure, which is far too long since he's taken a swipe. I wish he'd do it again soon. I figure the more Mayo labels the commuter rail line a flop, the...
McMahan Family Values

He wriggles, squirms, and throws money around, but "H" can't make the tale about his seduction of "W" disappear.

By Tony Ortega
Oct 12, 2006

After publishing Kelly Cramer's remarkable story "Daddy's Girl" two weeks ago, the most frequent question I've been asked about the tale of a Wall Street millionaire who married his own daughter is: How could Linda Schutt, a grown woman with a PhD in psychology, succumb to the seduction attempts of...

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