I still find this entire episode deeply creepy but can't quite work out why.

Sadness for anyone who dies young is natural.
Media provoked hypocrisy is another thing entirely.

I can understand your sentiments JK but what i cant understand is why it deserves so much coverage? 4 hours of live televison? Aren't there more important issues? I suppose thats all down to Max. His wok is done. Lets hope this is the end of the matter. Some how i doubt it when there's money to be made.

the end ?

..just the beginning of the second act.

hmmm methinks the media deliberately want to take our minds off more serious matters.

I'm sounding like BR here!

david wrote:
hmmm methinks the media deliberately want to take our minds off more serious matters.

I'm sounding like BR here!

That's what the Goody - Clifford saga has been about. A smokescreen to divert everyones attention from far more serious issues.

Whatever happened in the 'Mad Woman With Hammer By Jade's Bed Case'? No CCTV footage was ever released...no police investigation...nothing.

A smokescreen by whom ? Max Clifford ?

No; the whole thing was and will continue to be a money-making exercise.

Books, TV programs and memorials (statues, concerts etc.) are being planned - as well as a movie.

I remember one news report saying the woman was released without charge. That's most likely why we heard nothing more.

I also heard about these initiatives. The movie now seems likely and Clifford has been in talks with US movie makers.

Although reality TV is common in the USA, no one person has had anything like the Goody Factor and it is thought that the movie will have a new market.

JK who played a Clifford type bloke (Waxie?) in Vile Pervert has been mentioned as a possible candidate for the Max role.

I have a crystal ball and its not looking good. "In this weeks OK magazine, Life Without Jade- Jack Tweeds emotional story." YAWN:sick:

Jack will continue his mourning and emotional stories until his next appearance in court as we all know he only married her to try and keep his violent self out of prison.

I'm sure it was the same hearse that carried Diana's body to Althrop. In fact it looked like they had tried to create the same effect and indeed..it was a mini-Diana funeral.

Perhaps I'm being cynical but is the reason she is buried in an accesible plot is so it can become a shrine and generate more media interest.

(Incidently..I know a woman who went onto that little island that Diana is meant to be buried and she is was so marshy it would have almost been impossible to bury a coffin there. Where is she ?)

Michael Parkinson on Ms Goody- interesting.

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7987426.stm

david wrote:
Michael Parkinson on Ms Goody- interesting.

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7987426.stm

Yes I loved this in Newswipe - a brilliant chunk of Brooker.