Babble Hushed
Tom Loerch: “Hairs: Neatly trimmed/naired. Shoes: En pointe. Hobbies: Modelling and flogging.”
Bruno would not comment on what may be a hollow victory. Having lost the case by default for failing to respond to Bruno’s suit, Babble owes Bruno $100,000. But “Malone,” Babble’s publisher, told me he and his magazine have only $4,000 in now-frozen assets, though a collection agency is hunting for more. Malone insists he could have prevailed in court–Bruno sent him the pictures, after all–but was done in by lawyers. “See, I’ve gone through eight lawyers,” he explained. “See, I’m swimming in this legalese. I can’t get a lawyer who can work with me financially. So I’m dissolving it. They can take the money that’s frozen in the account. I just want to get rid of it.”
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After a meeting in one city, I drive two hours to another for three more meetings.
“Well, yeah,” Reardon said. “They wouldn’t be mean to me directly, but they wouldn’t understand where I was coming from. Religion is such an odd subject in newspapers. We never know how to handle it. The idea of faith is hard to understand among reporters. By nature reporters are skeptical, and skeptics by definition have a hard time with faith.”
My briefcase? My story in the newspaper? Me on the telephone, talking to the office?
