Robert Wagner ... Alec Baldwin

Are you buying BOTH coincidences Baldwin is pushing? The gun was mysteriously loaded with live rounds AND it was faulty and went off on its own, with no one pulling the trigger? Hm.

 Time has passed, but some things have changed, even in Hollywood.

The only way to learn the truth, it seems, is to bring negligence charges and get him to tell that story to a jury to determine credibility.

Imagine if investigators back in 1981 had been more diligent in investigating Natalie Woods' death, there wouldn't be the perception today Wagner got away with murder.

That SUV in the Waukesha parade? Would you believe me if I told you it just ... malfunctioned at the most inopportune time? Would you believe it more if the accused driver was a handsome rich actor?

I wouldn't. Own your deadly actions, or defend to yourself credibly. No excuses for the upper classes; what kind of message of safety is sent to workers still on sets?  How about, workers' lives matter?

Be skeptical, America...

#LibertyAndJusticeForAll

#SabbaticalBreak

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Added: In my opinion, Robert Wagner is/was (he's 91 now, not prosecutable in practicality) a switch hitter, iykwim, as a young man coming up during Hollywood's Golden Age. He caddied for the stars at the golf club and later hung with them as pals at the track and on their boats/yachts. Heavily bearded times, Wagner admits, with so much behind the scenes still arranged for those "under contract" by the studio bosses during what turned out to be their waning days...

(Early Hollywood history is fascinating -- how the industry shaped America, as well as a study of how Jews dominated in film production the way early Irish did local politics and public service jobs; early Greek immigrants did food joints and restaurants, etc.).

My former books editor at The Palm Beach Post in South Florida Scott Eyman  chronicled those times and highlighted some key players in his earlier (better) books. (Mary Pickford, John Ford, Ernst Lubitch -- what a touch that man had!; the Lion of Hollywood Louis B. Mayer, etc.) Note: I didn't say all the power players in the early industry were Jews, plenty of peripheral players like Marlene Dietrich say, were just very Jew-connected, nttawwt...

Eyman later shifted his academic reporting style to co-writing with Robert Wagner three books, two biographies and a memoir of place. 

My friend, my lunch buddy, my editor (!) essentially sold out and shot a quick bestseller up the NYT book charts based on the strength of Wagner's popularity in the old-lady book-buying public.  He helped sell Wagner's story of the night his wife -- twice-over  -- died  off his boat after an evening of heavy drinking with Christopher Walken.  You know the allegations if you follow news stories and read widely who said what.  If you can think like a non-swimmer, drunk and in the dark, it's not likely she really wanted to take herself ashore, or into the water.

(The disinterested witnesses who later reported hearing a woman's voice calling for help, and the Captain's later corrected story kind of tipped things for me...)

But of course, her husband was never charged; Walken and the Captain never testified under oath and the story never added up . (All that bruising on a drowned body...?)

Inho, again, Wagner was a switch who used Woods' stronger talent and fame, but never achieved more than B-list work -- not that there's anything wrong with that, if your wife can accept your homosexual dalliances too.  Woods put up with a lot, I suspect...

Wagner went on to sell himself as one of Hollywood's leading men in his relationships off screen and on. Nttawwt. Just miscategorized as straight memoir instead of that gauzy romantic memoir-fiction-lite Hollywood was better known for during its storytelling days when happy endings were most profitable before the industry began to turn out the highly profitable blockbusters that started with Jaws and has morphed into repackaging old product, especially those simple comic-book superheros characters...

Feeding the global market, the stories being sold by Hollywood and the media today are dictated by international tastes. Hence the "guilty White America" schtick that sells so well except at home.

I don't think enough people will remain loyal to helping Baldwin and the people working the Rust set hide the facts and bury the dead with compensation. 

(Btw, is Alice Sebold going 50-50 off the profits of her rape bestseller with the wrongly accused man who served 16 years off her false testimony? Apologies are nice, but she profited off a fiction narrative that cost another part of his life and his most precious freedom.)

 True justice has not yet been served but we wait in joyful hope...

Let's not wait for Heaven or End Times to put our talents to service in the name of finding truth and justice here on Earth? 'Tis the reason for the season and all that, the prince of peace born in poverty in a stable to light up the world for the rest of us stumbling in darkness. 

Just keeping the lights on in our own Dark Ages is all that's asked, of the sighted and the blind using all resources at our disposal.

Human beings and so much in the natural world are not disposable though. When we see the artifice turned deadly, shouldn't it be our human obligation to light it up and put a shine on reality? Not hundreds of years later, today?

More profitable to wait, of course, but in their own times, as lot of people have turned their talents into the cause of turning profits at any price... Sad. I can see selling out when you're younger and hungry, but old age should be especially a time of questioning, gathering facts, sowing justice.

"Whatsoever things are true... Think on these things?"

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Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things. Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me--put it into practice.

~Philippians 4:8