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ONE WAY TABLOIDS GET INFO. Today I got an unexpected look at one way in which some tabloids pursue stories. I got a call this morning from a reporter for STAR magazine. He said that I might be surprised to know that a particular TV actress lived near me. He identified her by name, and wanted to know if I could confirm a rumor that she was engaged. He’d found my address as being one near hers, and had gotten my number from a phone directory that lists numbers by address.
Later in the call he revealed that the address he had for the actress was two years old, and might no longer be current. I said I’d never heard that she lived in this neighborhood, and could give him no information on the subject, which is an accurate statement.
The thing is, if I had heard anything of the kind, I wouldn’t be comfortable telling a reporter, who evidently was seeking to publish information that the actress herself has not yet chosen to publish at this time. He seemed like a nice guy, but I just don’t think what he was doing was all that cool.
He asked me if this wasn’t the wildest call I’d ever gotten. I said, “No, I just didn’t realize this is how these things were done.”
