So, when did Geraldo sell out, anyway? Before or after he got divorced from Vonnegut’s daughter? Certainly before the Al Capone’s Safe Fizzle.
I think it was around the time he changed his name from Gerald.
Outside the gates of Graceland, in the days following the death of Elvis Presley. He launched into a mawkish anecdote about some event when he felt a personal connection to “the King,” and thus confirmed that he was less interested in being a journalist than in being a television personality.
Well how about that. There is something more foolish than an old man in love: an old man in love with himself.
Perfect.
I think there was a time when he called himself Jerry Rivers.
Geraldo Rivera, imma let you finish but Jack Lalanne had the best old man body OF ALL TIME!
Admittedly, he’s not bad for his age.
He certainly looks better than Dennis Farina.
So an old dog can teach us nude tricks?
With Gerald, 70 is the new creepy.
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He was always sleazy and self aggrandizing, but Capone’s vault was his shark jump. The Satanic Panic remains his most disgusting moment imo and his most harmful as it ultimately destroyed lives by convincing (admittedly gullible and stupid) people there really was a satanic underground and that “recovered memories” were all valid.
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Agreed on all counts, but was Capone’s vault really his fault? I don’t remember all of the details of it, just that it was EMPTY. Right?
Capone’s vault turned out to be empty cellars IIRC. It was they hype around it and the build up as they eventually opened up empty cellars. It showed Geraldo as a salesman, not a newsman.
So, who has the better old-guy torso, Geraldo or Roger Daltrey?
He has less hair from the neck down than he has on his upper lip. That’s something I didn’t need to know.
So… odds on the timing of sex tape release, title and who his costar(s) will be?
He was a consumer affairs reporter for WABC in New York. Did a great expose of Willowbrook State School. He spoke at my HS graduation (pretty standard Follow Your Dream boilerplate as I remember). I guess he later decided to become famous. Too bad, that Willowbrook story was some good journalism.