Geraldo, seen here in Action Newsman mode.
While in town busting open the police shooting of 15-year-old Brandon McCloud, the crack sleuths at Geraldo At-Large must have picked up a copy of Scene. The cover story was “Cheating Death,” the tale of a cross-dressing Nazi serial killer. It had all the elements of a Geraldo Rivera exclusive: cross dressing, Nazism. There was just a little problem with the “exclusive” part; luckily for Geraldo, no one reads us.
The producers decided to swipe the story for themselves, and now “Cheating Death” — only with much better hair and a strong smell of Jim Beam on the breath — will air on Fox sometime in January. — Jared Klaus
This article appears in Dec 20-26, 2006.