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Whatever happened to Gidget?
By adamg on Fri, 01/30/2009 - 4:58pm
Weird: Seems Peter Blute's been doing radio spots for Massport, the authority he headed until he went on a three-hour tour. Heslam of the Herald not only calls him out, she posts a copy of the infamous photo, still with a discrete black bar hiding some of what Gidget's got.
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The Best Part of the Photo
It has to be the two astonished guys in green shirts to Giget's right.
Their expressions are priceless ... as in "wow, did I just see that???? Sweet!"
Amazing how much that woman seeking beads looks like Jessica Hesslam ...
Background on the incident
Here.
And this is why Virginia Buckingham was in charge of Massport on 9/11.
Ah, Virginia, we hardly knew
Ah, Virginia, we hardly knew ye... Massport boss was a great place for the Governor's press secretary. Another nationwide search, as they say.
IMDB
IMDB gives her credits for "stunts" 1995-1998 (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0161433/):
I'm wondering whether "stunts" sometimes means body double for nude and sex scenes.
Um
I'm wondering whether "stunts" sometimes means body double for nude and sex scenes.
I guess I was out of the theater during the nude scene in the Brady Bunch Movie. Perhaps that's for the best.
Is this the only town in America
that didn't find it curious that the Herald photographer just happened to be there? If you dislike Blute's policies, fine. But this crap just results in more bag job dirty tricks. Adam, I promise you that for $100, I could find someone at the Foxy Lady who would flash you in front of your place of business. You would be as guilty as Blute was. We DO get the government we deserve.
As Some News Photographers Used to Say
"f/8 and be there."
I first heard that credo attributed to Stanley Forman, who, coincidentally, won three Pulitzers while at the Boston Herald American.
Forman's two single Pulitzer images -- people falling as a fire escape collapsed as a firefighter was trying to reach them, and a very powerful image of a US flag being used as a lance to attack a black man at an anti-busing demonstration -- are both the result of, among other things, being there and snapping at a decisive moment. It does happen.
One of the comments on yesterday's Herald piece accused the photog of the Gidget Churchill image of paying her to flash. I think that's highly unlikely. I think more likely is that the Herald was actively investigating possible improprieties with public funds (or something like that), or that they had received a tip about a cruise that was alleged to be improper. Even randomness/serendipity in being there seems more likely to me than the photog conspiring to contrive the scene.
It's also conceivable that Churchill had been paid by someone other than the photog to cause a scandal, without the photog's knowledge. But I think most likely is that the flash was just a flash. Flashing by women partying on boats is very common in some circles. Flashing just doesn't often grab public attention for a career-ending scandal.
In summary of this late-night rambling: I don't find it too curious that a Herald photog got that shot. Flashing happens without conspiracy, and a lot of shots are gotten simply because a news photog spends his/her life trying to be there.