I posted yesterday about how I thought the Marilyn Monroe sex tape story was bogus. Defamer.com joined in last night. Now the story is starting to pick up speed: http://www.enews20.com/news_The_Marilyn_Monroes_Secret_Sex_Tape_Hoax_07311.html
By tomorrow Drudge will be laughing at the media for buying this obvious hogwash, lol.
Yesterday I posted here pointing out that the Marilyn Monroe sex tape story is BS. Now Defamer.com is saying the same thing:
http://defamer.com/380219/exclusive-debunking-the-marilyn-monroe-sex-tape-hoax
Welcome to the party guys!
The “Marilyn Monroe” sex tape story is a hoax.
If you missed the story, a Marilyn Monroe “Collector/Producer” named Keya Morgan claims that he uncovered a sex tape of Marilyn Monroe while researching a book on her death. He then brokered a deal with an unnamed New York businessman who paid 1.5 million for the tape, which he will lock up in his vault with no plans to exploit the tape out of respect for MM’s memory. In an interview on CBS, “Keya Morgan” says that he was filming an interview with an eighty-something year old man who was present on the day Monroe died, and during the interview, the man mentioned that he had made a copy of the Monroe sex tape which was later confiscated by the FBI. Thus, he has the only copy of the film! Morgan claims that he himself would never have been a part of allowing the movie to be exploited and tarnish Monroe’s (pristine?) image, so he did the logical thing: he found a buyer and brokered the private sale.
I call shenanigans! For this story to be true, you have to believe:
1. The eighty year old man has quietly kept this film for 50 years and either shared it with no one, or only with people who kept quiet, but then for some unknown reason began telling a “producer/collector” about the tape while being filmed. Then, he readily showed it to Morgan. Then, allowed Morgan to broker a sale of the tape. Query: why didn’t the old man sell the tape himself years earlier? Anyone remotely lucid would realize the value of such a tape. The only answer would be that he really, really wanted to protect Monroe’s image (which isn’t exactly virginal to begin with.) But if he was so concerned about that, why would he tell Morgan about the tape while on camera? And, if he really wanted to make sure the tape didn’t become public, why would he sell it to someone else? The only certain way to make sure it remains under wraps would be to destroy the only available copy of the film. Shenanigans!
2. Producer/Collector Keya Morgan says he would never be a part of allowing that tape to be made public, yet he allegedly brokered the sale of the tape? How did secretly find a buyer willing to pay 1.5 million for the rights to keep the tape in his safe? Wouldn’t that kind of money require a bidding war of some kind? Most importantly, if your primary goal is to protect Monroe’s image, why would you go on the morning talk show circuit to talk about the tape, how you found it and what was on it? Doesn’t that tarnish her image too? If it was so important that the sale be secret until it was completed, wouldn’t the parties want to keep it quiet afterwards? It would be really easy to accomplish that by contract.
Plus, in the interview I saw of him on CBS, something just didn’t seem right. At one point, the interviewer asked why he sold the tape for so much less than he could have gotten. Even though at another point he made clear that he was simply the “broker” and not the seller, rather than tell her that, he says he didn’t want to exploit Monroe. If he was a broker, wouldn’t his duty be to represent the interests of his client, the seller? To be honest, he just looks like someone who is pulling a fast one.
3. Some unknown “businessman” was willing to buy the secretly buy the tape for 1.5 million dollars just to keep it in his safe? Did he buy the tape on Morgan’s word that it really was MM? It wouldn’t exactly be easy to positively identify anyone in a 50 year old amateur film, would it? If you bought the tape for that kind of money with no profit motive, would you really be ok with the “broker” of the deal going public with it?
Now, I don’t disbelieve that MM made a sex tape at some point. From the time cameras became commercially available, people have filmed themselves and others nude and having sex. Monroe was a struggling actress and model, and it isn’t that hard to believe she’d have made a stag movie for some quick cash early in her career. But that tape, if it exists, is not the subject of this story. All in all, the chance that this story is as reported is pretty slim, IMO.
Someone took some time to plot changes in US home prices (adjusted for inflation) from 1890-2006 to see what it would look like as a roller coaster. For those afraid of heights: that last drop looks like a doosey!
For the past couple of years, I’ve been taking classes in the CFP program at the Continuing Ed. division of Kennesaw State University. Certified Financial Planners must be registered with the CFP board, which is a private organization that certifies and regulates people in the financial planning field. Most “financial planners” aren’t CFP’s, and no particular degree or license is needed to hang a shingle and call yourself a financial adviser or planner. As you might imagine, lots of untrained and unqualified people do just this. CFP’s must complete an authorized CFP program (which takes around 2 years), must pass the CFP exam, and must meet a work experience requirement in the financial planning field.
I started taking the CFP classes a few years ago because I wanted to become a better attorney. I handle mostly family and criminal law cases, and I realized that I, like most lawyers, really had very little understanding about retirements plans, estate planning, income taxes, etc. As an attorney, I was eligible to sit for the CFP exam without completing a CFP program (attorneys and CPA’s are exempt), but when I looked at the practice test, I realized there was no way I would pass.
After two years, I finally finished my classes last night when I took my final exam in Estate Planning. In all, I took the following classes:
I’ll probably sit for the exam later this year to become “certified.”
BTW, David Hultstrom was easily the best teacher I had in the program, though the others were good, too. He has a fee only financial planning firm which has a great website with lots of really informative content. Check it out and sign up for the free e-newletter if you have any interest in that type of thing.
I am a lawyer in Cartersville, Georgia. I’ve been an attorney since 1998, and it just dawned on my this morning that in October I will have been a member of the State Bar of Georgia for ten years. Time flies!
Generally, lawyers aren’t particularly happy people. One thing that usually surprises most non-lawyers is learning that most lawyers chose their occupation by default. If you talk to a lawyer, odds are he will tell you this story, or one pretty similar: I wasn’t a particularly studious college student, but I was smart enough to do reasonably well in college. By the time I was a senior in college, I didn’t really know what I wanted to do, and didn’t necessarily want to go find a job yet. Then one day, a light bulb flashes in the part of your brain you should never listen to, and you think, why not go to law school? It’s only three years, it doesn’t require any particular undergraduate degree, it’s not that hard to get in somewhere, and LAWYERS MAKE LOTS OF MONEY.
This was pretty much my story, but I was really surprised when I actually got to Georgia Law School and realized that almost everyone else pretty much had that same story. Now, to be sure, there were lots of people there that had dreamed of becoming a lawyer since they saw To Kill a Mockingbird in 8th grade English, or have family legacy to fulfill, or have actually bothered to fully consider what a suitable career might be. But most of us were pretty much there by default.
I will say this: I learned a lot in law school. I learned to become a critical thinker and to formulate arguments. This is a useful skill in life, but it can make you pretty annoying to hang around with. This is one reason why lawyers are generally unhappy people. Lawyers are cynics. Come up with any idea you can, and if you have a lawyer friend, family member or (heaven forbid!) spouse, he or she will immediately ridicule the flaws in your idea. Lawyers dislike every political candidate and party, except to the extent they stand to personally gain from that candidate or party.
Lawyers are also very cynical because we deal with other people’s problems on a regular basis. In my practice, I have had a few clients who have really gotten screwed by a business partner. In both cases, my client and his ill-fated partner met at church. (I have come to the conclusion that if someone hands you a business card with the Jesus fish on it, there’s a pretty good chance you’re about to get screwed.) Lawyers routinely deal with people that say one thing, and do something completely different and who are very upset about something going on in their lives. Most people don’t give a lawyer a retainer because they’re extremely happy with their marriage, lack of criminal charges or business success. The old cliche’ is true: it’s very hard to leave that kind of thing at the office.
Lawyers generally work lots of hours, and the pay, while good, isn’t nearly what most people think it is. It’s true that some lawyers make scads of money, but most lawyers make a good but not grand living. (I know for a fact that I would be making more money now if I had skipped law school and gotten a job right out of college with my Economics Degree.) Now, most lawyers aren’t really hung up on not making enough money. Like I said, lawyers do make a good living. The thing that gives lawyers a complex is that fact that most people think they make tons of money. If you ever tell a non-lawyer that the practice of law is not a financially rewarding as they might think, they always think you’re just trying to be modest. For example, a friend of mine who had been a lawyer for a couple of years was married to a grade school teacher. She would always be aggravated that she couldn’t join the whine and moan sessions in the teachers’ lounge because the other teachers would always say, “Well, you’re married to a lawyer. You don’t even have to work.” No one should be deprived of their right to whine just like everyone else!
Most people realize that court isn’t nearly as exciting in real life as it is on tv, especially if they’re ever served on jury duty. Personally, I enjoy going to court. I like trying cases. It is incredibly stressful though. Lots of lawyers burn out after a few years from the stress, or wind up taking lots of meds to deal with the stress. I realize most jobs have certain levels of stress, so attorneys are certainly not unique in this job minus. But studies consistently show lawyers as having among the highest rates of depression, suicide and the like.
There are some good things about being a lawyer, though. As I said before, the pay is good, though not great. That is substantially better than being bad, but not terrible. Although we work lots of hours, we get to spend a lot of time talking to people, which for a social person like me doesn’t really feel like work. Lawyers almost always have lots of great stories, which is great unless you spend lots of time with one particular attorney because you’ll hear the same ones over and over and over again. Occasionally we get to actually help someone. I love doing adoptions, for example, because it’s very satisfying seeing how happy a child is when an adoption is finally complete. Finally, law is probably the easiest field to become self-employed in. Even though I don’t like practicing law sometimes, I do like having my own firm and being my own boss.
All told, if I had it all to do over again, I would have probably done something else. There are some lawyers I know who love what they do, though, so it is a great career for some people. But if anyone was seriously considering law school, I’d take some time to talk to a lawyer or two to try to get a real picture of what it would be like before spends lots of time and money going to law school.
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