Marilyn Monroe and The Los Angeles Times - a year of shame and disgust!

Advertisement in the Los Angeles Times, which promised 'Up Close and Personal' to the fraud, that is. Robert Welkos knew all along that there were 100% fakes on display, but he did nothing at all to stop it. By Hans Siegfried Schmidt   2006-11-27 16:27:24 - The newspaper could have shut down the exhibit - why didn't it? The Los Angeles Times could have prevented an expensive and fraudulent exhibit! Was the Los Angeles Times paid to cover up the truth about a fraudulent exhibit? Are there scandals hiding behind the scandals in the Queen Mary exhibit? A true scandal of possible corruption to sell advertisement space and let the readers for seven months pay to see the biggest fraud in exhibition history, ever. The phony 'Marilyn Monroe: The Exhibit- was dumped on the Queen Maryand an unsuspecting publicjust over a year ago. Robert Welkos, entertainment staff writer for The Los Angeles Times, was at the press opening in the company of Mark Bellinghaus, a Marilyn authority and major collector. At great length, Mark clued the reporter in to the deception (even inviting him to see his personal collection in his home).  But the attempts to educate Robert Welkos resulted in a reference in a Times story to 'some fans who scoff at the collection.- And there was a later reference to 'jealous fans.- For the record, Bellinghaus didn't scoff, he raged. www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-monroe23mar23,1,5106364 .. There's talk that media mogul David Geffen is planning to buy The Los Angeles Times, and it can't happen a moment too soonStop them before they shame themselves again! Mark Bellinghaus and friends fought for a year to bring legal attention to the scam on the Queen Mary--$22.95 to view a collection of certifiable junk! But doors were slammed shut all over town, including important ones in City Hall. The refrain could have been 'Don't nobody bring me no bad news!- - and the loudest chorus could have come from the offices of The Los Angeles Times. When the newspaper began running ads for the Marilyn Exhibitand billboards began appearing around townyour obvious question was, 'Hey, do you think they're being paid off?- And your obvious answer would be, 'Yeah, probably so.- But the year of horror was just beginning! John Miner, a deputy district attorney at the time of Marilyn Monroe's death, came forth with a container ship of foolishness, claiming he'd listened to audio tapes Marilyn had made for her psychiatrist. The tapeswhich surely don't existare unimaginative soap opera. They contain cornball fantasies and lies built upon other fantasies and lies created since the death of the blonde icon. They're the wet dreams of an unimaginative old man. Miner calls for a new autopsy on Marilyn, which he says will prove she was murdered. (Hugh Hefner promised last year to finance that pointless caper, but nothing has happened so far.) www.latimes.com/news/local/la-et-marilyn5aug05,0,1217607.story?c .. BUT: that didn't not stop Robert Welkos and The Los Angeles Times from devoting an obscene amount of space to the dumb and pointless story of John Miner and his transcriptions. Which led to The Wall Street Journal asking, 'Is Marilyn Monroe the answer to the hard times at the Los Angeles Times?- The WSJ answered its own question, noting that unpublished portions of Miner's transcripts received many hits when it was posted on the Times' Web site. online.wsj.com/public/article/SB112830208746958155-3bSMjiI_EfyMt .. The English conspiracy writer Matthew Smith was quoted as saying it would be 'absolutely impossible- for John Miner to have invented his claims. (Smith himself is absolutely impossible to believe.) The BBC reported that John Miner was facing bankruptsy before he 'remembered' those tapes. A German theater production in Berlin just staged a play which is based on those absolutely unbelievable in all means, tapes. Miner's call to arms was featured in last December's Playboy magazine . . . along with the appearance of June DiMaggio, an 83 year old woman claiming to have been a longtime friend of Marilyn's, and the niece of Joe DiMaggio. June and co-conspirator Mary Jane Popp announced the coming publication of their book: Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio and Me. Angry emails apparently made the publisher change his mind, as the book dropped out of sight. It's been a busy year for Marilyn frauds. A guy in Canada picked up Marilyn, hitchhiking after escaping from an ambulance. Dolores Hope Masi tried to peddle the jewelry that Marilyn had given her and her mother. Marilyn's 'best friend- Jeanne Carmen is peddling her memories of best-friend Marilyn. Singer Howard Keel revealed his long-time affair with MM. Italy donated a faily scary bronze statue of Marilyn to Los Angeles. And, surprise! June DiMaggio (real name June Alpino) is back, with a revised version of her book. It deletes stories about June's appearance at Monroe's funeral, stories that had been questioned, and substitutes spaghetti recipes. The Times dipped into Marilyn fantasy again this year, with a whopper. It seems that psychiatrist Adrian Finkelstein (who teaches past-life regression therapy in Malibu) was treating Canadian pop singer Sherrie Lea Laird and discoveredwouldn't you know it?!that she is the reincarnation of Marilyn Monroe, and (it gets better!) Sherrie's daughter is the reincarnation of Marilyn Monroe's mother. And then it gets worse: Robert Welkos in The Los Angeles Times devoted an incredible FULL-PAGE to this idiocy, plus a very large Page 3 photo. www.rickross.com/reference/false_memories/fsm113.html If the O. J. Simpson publisher had gone ahead with the 'If I Did It- confessional book, it would forever be listed as the most shocking lapse of journalistic integrity in memory. But it didn't happen. So now the Los Angeles Times can make that claim for itself, for Welkos's one-full-page story on Dr. Finkelstein and his two-for-the-price-of-one bottle blondes. Friendly messages have been left for Robert Welkos, asking, What are you thinking? Angry messages have been left for him, asking, WHAT are you thinking?! Brsuhing off with silly articles on nothing, that seems to entertain the calendar section management. So, if you have a circus you bring to town, with two headed Marilyn siamese twins. That will possibly make it onto the front cover of this paper. You want to sell a book about a silly sam? Even better. Call Mr. Welkos and make sure you mention a high dollar amount. The attention will be on your side, depending how many zeros your amount contains. Similar messages have been left for his boss, Betsy Sharkey. No one returns calls. They must be both busy digging for more freakish stories and characters, or both. True and applaudable journalism. How much are they making a month for this crap? While Welkos was sitting for weeks on paid vacation and of course worked here and then, sending some more unimportant articles from the Cannes Film Festival last May, a groundbreaking class action lawsuit was filed abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=local&id=4222447 and it was hardly even noticed by the Los Angeles Times, as again, that is the theory of some insiders, the LA Times simply was guilty for not doing anything earlier, when Mr. Bellinghaus stated on his blog, that the first call he would make the very first day into the exhibit was to, you guessed right: Mr. Robert W. Welkos. Betsy Sharkey promised that 'she would look into the possibilities of writing a warning for the Times' readers, if there was a lawsuit, but here again, she failed and Welkos disappointed the fraud hunter fully again. He more though let his readers down and behind and his work ethics should be questioned and double checked. Mr. Welkos who visited Bellinghaus' home and taped a three hour interview with the expert and collector; a journalist who also witnessed June DiMaggio and taped her interview and shook his head in disbelieve, he would write nothing at all in the entire time, while the fraud was on display. He got a personal 'fraud tour for dummies tour' and detailed explanation by Mr. Bellinghaus, the nuber one expert in this field, yet he never wrote one word about the fraud. No if someone really screws up in your office and fails more than once--would you send that person for weeks to Cannes, France as a reward for his screw ups and failure to report the biggest crime in Marilyn Monroe history? One big thank has to be made to Mr. Welkos though. When Mark Rosler's famous appraisal was printed by Robert Welkos, with the obvious try and bluff to shut Mr. Bellinghaus up (Welkos would discribe Bellinghaus literally as a 'fruitcake'), he delivered, mostly unwanted the final blow against the famous and super arrogant lawyer from Indianapolis. This multi million lie must certainly disbar this celeb lawyer for licensing of dead stars (Sophia Loren is one of his only living clients). David Geffen wants to run The Los Angeles Times? Let him have it! He can't do any worse than what we've got now! But please send some unqualified staff writers home. Including his boss, as they both failed to warn the paying reader about a fraud, that certainly could have been prevented by one strong article. As that paper still and not understandable has the second strongest power in this country. What a shame. That is how Monroe collector and expert Mark Bellinghaus finished our interview, he simply stated: Shame on Robert Welkos and Shame on Betsy Sharkey, too! They should really both be fired. Contact Information: Hans Siegfried Schmidt Now showing: the private life of Marilyn Monroe? - Los ... www.latimes.com › archives › la-x... Diese Seite übersetzen 11.11.2005 — By Robert W. Welkos ... Other items from “Marilyn Monroe: The Exhibit,” which goes on display today at the Queen Mary in Long Beach, veer ...