Scandal Sheet

• Director: David Lowell Rich
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• Genre: Drama
• Movie Type: Showbiz Drama, Media Satire
• Themes: Members of the Press, Work Ethics
• Main Cast: Lauren Hutton, Burt Lancaster, Pamela Reed, Robert Urich
• Release Year: 1985
• Country: US
• Run Time: 100 minutes

Plot

Burt Lancaster is eminently hissable as a tabloid publisher in the made-for-TV Scandal Sheet. The current target of Lancaster's smears is alcoholic actor Robert Urich, who is on the verge of making a comeback through the auspices of his movie-star wife Lauren Hutton. Ruthlessly going after Urich merely for the purpose of selling newspapers, Lancaster "persuades" impoverished reporter Pamela Reed, the best friend of Urich and Hutton, to help him wield the hatchet. Sublimely trashy, Scandal Sheet is held together by the despicably dynamic performance of Burt Lancaster. The film was of course made long before tabloid publishers were being lauded as "news analysts" on TV talk shows. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

Bobby Di Cicco; Frederick Coffin; Lois de Banzie - Mrs. Skye; Patricia Gaul; Rance Howard; Lauren Hutton - Meg North; Bobby Jacoby; Peter Jurasik - McKey; Frances McDormand; Belita Moreno; Jeanne Mori; Susan Peretz - Missus Hart; Pamela Reed - Helen Greco; Robert Urich - Ben Rowan; Trey Wilson; Penelope Windust; Burt Lancaster - Harold Fallen; Max Wright - Stan Clark

Credit

George B. Chan - Art Director, David Lowell Rich - Director, Peter E. Berger - Editor, Henry Winkler - Executive Producer, Randy Edelman - Composer (Music Score), Jacques Marquette - Cinematographer, Roger Birnbaum - Producer, Irwin Winkler - Producer, Howard Rodman - Teleplay By

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