Simon Monjack and Brittany Murphy: Tragedy Tars the Spin Machine

The appearance by the grieving husband on Larry King was entirely unconvincing

 It was with a feeling somewhere between nausea and fascination that I watched Larry King’s exclusive interview with Brittany Murphy’s husband Simon Monjack and the actress’s mother Sharon on Saturday night. 

When celebrity tragedy meets the spin machine, truth never ensues – only more sad spectacle. 

And so it was. Monjack, a mysterious figure and presumed villain of the story, was there to change his public image, well-established by the tabloids and all those pictures of him as a dark, hulking presence beside the petite Britney.

And he brought with him a B player from central casting – the distraught, bereaved stage mother without the sense to know how she was being used.

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