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.