-Caveat Lector-
New York Post-Gossip-October 6, 1999
Page Six
By RICHARD JOHNSON with
Jeane MacIntosh and Kate Coyne
ULTIMATE DISNEY DISS FOR WALLACE
DISNEY is all set to release a movie attacking the professional
ethics of "60 Minutes" star Mike Wallace and executive producer
Don Hewitt - but the studio won't let them see it.
The House of Mickey Mouse rebuffed efforts by the CBS duo to
preview "The Insider," which shows the television legends
buckling to pressure from Big Tobacco.
"The Insider," based on a Vanity Fair story by Marie Brenner, is
the saga of tobacco industry whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand, played
by Russell Crowe, and former "60 Minutes" producer Lowell
Bergman, played by Al Pacino.
Wigand - his long career at Brown & Williamson ending
ingloriously - turned traitor on his colleagues and broke the
confidentiality clause in his contract to collect thousands of
dollars from CBS as "consultant fees." CBS lawyers held up
broadcasting his story on "60 Minutes" for fear of being sued for
"tortious interference." The network later aired a watered-down
version after Wigand's story had broken elsewhere.
The movie depicts Wigand as a heroic crusader who risked
everything to expose the deception by evil tobacco execs - only
to have the cowards at CBS kill the story.
According to a source at "60 Minutes," Hewitt, Wallace and others
at CBS News tried more than once to acquire an advance copy of
the movie, opening Nov. 5. They were turned down - apparently by
producer and director Michael Mann, who was said to be worried
that Hewitt and Wallace would launch a campaign to discredit the
picture.
"Nobody here has seen the movie," "60 Minutes" spokesman Kevin
Tedesco told PAGE SIX. "There have been screenings but they were
not invited."
Publicity powerhouse John Scanlon, who advised Brown &
Williamson, has no plans to see himself played by Rip Torn: "I'm
not at all curious about it," he said.
Wallace erupted some months ago when he was given an early draft
of the script by Bergman. The opening scene showed Bergman in
Beirut, blindfolded and in the hands of Shi'ite extremists. His
cell phone rings and it is Wallace, played by Christopher
Plummer, demanding to know if his hotel room will have a Jacuzzi
and adequate room service. That never happened in real life, and
the scene never made it to the final cut.
A spokesman for Disney's distributor, Buena Vista, refused to
comment. Variety reviewer Todd McCarthy says the movie has
limited box office potential and "an over-riding air of
self-importance."
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