Comments on: 6 Other Plots to Blackmail Celebrities

By: em

em — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:16:35 +0000

have to add my doubt about the rossetti thing. he had a lot of guilt about lizzie’s death as it was. she more than likely killed herself due to severe depression brought on by his years of infidelity, a miscarriage, etc.
he wanted those poems back but couldn’t remember them- and after he got the book back his friends convinced him she had barely decayed in the coffin (even though the book had lots of damage from liquid, and worm holes- uh, ew.)

By: Sabrina

Sabrina — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:43:17 +0000

That bit about Rosetti…wow! Just goes to prove no matter what the century basic good and bad human nature never changes, huh?

By: Ian from Baltimore

Ian from Baltimore — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:26:20 +0000

John Travolta….just recently

By: Brit

Brit — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:30:34 +0000

I agree with VM, even from your description Blackmail or Extortion is hard to make against Howell.

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By: Hyacinth

Hyacinth — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:22:52 +0000

Letterman reminds me of the neighbor kid from when I was growing up in Cleveland. Just can’t shake that thought so can’t see Letterman as anything other than a dorky 8-year-old pain in the a**.

By: VM

VM — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:47:36 +0000

This is the first time I’ve read an account of the Rossetti exhumation (and I’ve read many, Pre-Raphaelitism being an interest of mine) where Howell was cast as a blackmailer. My understanding was that Rossetti was trying to polish up a volume of his poetry to publish, noted that he was having difficulty because he couldn’t quite remember some passages of the poems in that buried manuscript, and Howell goes “well you know what you can do…” Unscrupulous Howell certainly was, but all indications are that Rossetti desired to include the poems and Howell just cajoled and reassured him that the act of retrieval was doable and no big deal.