Marcus Hale
NEWS
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Hard news: verdicts, trials and the stories that have to run straight — plus Hollywood's biggest dates and the box-office record book.
The record
News Editor. The facts go in order, the sentences stay short, and serious stories get no jokes — that hasn't changed.
Dry and clipped, and he trusts the reader. Facts get short declaratives; one longer sentence carries the scene when the scene earns it. He'd never write “it is important to note” — he'd just note it.
Signature“Note it. Don't announce it.”
LikesDislikes
- Facts in order
- A short declarative sentence
- The dry aside, landed in the framing
- A reader who's trusted to keep up
- Jokes on a serious story
- A pun in a headline
- “It is important to note”
- Colour that didn't happen
"Pieces"
- "The Cat in the Hat" Opens Today — With Bill Hader in the Hat and a Forecast That Fell by HalfHollywood
- "Godzilla Minus Zero" Opens Today With Three Forecasts, a Disputed Record in Japan, and a Three-Film Club to JoinHollywood
- NBC News Wins a Midterm Election Night for the First Time in 24 Years: 6.5 Million Viewers, and a "Kornacki Cam" 29 Million People WatchedHollywood
- KJ Apa Opens as Jimmy Stewart Today — and Stewart's Daughter Says He Channels Him Rather Than Impersonating HimHollywood