Globe & Mail Article today
Steve
thought it was way out of line, and seemed to be based on some pretty
thin evidence. "According to the British tabloids..." etc. Also, it
seemed that the primary crime Ed committed was to be seen with this
lady a few times in public. Also, the line about 'Where was Ed when
Steven Page returned to Toronto for NXNE?" seemed to be a pretty far
stretch to make it into a basis for printed innuendo of adultery.
Lastly, I thought it was pretty cheap to print this in the National
Newspaper based in his hometown when there was absolutely no evidence
of wrongdoing. At least Frank Gifford was actually caught doing
something. I think the Globe should print a retraction and apology.
It was an article trying to make a story with no facts to back it
up....And then to print "Ed Robertson lives in Toronto with his wife
and daughter" They were going out of their way to create a story.
What the heck was the point? More Canadian backlash against BNL, or
just trying to wreck someone's homelife???
Asia11983
Okay... Would someone care to explain this to a hopeless American? Perhaps
point me toward an internet version of the article?
-Heather
Incrdulous
>Anyone see the article in today's Globe, and any reaction to it???
WHAT THE!? No! I haven't seen it! Is there a link, a copy ... anything???
Carrie
Incrd...@aol.com
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Brenden Schaaf
website:
http://www.globeandmail.ca/gam/ArtsColumns/19990625/TAGILL.html
Brenden Schaaf
wrote:
>Slappydog tantalizes us with:
>>Anyone see the article in today's Globe, and any reaction to it???
>
>WHAT THE!? No! I haven't seen it! Is there a link, a copy ... anything???
>
How many ladies can fit into one love triangle?
Alexandra Gill
Friday, June 25, 1999
Ed Robertson,guitarist for the Canadian pop group Barenaked Ladies, is
at the centre of a sensational celebrity love triangle. The British
tabloids report that Robertson, who lives in Toronto with his wife and
daughter, has recently been spotted taking afternoon strolls in
London's Primrose Hill with Jane Goldman,the author of two bestselling
books about the television show The X-Files.
Goldman is married and has three children with British TV game-show
host Jonathan Ross. The couple separated last month after Goldman was
treated for depression at the Priori Clinic in Roehampton (where Kate
Moss dried out last year). After checking out of the clinic, Goldman
arrived at the MTV party during last month's Cannes Film Festival
wearing a leopard-skin bikini and black cowboy hat over bright pink
hair.
A spokesman for Goldman denied there was any romantic liaison brewing
between the ladies. "He is a family friend, a friend of them both,"
Neil Reading said about Robertson.
Steve Waxman of Warner Music, the band's Canadian label, said the
rumours are "ridiculous." Waxman said he had not talked to Robertson
for several weeks because the Ladies are still on tour in Europe.
Robertson's wife, Natalie Herbert, is not with him. But as Waxman
explained, that's quite normal. "Wives don't usually go out on the
tours."
Waxman didn't explain, however, where Robertson was when fellow band
member Steven Page returned to Toronto for the NXNE music festival
earlier this month.
Nookie
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"Jim, you're always the guy who gets right in the f****ing lens of the camera!"
"I know, and I'm gonna tear ya apart!"
--Ed and Jim from a Shoebox EP video
CGisKING
well respected piece of journalism?
Craig
Steve
the Wall Street Journal. Primarily a business paper, but also news
and entertainment sports etc. Usually read by stockbrokers and old
folks (I admit I am one of these two.
M. M. Goodsoup
Just because a man and a woman are (for lack of better words) hanging
out doesn't mean they're having an affair or dating. If that was true,
since I hang out with a lot of guys I must be a slut.
Poor Ed and his family. I hope this doesn't go any further than this
article and dissapears fast.
M. M. Goodsoup
I can't spell, sorry.
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whatever with this woman is that Ed is a huge X-Files fan, and she wrote two
books on the X-Files.
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Sesame Slang
("alt.music.barenaked-ladies"), perhaps one day (27 Jun 1999 00:18:46
GMT) a chimp (bluer...@aol.com (Kelly Az)) might say:
>Well, gee... Maybe a good explanation as to why Ed was seen "going to lunch" or
>whatever with this woman is that Ed is a huge X-Files fan,
<g> yet another thing Ed and myself have in common :) we really must
meet and discuss this sometime - let's do lunch! <g>
> and she wrote two
>books on the X-Files.
yuh-huh, i got 'em both (and 'The Extraterrestrials Guide To The X
Files', man is that book funn-neeee! :) plus various others...)
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elizabeth
I heard about this a couple weeks ago but I didn't say anything here or
on the 'fort about it because it's completely unfounded and most likely
false.
Sort of funny how Ed is becoming the subject of British tabloids, now,
though. Guess it means he's really famous. <g>
Elizabeth
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Erin Lee Anderson
: Heh.
: I heard about this a couple weeks ago but I didn't say anything here or
: on the 'fort about it because it's completely unfounded and most likely
: false.
I first wondered if the writer went to high school with Ed and Nat and had
unresolved ... issues. :)
: Sort of funny how Ed is becoming the subject of British tabloids, now,
: though. Guess it means he's really famous. <g>
Well, I know someone who got ridiculed in the British tabs - Angela Aujla,
an editor at the Peak student paper who wrote an academic paper about
colonialist themes in the old Babar books. She was ripped into, sort of as
the "Ivory tower" target of the week, how could she not treasure such
fabulous little books as Babar, see what political correctness brings us
to, etc. So the non-famous can land in the tabs too, with a little bad
luck. She didn't even know until the CBC called her up for her opinion on
the whole mess! She and everyone else at the Peak had a good laugh about
it though.
Meanwhile, the author of the Ed article is now getting lambasted in the
Commentary section for the way she ripped into the royals. One letter
writer, a John Kerr, wrote in response to that:
"You would not treat Canadian politicians or pop or sports stars in this
manner. They might sue you."
Heh heh heh. Wouldn't that be nice. But Gill covered her butt by not
reporting the rumor directly, but rather saying that (unnamed) British
tabs were making the allegations. But nonetheless, it looks like the
woman's just a mean-spirited gossip columnist. With any luck the editors
will worry that they're alienating valuable readership and axe her.
I'm surprised that the Globe is turning to this kind of journalism - for
crying out loud, they're soliciting poetry from readers, even the student
paper I work for (the Peak) doesn't stoop that low for filler. The
Globe was often dull, yes, but at least it was a tad more thoughtful and
non-sensational than Conrad Black's many birdcage liners.
But I'm surprised no British BNL fans here mentioned it, if (as Gill
implied) more than one tab wrote about it. Or do those tabloid stories
really exist?
Poor Ed. This is what you get for being the Sexy Hobbit I suppose. ^_^;
I'm surprised that it's still such a deal for a celeb to have friends of
the opposite sex like the rest of us. And it's ED, for crying out loud...
Mr. Squeaky Clean himself. I hope that just makes it all blow over that
much sooner.
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