Interview with a killer
I’ve interviewed convicted murderer Robert Durst. I’ve me🃏t him. I’ve been with him. I’ve spo൩ken with him. I was in his Galveston jail.
I knew he’d become sickly. Cardiac arrest. Prison autho꧙rities had put h♕im in the hospital.
Nov. 13, 2003, I had one of several exclusives🍨 with him. Its particular front page had been headlined “Durst Speaks” and was a result of the Texas case. This millionaire from New York’s wealthy real estate family had worn a dress and stolen a sandwich and was t🍌hen on trial for gruesomely hacking up a body.
And the verdict was: He was actually sensationally acquitted.
Despite that stunning verdict, he still was annoyed. Actually irritated. Just hours aft𓆉er the verdict Durst, on the phone, calmly told me:
“I’m upset. I won fair and square. And I just saw the DA on TV saying, ‘Roꦆbert Durst is not welcome in my home.’ That’s not a nice thing to say. I thought it was nasty. I couldn’t ♋hear more because those in the next cell were making noise.”
At that time o♏ur conversation was spread over four 10-minute phone calls. He said: “The night before the verdict, we heard that the judge’s thinking was the jury would be deadlocked. Courthouse rumors were they couldn’t reach a decision. And when it came down the DA wasn’t even there. My lawyer wasn’t even 🐽there. We had to phone him.”
The day that trial began, Durst told me he’d actually been allowed a little delicacy. “Ice cream,” he said. However, being behind bars for so long his stomach was no longer accustomed to pigging out. He became ill. After the v𒐪erdict he particularly explained about how nice his Texas guards were. He said: “The guards gave me a special treat. Turkey, stuffing and chestnuts with french fries instead of mashed p𝕴otatoes.”
In 2010, Magnolia Pictures released the film “All Good Things.” It starred Kirsten Dunst and was inspired by the unsolved long-back fatal disappearance of Kathie,💧 Robert Durst’s first wife. The moviemakers hoped it would help a Best Supporting campaig💙n for Dunst.
Kirsten later said: “This didn’t decide whether or not he killed his first wife. The story starts with his youth, then working for his father, then🐲 his marital relationship. We don’t see him ‘do it’ but end up feeling he could’ve.”
Ryan Gosling who played the Durst character: “He says ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚter⭕rible things to his wife. I, as his character, then find and kill a dog. And [also] their many dogs somehow suddenly went missing. I also spent time with the late Mrs. Durst’s family who were quite emotional.”
TV medicine
Medical colleagues on Fauci: “Important for him to be important, to face cameras, be quoted. Nothing new. He’s been around a long time and when we worked with him during the HIV years,ꦓ he was the same. Itchy to be on TV, in headlines, out front, quoted, impor🌱tant. He craves it.”
An agent for change
Here’s the 411 on “The 355,” the female action flick with chicks doing all the kicks and tricks. Pene🍎lope Cruz, Diane Kruger, Lupita Nyong’o and ringleader Jessica Chastain.
Jessica: “355 was the code for the first female spy during America’s revolution. Real female agents say it’s a badge of honor to be referred to as ‘355’ and a tip oౠf the hat to women who were unre🦄cognized. Badass babes need more films like this.
“I’ve always been outspoken about how women have been and still are treated in Hollywood. Important to me to make a film where actres🌌ses were not just for hire but had each others’ back plus ownership over their work.”
So cold around here these days that some of this town’s rednecks have turned ꧃blue.
Only in New Y💟ork, kid🍌s, only in New York (and maybe Washington).