#lee mortimer

The racist "Confidential" books of Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer were optioned for a series of bland film noir B-films which, gratefully, bore little resemblance to the source material.

From: Everybody Dance Now, Season 1 (2012)

Newspaper columnists Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer wrote a series of brutally racist “confidential” paperbacks. Salacious and vicious, the books spend much of their time “exposing” the supposed evils of minorities and interracial marriage.

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Now that's a beat

Frank Sinatra and columnist Lee Mortimer appear in court in 1947 after an altercation at Ciro's nightclub where Sinatra punched Mortimer. Sinatra claimed that Mortimer, who had repeatedly bashed Sinatra in his column, used a racial slur against Sinatra which provoked him. The two eventually reached a settlement of $9,000. This was one of several events that sent Sinatra's career downhill, where it would remain until 1953. It also marked the beginning of a highly antagonistic relationship with the press as a whole, something that Sinatra would become known for. In a television interview with Suzy Knickerbocker in 1977, Sinatra claimed that this was the only real physical altercation he ever had with the press and that if Mortimer had still been alive, he would have done it again, saying that Mortimer was "just that kind of a man."