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Carol Burnett: National Enquirer
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Carol gave part of the money she gained from her lawsuit against The National Enquirer to the University of Hawaii and the University of California at Berkeley to be used for awards for ethics in journalism. (edit)
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Burnett drew attention in 1981, when she sued the National Enquirer for libel after the tabloid newspaper described her alleged public drunkenness, purportedly with Henry Kissinger. Burnett was particularly sensitive to the accusations because of her parents' own alcoholism. The case was a landmark for libel cases involving celebrities, although the unprecedented $1.6 million verdict for Burnett was reduced to about $800,000 on appeal, and eventually settled out of court.
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Unlike many show-business denizens, Burnett has continued to make her private life public in an effort to stall sensationalist stories in gossip magazines. In the mid-1970s, the National Enquirer printed an anecdote that she was being drunk and disorderly in a Washington, D.C. restaurant. Incensed by the fabrication - and personally wounded because of how alcohol destroyed her parents - Burnett sued the paper. After seven years in the courts, a jury sided with the actor and awarded her a hefty sum. She gave the proceeds to charity.
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The real glories of the production can be summed up in two words: Carol Burnett. The great comedy star -- who officially reached national-treasure status by receiving Kennedy Center Honors and, this year, the Presidential Medal of Freedom -- appeared in two previous TV productions of the musical, which is loosely based on the classic fairy tale "The Princess and the Pea."
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