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When Madam Secretary, created by Barbara Hall, premiered in fall 2014, I watched the pilot out of curiosity. A fictionalized television show about the conduct of American foreign policy was pretty unusual. Having the protagonist make the leap from the intelligence community to academia to Foggy Bottom was even more unusual. I felt honor-bound to check out the Tea Leoni vehicle.
After the pilot, I did not watch another episode, for the same reason that doctors do not watch medical shows or lawyers do not watch legal shows: The lack of verisimilitude is so large that all this foreign policy wonk could do was notice the flaws.
Sir Elton John and his husband
David Furnish are to received a Lifetime Achievement Award for the decades of work they have done for AIDS awareness and fundraising. But that s where things get weird.
According to a report in PageSix, the tape of John and Furnish accepting the award will not be shown during the telecast, because the person who shot it is, in the words of the events company producing the show, holding the footage hostage.
It gets stranger still. The man who shot the speech is actor
Erich Bergen, who played
Madame Secretary. He was also seen in
Madam Secretary Star Erich Bergen Sued for Allegedly Holding Elton John Video Hostage
Celebrity
The Madam Secretary actor is facing a lawsuit as he reportedly refuses to hand over a video he filmed of the Rocket Man hitmaker and husband David Furnish at an awards show. May 14, 2021
David Furnish hostage.
The actor was paid $38,000 (£27,000) by MZA Events to film the singer and his husband accepting a lifetime achievement award - with the video intended to air as part of the AIDS Walk: Live at Home virtual telecast on Sunday (16May21).
However, according to court records obtained by the New York Post, Bergen is now refusing to hand over the video.