If all this publicity were were serving one of her projects, it would be a mega-hit. Unfortunately, it’s all about foul-mouthed, foul-tempered Judith.

(Printed) rumor has it she was fired for offending a lawyer at HarperCollins during a heated conversation. She routinely curses at people, as in “you fucking fa**ot,” I’m told by people who know—she was Hollywood long before she moved her operation to Los Angeles—so I see no reason not to believe the rumor that an anti-Semitic slur directed at one of her HC colleagues was the final nail in her coffin.)

GalleyCat has the scoop, and lots of links (and GC’s Ron Hogan is even part of the story now). Keep checking back there, ’cause I’m going to be really busy today.

Meanwhile, the NYT’s David Carr is reading my mind, reading my blog, or on the same wave length (which wouldn’t surprise me; he often is). Like me, he concludes that Regan was bad for business:

The “If I Did It” book and television package was shelved not because it was in bad taste or because it was bad for the culture at large, but because it was bad for business.

Carr also gets the true nature of Regan’s sin:

… Rupert Murdoch called the project “ill-conceived.”

The phrase he should have used was “ill-received.”

Yep. The project “looked bad,” and made everyone involved “look bad.” End of story.