Errol Morris sued by ‘Tabloid’ subject Joyce McKinney
Why aren’t we surprised that Joyce McKinney, the woman at the center of Errol Morris’s amusing documentary “Tabloid,’’ is suing the Cambridge filmmaker? McKinney, infamous for her involvement in the 1970s tabloid tale known as the “Mormon sex in chains’’ case, claims Morris falsely portrays her in his film as “crazy, a sex offender, an S&M prostitute, and/or a rapist.’’ McKinney says Morris, who won an Oscar for “The Fog of War,’’ led her to believe he was making a Showtime series about paparazzi and instead “unwittingly tricked’’ her into talking about a “long dead tabloid hoax.’’ (She also claims Morris’s “cronies ransacked her luggage and stole personal photographs and memorabilia’’ that she had planned to use for a memoir.) She’s suing for unspecified damages. We tried to call Morris today, but he was in the air, flying home from London, where he just delivered the David Lean Lecture at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
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