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The entrepreneurial zeal shown by Levine helped land him a job in 1992 as managing editor of “A Current Affair,” a pioneering tabloid TV show that featured exhaustive coverage of O.J.

Simpson created the perfect nexus of breaking news, tabloid TV and the nascent true crime genre.

He only chooses subjects he’s madly in love with, then fearlessly dives in, just as he did with Shakespeare, setting the story of Romeo and Juliet in Verona Beach, a fictionalized Miami of sorts, with Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, pink hair, tabloid TV and a hot-dog stand.

“With the world so divided and everybody telling him he’s got to give up and it’s time to leave . . . why not name the vaccine ‘The Trump’?” suggested the former tabloid TV talk show host.

“Fred was making a lot of ancillary dough then, appearing on tabloid TV shows like ‘Inside Edition,’” Ellroy says.