Word: backyarders
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Drop a boulder the size of the Pitt-Aniston wedding into the waters of celebrity culture, and there will be ripples. First, JENNIFER ANISTON filed a suit this week seeking unspecified damages from the publishers of Celebrity Skin magazine, which printed photos of her sunbathing topless in her backyard. Aniston claims the images are an obvious violation of her privacy, since they were shot from above and behind her. Perhaps the action was spurred by BRAD PITT, who successfully sued Playgirl in 1997 for printing nude paparazzi photos of him and ex-fiance Gwyneth Paltrow. Meanwhile, Paltrow tells Vanity Fair...
...career." What complicates the fire fighters' job is that the picturesque valley, like so much of the West, is adding population rapidly, creating what's called an "urban interface" of sometimes palatial homes tucked high among the trees. "Forest fire" is a misnomer: the Bitterroot fires are village fires, backyard fires...
...poor Joe. A prophet is not without honor save at his own convention. But then the Democrats have a complicated relationship with the entertainment community at this convention, having taken a Hollywood-bashing tack in the backyard of the folks who not only bankroll their campaigns but, through the "Man From Hope" video, helped craft the public image of the President, who's looking more attractive with every day that Al Gore spends in the spotlight...
BUSH: Yes, my heritage is part of who I am, and that certainly included politics. But my dad didn't take me in the backyard and hit a tackling dummy to make me a great tackler, and he also didn't do things to try to make me a politician...
...inner-city neighborhoods who know few whites besides cops, teachers and social workers. To some readers, leaving the story of those kinds of people out of the series seemed to teleport the problem to somewhere out there in the hinterlands, away from the paper's own racially troubled backyard...