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Hearst's return to the tabloid format is a desperate, but plausible, effort to survive. The tabloid style, first practiced successfully in the U.S. by the New York Daily News (founded in 1919) and currently being carried to its irrational extreme by the New York Post under Rupert Murdoch, was modeled on Fleet Street's screaming dailies. The main features: short, punchy stories, heavy illustration, emphasis on sex, crime and gossip, and a smaller size for the harried, hurried commuter...
...provides a well-rounded package of original reporting and features to a large, densely populated suburban area. In Chicago, the Sun-Times (circ. 661, 531) is known for investigative reporting: last week it broke the Cardinal Cody story. Two recent entries indicate there may be life in the old format yet. In Philadelphia, the Journal (circ. 109,622), founded in 1977, is gaining a foothold with a sprightly mix of sports and gossip. Near by, the 106-year-old Delaware County Times converted itself last June 15 from a 25? afternoon broadsheet (circ. 39,000) to a 10? morning tabloid...
...Body Heat. All these films were made with George Lucas or Steven Spielberg; now Spielberg serves as an executive producer of the script, written in 1977, that brought Kasdan to his attention. Continental Divide may be the most reductive of his screenplays, but in reviving the romantic-comedy format of the '30s, it offers lessons to the student of structure-and pleasure to any moviegoer out for a good time...
Facing a short season and a screwy format, fans stay home...
...crime would be compounded under this format if the same club won both halves of the pennant. It would still have to win a best-of-five playoff with the team sporting the second best record over the full season. And by using overall records to determine the other playoff team, baseball left itself open to all sorts of shenanigans. Say the A's and Kansas City Royals are fighting for first place in September, with the Chicago White Sox close on their heels. If the White Sox contrived to lose their final series against Oakland...