Word: gossip
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Anchorman Peter Jennings does not seem pleased by speculation that he is dating Barbra Streisand. Responding to reports that he'd shared a cuddly dinner with the chanteuse, he wrote gossip columnist Liz Smith a letter saying, "We spent the entire dinner discussing a speech Barbra was soon to give...
...allegedly molesting a 13-year-old boy, the self-designated King of Pop married Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of the King, in what many perceived as an attempt to cleanse his tarnished image. However, only a few months after the newlyweds kissed steamily at the MTV Video Music Awards, gossip columnists buzzed that the marriage would soon be nullified, a rumor the Jacksons deny...
...Winchell: Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity by Neal Gabler (Knopf). Walter Winchell would have sent Rush Limbaugh out for coffee. Doubters among the uninstructed young are invited to read biographer Gabler's superb, richly detailed portrait of the grade-school dropout and vainglorious, third-rate ex-hoofer who, more than any other gossipist, invented the modern celebrity industry. His syndicated "colyums" and brassy, red-baiting broadcasts to "Mr. and Mrs. America and all the ships at sea" shaped U.S. lowbrow culture for the 1930s and '40s. When he died unlamented in 1972, Winchell was a lonely and bilious...
Happily, Watkins, Lopes and Thomas have been doing more than getting in the gossip columns lately; they've also been getting better. Their 1992 debut album, Ooooooohhh ... on the TLC Tip, sold almost 3 million copies, but it was instantly forgettable. CrazySexyCool features slinky singing, bouncy beats and grabby rap interludes, and the vocals are stronger and the melodies more piquant than those on the first album. Several songs stand out, including Creep, a funky, slightly jazzy dance number, and the delicately saucy Red Light Special, a love song written by the ubiquitous Babyface (who has composed recent hits...
Wrongheaded and tortuous as this Merchant sometimes is, the updating is witty and apt. The "news of the Rialto" becomes fodder for a pair of gossip reporters on a happy-talk TV newscast. Shylock's trial is presided over by a mumbling, superannuated judge who could have stepped right out of Court TV. With a few exceptions -- Elaine Tse's overwrought Portia, for instance -- the actors strike a nice balance between Shakespeare's poetry and Sellars' stunt driving. For the rest of us, it's a wild ride...