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...Opening Day is Gossip Guy’s favorite day of the year. There’s nothing quite like the snap of lies against horsehide, the roar of the rumors, and vendors in the grandstand hawking hot innuendo...
...coming Brian D’arcy James onstage) is a youngster consumed with a lust for power. Much like Leo Bloom in The Producers, he wants everything he’s ever seen in the movies. His key to the bright lights is the most powerful gossip columnist in the country, a vicious, preening Walter Winchel-like monster named J.J. Hunsecker (Richard Lancaster on film and Lithgow onstage). In order to get into Hunsecker’s precious good graces, Falco must split up the relationship between Hunsecker’s sister, Susan, and nightclub singer Dallas...
...members the highest standards of morality and behavior. So the sexual, social and financial shenanigans of the past two decades, floodlit by a prurient and deference-be-damned press, strained her relationship with the younger royals. When the extramarital affairs of the Prince and Princess of Wales became common gossip, both got a dressing-down. "[The Queen Mother] came to feel that Diana was a very silly girl and had a poor sense of duty, or devoir, as she often calls it," a lady-in-waiting once said. "Diana sensed that the Queen Mother saw her as a second...
...reporter has an affair with a teenage hit man at the behest of a drug lord. Of even more interest may be a 1999 article Wetlaufer wrote for HBR containing a hypothetical case study in which a married CEO's louche ways with female employees end up in the gossip columns and cause trouble for his board of directors. In the article, Wetlaufer expressed little tolerance for her fictional philanderer. Fortunately, the real-life scenario is different: Welch is already retired...
...Academy overlooks things, it’s even arguable that they represent a majority meshing of critical and public opinion. However, they don’t need to be quite as obvious about caring so little about artistic value. When it comes down to the winner of a bitter gossip match over historical accuracy, the value and long-running reverence of the Oscars is completely undermined. One thing should be asserted this year: Rather than voting based on whether or not a film is historically justified, or some other absurdly irrelevant reason, perhaps they should vote on how good something...