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...Accusation #2: The "Tom Ripley" Affair. This is unsubstantiated gossip if I've ever heard it, but I might as well report it. According to the New York Post, Hollywood is buzzing that Matt Damon is unhealthily obsessed with... Mark Wahlberg. [collective murmur] It's an elaborate story - according to columnist Richard Jonson, Matt fears Wahlberg as his Ripley-esque rival; Wahlberg is more "real," coming from the streets of Boston instead of the sheltered life of Cambridge and Harvard and Wahlberg can easily snatch up the roles that Damon is too prissy to play. Damon's growing obsession with...
...inhabitants of Cloontha relish the fight for its entertainment and gossip value, and they egg Brennan on whenever his resentment shows signs of flagging. Blood feuds have been a way of life in this village for longer than anyone can remember, and O'Brien's evocative prose shows the chilling hold that history and the dead clamp on the living...
...most eggs end with a list of programmers who have found themselves otherwise uncredited. Their lack of official recognition could explain why some eggs take satirical aim at management. Some versions of AOL, for example, have been implanted with Scott's Winkie, a winking face that offers mock insider gossip, such as a forthcoming "big announcement involving Steve Case, the CIA and the former Soviet Republic of Georgia." Microsoft's Wine Guide--now discontinued, alas--contains pictures of a shirtless Bill Gates (real snaps taken at a company picnic) that slide by to the strains of Pretty Woman...
...bulkier Nokia, is fine. And the Web, even when viewed on the phone's postage-stamp-size screen, is surprisingly readable. I can go to any site, read the text and bookmark it for later. For instance, on the train, I visit the site formerly known as Media Gossip at the touch of a button...
Mary McCarthy was beautiful when young and sharply handsome later on. She was the "Dark Lady of American Letters," tart tongued, astringently brilliant, a fierce gossip. Edmund Wilson, to whom she was married for a thoroughly horrible seven years, quoted a man who told her, "You're the only girl I ever knew who had the same kind of brains as a man and yet at the same time was perfectly beautiful...