Word: gossipeer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Home is subtitled A Memoir of My Early Years, and it takes us only through 1962, post--My Fair Lady and Camelot but pre-Poppins. But it gives us a full helping of backstage gossip, from a drunken, amorous Richard Burton to an explosively flatulent Rex Harrison. Andrews comes across as plainspoken, guilelessly charming and resoundingly tough. Maybe too tough--she lets us backstage, but she never quite takes us upstairs, into her head. (Moss Hart, trying gamely to get Andrews to emote in My Fair Lady, said, sighing, "She has that terrible British strength that makes you wonder...
...begin with full disclosure of all monetary relationships the speaker has with any company. Every single fully trained doctor I heard speak was getting paid by a company; many of the bigger-name doctors were getting paid by three or four. How much money was still the subject of gossip - the exact amount is not required to be broadcast in these podium confessionals. The DOJ has, however, ordered companies to list the doctors in their employ, as well as the amounts paid them, on their websites. Judging by those figures, it adds up to plenty. And it got our attention...
...didn't see it that way. She wanted the thrill of watching food decompose. I wondered if we could do something else for the planet instead: save trees by ordering fewer fashion magazines, protect cows by massively reducing our purchases of boots and handbags, conserve energy by not watching Gossip Girl. But the compost isn't going anywhere...
...passed. The Atlantic Monthly, which features Britney on its cover this month, asks that question in their article “Shooting Britney,” which attempts to break down our national obsession with celebrity gossip. It traces the “evolution of Hollywood paparazzi from a marginal nuisance to one of the most powerful and lucrative forces driving the American news-gathering industry... to March 2002, when a women’s magazine editor named Bonnie Fuller took over a Wenner Media property called Us Weekly...
...more and more Web sites such as JuicyCampus.com, a gossip site akin to Harvard’s Gossip Geek, provide environments that facilitate unverified user-content (“C’mon. Give us the juice. Posts are totally, 100% anonymous,” reads the site), the need to be a discerning consumer of the Internet becomes more prominent. Wikipedia-wary professors warning against unaccountable, authorless sources preach this message time and time again. While the best advice to give a prospective Internet user is to take everything with a grain of salt, the reality of concrete injury...