Word: gossipeer
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...MATTER THEIR IQS, THESE ARE STILL KIDS on the rocky promontory of adolescence. Hormones crackle; tempers rise. The boys shove; the girls gossip; a kid hits another kid during volleyball. "They are O.K. with the team sports, but this is a group that really loves the individual sports--the rock climbing was a big hit," says Kathy Dohr, the gym teacher. You do get the sense sometimes that the Davidson students are alone together. An older boy who says he was beaten up at other schools told me, "I can't say I have many friends here...
...girlfriend, even though he has her on the background screen of his iPhone. His biggest scandal is that his voice was overdubbed with another guy's singing in High School Musical (he rectified that in the second). Efron tries to say nothing worthy of a gossip-column item. "I don't have much to worry about," he says, "because my personal life isn't that interesting...
...that the young, would-be novelist (Anne Hathaway) had a flirtation with an impecunious Irish lawyer named Tom LeFroy (James McAvoy) that came to a lot less than this movie rather melodramatically makes it out to be. Call it, perhaps, a fantasy based on a stray nugget of historical gossip...
...Want to opt out? If politely asking to have your listing removed doesn't work, don't expect a lawsuit to help much either. According to Daniel Solove, a George Washington University law professor and author of the forthcoming book, The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor and Privacy On the Internet (coming out in October from Yale University Press), it's difficult to argue that these sites are either defamatory or a breach of privacy since the information is publicly available on the Internet. "It's very problematic, but it's also very difficult to solve," he says...
...also weak, like Dahlia Malloy (Minnie Driver) of FX's The Riches, a drug addict and ex-con (and current con artist). Or criminal but charming, like Mary-Louise Parker's pot-dealing widow in Showtime's suburban dramedy Weeds. Or sympathetic but scary, like Courteney Cox's rapacious gossip-magazine editor in FX's Dirt. Or dedicated but damaged, like Kyra Sedgwick's detective Brenda Johnson, beset with food addictions and relationship problems, in TNT's The Closer. Or earnest but abrasive, like Chloë Sevigny's pushy, shopping-addicted but fiercely loyal and devout polygamist...