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...Nichols doesn't think so. "Women's competitiveness with one another was always exaggerated, from the days of Clare Boothe Luce on," he says, referring to her 1936 play (and the 1939 movie) "The Women," which proposed that Manhattan's most privileged females were rolling and roiling in bitchery, gossip and recriminations, all designed to bring other women down. "And when cheese-and-wine sessions to discuss orgasms first hit (durng the '70s), women discovered that the competition was never as avid as had been portrayed in 'The Women' - that they were better at being on each other's side...
...true that films are more sex-obsessed these days. All of pop culture is. Americans listen to Howard Stern, giggle over Janet Jackson, collect unrated DVD editions of the "American Pie" trilogy, gossip about celebrities' dirty secrets. We ogle (and then condemn) the dropping of a bathrobe on a Monday Night Football teaser; leaf through Jenna Jameson's best-seller "How to Make Love Like a Porn Star"; log onto the Internet and bathe in all that lovely cyberswill. Not to mention a multibillion-dollar porn industry that produces some 10,000 films a year, far more than the annual...
...contrast, tabloids, gossip magazines, and most notably cable news channels have had a field day with the Peterson case. On Fox News Channel, for example, there was nary a day during Scott Peterson’s trial that chief legal analyst Greta Van Susteren didn’t make the case front and center on her program “On the Record.” On MSNBC, meanwhile, the host of “The Abrams Report” Dan Abrams featured a segment on the trial every day until its culmination. Thankfully, network news and the mainstream newspapers...
...face of FM gossip: stinging rumor, swollen innuendo...
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