Word: gossiper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...success when he dresses up as a woman called Dorothy Michaels, becomes a star on a television soap opera and a kind of feminist media heroine as well. The movie was one of the messiest productions in recent history, for a time informally retitled "The Troubled Tootsie" in the gossip columns. No fewer than eight writers, three directors and a spare producer or two worked on it. There were hair-raising stories of Hoffman and Director Sydney Pollack yelling and throwing things at each other ("greatly exaggerated" Pollack now murmurs), of shutdowns and delays while they struggled over everything from...
...life was real; her tragedy was that she never got to play it onscreen. From the moment she hit Hollywood in 1935, barely 22 and with a natural blond beauty, Farmer determined to play by her own rules. She would adorn no mogul's casting couch, coddle no gossip columnist. She deserted Hollywood after her first hit movie (Come and Get It, 1936) to join the Group Theater in New York City as the star of Clifford Odets' Golden Boy. Life struck back at Frances with gaudy vengefulness. Odets and his group dumped her. She was cast...
DIED. Erving Goffman, 60, unorthodox sociologist whose provocative books (The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life and Forms of Talk) developed his somewhat mordant theories of contemporary ritual, based upon the overlooked small print of daily life (gossip, gestures, even grunts), in such settings as mental asylums and advertising columns; of cancer; in Philadelphia...
Like it or not, the "People" section is America-But so, one might note, are a whole slew of magazines dedicated t the heady stuff of glamorous gossip-People, Us, The National Enquirer, and others. Why don't i read them? These mindless mags may contain the same tasty tidbits Time brings us, but they suffer from another peculiarly American phenomenon, overkill. There's just too much there, and besides, the average Time reader has qualms about sporting a copy of this week's Enquirer on the coffee table. There are image problems...
Time's general acceptance and tidy layout, on the other had, legitimizes the nation's gossip. You can, after all, skim an item on Gary Coleman or Princess Di without fear of public humiliation when it's sandwiched between a cover story on nuclear awareness and a feature about the effect of home computers on education...