Word: gossipers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very least, Tonight offers readers a needed alternative to the Post, which has used its once exclusive position as the only general afternoon daily in town to flaunt the Murdoch formula: skirting serious news while playing up sex, celebrity gossip and crime. The formula has paid some dividends; circulation is up 30,000 over the past year, to 654,000, though the Post still costs Murdoch an estimated $8 million a year in losses from an otherwise profitable empire that includes newspapers, magazines and airlines...
...plot twist. At last count, 300 million souls in 57 countries shared this benign obsession. When the Ewing family saga begins its new season, the number is sure to be swollen by millions more who will have succumbed to the summerlong blitz of news features, promotions and gossip. Competing networks are advised to broadcast test patterns...
...this view in Advertisements for Myself (1959): "At his worst [Capote] has less to say than any good writer I know. I would suspect he hesitates between the attractions of Society which enjoys and so repays him for his unique gifts, and the novel he could write of the gossip column's real life, a major work, but it would banish him forever from his favorite world...
Consciously or not, Capote eventually responded to this challenge with Answered Prayers, that bedeviled, and still unfinished, gossip novel concocted from letters, journals, conversations and the confidences spilled during hundreds of lunch dates. Four chapters of the book were published by Esquire in 1975-76. The reaction was predictable. Capote was denounced as a malicious liar and betrayer of his jet-set friends...
TIME Senior Correspondent Laurence I. Barrett interviewed all four of the younger Reagans and found them engagingly different from what the gossip suggested. His report...