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...mails resurrect my wonderful intersession my first year, a time of unending fun, and the excitement of getting my first Harvard acting role. They recall the forgotten spontaneity of the night of Feb. 11, 1999: “All the gossip at 2:30: Ben is playing funky music. Ben and I were dancing at our ‘White Guys Hip-Hop Party’ a few minutes ago.” Then there is this uncharacteristically cocky e-mail from Feb. 9, just after I asked someone to the Freshman Formal: “Mission successful...
...Onizawa, who is a celebrity-gossip expert on television, was brave enough to share his story. He says he recognized his assailants from the train: he had asked them to give up their seats for a pregnant woman. They glared at him, then furtively tailed him. "Young men like them have no respect for the older generation," Onizawa laments. "After the economic bubble burst, middle-aged men all lost their confidence. So what the kids today saw growing up were these sad, pathetic father figures...
...central task of her reign has always been managing the monarchy's image, from which all legitimacy flows. In the 1950s, editors were decorous, convinced that negative news or gossip would outrage readers. But the culture of deference was displaced by a raucous war for circulation and TV viewers, where skirmishes were fought with tittle-tattle about the Windsors. "The main change of the last 50 years is that the monarchy has become absorbed into, embroiled with, the culture of celebrity," says John Baxendale, a cultural historian at Sheffield Hallam University. The royals could not have remained Victorian icons; they...
...headline screamed: NICOLE AND SPIDER-MAN RED-HOT ROMANCE! Maguire is a movie star now, and his life has become a spectator sport. He has been romantically linked to a leading lady (Spider-Man's Kirsten Dunst), and now he's a major player in the Kidman-Cruise celebrity-gossip sweepstakes. Of Kidman, he says, "We're friends." Of his radically heightened recognizability, he notes, "It's kind of surreal, because it's pretty drastic. It's a more definitive difference than I expected. I feel like a lot of things changed within a three-day period...
...CORRECTION: Two weeks ago Gossip Guy reported that notorious jackass Corker Q. Picker ’02-’03 was suspended by the Ad Board for punching Helen Vendler. In fact, Picker was booted for effeminately slapping Quincy House Master Robert P. Kirshner ’70 in the back of the head. Gossip Guy regrets the error...