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...part of the scene," he counted among his friends screen legends like Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier. "I told him at an Oscar ceremony he was the most famous person here," says director Steven Spielberg. "He blushed." When longtime bachelor Warren Beatty finally tied the knot in 1992, Archerd got the exclusive in a call from the newlywed himself. His column was short on sensationalism, but in 1985 Archerd broke what he later called "the biggest show-business story ever"--the news that actor Rock Hudson was dying of AIDS. The delicately worded item introduced a disease that most Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army Archerd | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

When Laurie, a 20-something saleswoman in Tampa, Fla., got pulled over this summer for a minor traffic violation, she (and the police officer) discovered that her driver's license had expired. She was arrested for that misdemeanor, was released and dutifully got her license renewed the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers Catch Mug-Shot Mania | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

...case is hardly fodder for the crime pages. But since this is the Internet age, Laurie got her mug shot, name and arrest data splashed on TampaBay.com, the website of the Pulitzer-winning St. Petersburg Times. Mug Shots, a prominent fixture on the site's home page since it debuted earlier this year, posts every arrest photo from the four Tampa Bay-area counties, complete with the dazed scowls, bad hair and, for folks like Laurie, the humiliation of appearing alongside alleged murderers and car thieves. "This is completely horrible," says Laurie, who asked TIME not to print her last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers Catch Mug-Shot Mania | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

...flew from New York to San Francisco to see what had become of the woman who had once captured his teenage heart. "I knew it wasn't going to turn out like some Jennifer Aniston romantic comedy," Peterson says. "I just wanted to see her again." The pair still got along, although this time just as friends. (See the top 10 celebrity Twitter feeds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facebook Gives Birth to the Retrosexual | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

...than a one-night stand. But it was definitely less than a real relationship. They had a history, a rapport. They weren't just hooking up; they were doing something they had always wanted to do but had been too young to try. "It was fun," says Stein. "I got this really great closure, and it felt safe in a weird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facebook Gives Birth to the Retrosexual | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

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