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...readers hadn't wanted to stand in the supermarket check-out lines and devour Di in her pink-flowered swimsuit in the Mediterranean with Dodi in shades and shorts on his father's yacht, would there have been a phalanx of photographers in a high-speed chase to capture yet another glimpse of the couple? There's an audience for celebrity pap, and when the mainstream press doesn't pander to it directly, it does so indirectly by tabloid laundering: writing about how crazy it is that the tabloids spend so much time covering a royal romance, and then running...
...walls of Christie's salesrooms in New York City are like a faux castle, lined with plastic stone and fake vines, but there were real royal relics up for grabs there last week. More than 1,000 potential buyers, a phalanx of reporters and dozens of young Christie's employees in little black dresses watched Christie's chairman LORD HINDLIP auction off 79 of DIANA's castoffs--some lovely, some dated, some plain hideous. The "Up Yours" dress, right, so called because Diana wore it to stunning effect the night Charles admitted his infidelity on TV, was an early favorite...
...conference after the ruling, Fred Goldman commented, "Today marks two and a half years (since the killings) and we finally have justice. Our family is greatful for the verdict. Thank God." Outside the Santa Monica court house, a huge crowd, separated from the building by barricades and a police phalanx, erupted with cheers as word of the jury's decision became clear. Unlike the criminal trial, which required a unanimous decision, only 9 of the 12 civil jurors had to agree on a decision against Simpson. But what swayed all of the jurors to go him remains unclear...
...last week reality--and a major ruckus--set in. Once again battle lines were drawn, with parents and other child advocates on one side and a phalanx of TV executives on the other. Poll data were cited, lawsuits threatened, rhetoric ratcheted up--much of it coming from Washington politicians, who know that standing up for children against the big bad wolf of television is politically a no-lose proposition--even after an election...
...battle of a simple country girl against a phalanx of church elders, the debate of passion vs. propriety, the close-ups of so many stern faces and one shining one--all this calls to mind The Passion of Joan of Arc, the 1928 silent masterpiece by another Dane, Carl Dreyer. Von Trier's film isn't in that class, but he gets points for wild ambition. Like Bess, the writer-director has undergone a conversion. His early pictures, Element of Crime and Zentropa, were wondrously busy examples of cinematic Euroflash; here he goes for sweeping visual sentiment. He wants...