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Long before Mel Gibson was pulled over by Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies in Malibu for drunk driving, the entertainment news website TMZ.com - whose name is an acronym for the "thirty-mile zone" around Hollywood - had shown a knack for giving the world an unblinking, and often unflattering, view of celebrity shenanigans. "We report things as soon as we learn them and can confirm them," the website's general manager, Alan Citron, says. "I think that and the unvarnished nature of our coverage, which isn't the standard red-carpet grip-and-grin, has made us stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping an Eye on Celebrities | 8/1/2006 | See Source »

...first learned of the DUI arrest when one of Levin's sources phoned him on midday Friday. When he subsequently heard that the episode didn't occur without incident, as the Sheriff's office had asserted, Levin obtained from his sources accounts of Gibson's actions and comments, as well as the complete report the arresting officer, deputy James Mee, filed that quoted Gibson's statements about Jews. Thus, a scoop was born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping an Eye on Celebrities | 8/1/2006 | See Source »

...parents of Columbine killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold have often been portrayed as disengaged from the lives of their sons and unaware of the dark paths lying ahead. But 936 pages of evidence taken from the killers' homes and cars were released by the Jefferson County Sheriff's office on Thursday, and a notebook kept by Eric's father, Wayne, details a parent's involvement in his child's downward spiral. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 12 students and a teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, on April 20, 1999. They then killed themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Columbine Papers: What Their Parents Knew | 7/6/2006 | See Source »

...Denver Post filed suit to gain access to the papers in 2002. Yesterday, the Harrises and Klebolds said that they would not challenge the sheriff's decision to release the documents. They said they hoped that public access to the evidence would forestall further litigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Columbine Papers: What Their Parents Knew | 7/6/2006 | See Source »

...bigger than life, in the way that all politicians hope to be. Richard Nixon, a president whose insecurities and intimations of unworthiness reached pathological levels, invoked TR throughout his presidency, right up to the mawkish speech he gave as he left the White House two steps ahead of the sheriff. For politicians of the soft and pampered boomer generation - "well-meaning little men," as TR once called the type, "with receding chins and small feet" - TR is a perfect reproof, and they respond by embracing him. Clinton placed a bust of the Rough Rider on his desk. Bush moved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Roosevelt Legacy Bush Shouldn't Carry On | 6/29/2006 | See Source »

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