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...Obama off his stride and keeping the Republican nominee very much in the presidential hunt in a dismal year for Republicans. But the tactics also contained the potential for long-term political costs by distracting from, or eroding, the central McCain message. By comparing Obama to a vacuous Hollywood starlet, McCain found a coherent critique of Obama but relinquished his own ability to rise above the political maw. By choosing Sarah Palin, he lit a grass fire of GOP enthusiasm but risked undermining his ticket's claim of having greater experience and putting "country first." By attacking Obama's "lipstick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Behind McCain's Nosedive | 10/1/2008 | See Source »

During his much publicized bachelorhood, Britain's Prince Andrew earned the nickname ''Randy Andy'' for squiring a variety of comely young women about town. The most famous of them was soft-porn Film Starlet Koo Stark. Now Andrew, 26, who is to wed Sarah Ferguson next month, is polishing his image. In a fund-raising speech before a group of London businessmen last week, Andrew decried loose morals. Said he: ''Moral pollution may well be a strong phrase to use, but I feel that it is justified, particularly when you look at the amount of gratuitous violence purveyed on television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WORLD NOTES BRITAIN RANDY ANDY'S NEW TUNE | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

...Luckily, as success arrives, so does the lap-dancing affection of Jill, Ben’s once-unattainable crush played by starlet Kate Bosworth. Little by little, it becomes clear that the film’s alterations were, as Ma admitted, less concerned with working out narrative kinks and more intent on sanding inconvenient, unusual reality down to the blanched, manicured trifle that cinemagoers demonstrably know and love...

Author: By James M. Larkin | Title: A Shameless Bust | 4/13/2008 | See Source »

Hilton arrived shortly before 1 a.m., as Sean Paul’s 2003 hit “Get Busy” blared on the club’s speakers. While partygoers screamed with enthusiasm, the blonde starlet strolled through a VIP section packed with Grey Goose-swilling Harvard Lampoon and Final Club members, eventually settling at a visible corner table...

Author: By Claire M. Guehenno and Samuel C. Scott, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: One Night With Paris: Socialite Parties with Spee Boys and ’Poonsters | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

...Teen starlet HAYDEN PANETTIERE of NBC's Heroes paddled out to sea in Japan alongside animal activists to disrupt a dolphin hunt. She was turned back; the boat-hook-wielding fishermen were clearly not fans of her brand of celebrity activism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 19, 2007 | 11/8/2007 | See Source »

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