Word: tabloid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Could this be the same Glenn Close who scared the lust right out of men's loins as Fatal Attraction's murderously obsessive Other Woman, the one in the wild curls and sexy scoop-front blouse whom a supermarket tabloid calls the "Most Hated Woman in America"? Yes and no. In her TV film, Stones for Ibarra, about an American couple who move to rural Mexico, Close, 40, returns to playing the sort of classy and controlled heroine that won her Academy Award nominations for three of her first four films, The World According to Garp, The Big Chill...
...middle class is a Hasidic landlord who bugs his rent-controlled apartments in the hope that he can learn of a violation that will enable him to evict low-paying tenants. Peter Fallow, the boozy London-expatriate reporter for Manhattan's British-owned tabloid the City Light, is a major contribution to the literature of journalistic sleaze. Lawrence Kramer, an assistant district attorney in the Bronx, exudes the resentment of a young man who has to live in a small, narrow, $888-a-month apartment ("a slot") with his wife, new baby and nurse (paid for by his mother...
Nevertheless, Steinbrenner's poor timing should not obscure the driving force behind his ownership: the principal owner has consistently pursued tabloid headlines over winning strategies. Sure, winning is a fine means of getting in the papers. But there are many more reliable ways, such as punching an obnoxious fan, firing Billy Martin, releasing long and asinine letters to the press, rehiring Billy Martin, calling Dave Winfield "Mr. May," firing Billy Martin again, demoting established major leaguers to the minor leagues; and, finally, rehiring Billy Martin. Again...
Most of that popularity benefits the U.S. firm Walt Disney, which has registered 350 trademarks for its products in China, including 45 that feature Mickey. But unauthorized copying of the familiar mouse image has reached the point that six weeks ago, an official Chinese tabloid, Market, had to warn would-be pirates against the practice...
...lawsuit grew out of the revelation last November by the News of the World, a rival tabloid, that Archer, 47, had offered to pay for an overseas trip by Monica Coghlan, a 36-year-old London call girl. Coghlan had claimed to the News of the World that Archer paid her $100 to have sex with her. The paper urged her to call Archer, who offered to pay her $3,000 for a trip out of the country to escape reporters. The tabloid then published an account of those conversations but never explicitly claimed that Archer had known Coghlan...