Word: tabloid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bustling British arts scene. Now he is the bestselling author of a volume of tittle-tattle diaries, the director of a lugubrious new musical about Actress Jean Seberg, and the star of a brouhaha that boasts enough celebrities, sex, money, backstabbing and even cultural significance to fill every London tabloid from now till Boxing Day. Screaming headlines leap to the imagination...
...strategies of a Hitchcock murder sequence, the sass and spitfire of a Howard Hawks comedy, the swooping voyeurism of a Vincente Minnelli crane shot. Here De Palma applies his film-school expertise to Oliver Stone's script to fashion a big, bloody, entertaining tragicomedy that functions both as tabloid journalism (The Rise and Fall of a Drug King) and as cautionary fable. Tony Montana may be exterminated by the hired guns of a rival narcotics boss, but he is effectively dead long before that, fallen not into the gutter but facedown in a candy mountain of cocaine...
...French cuisine at Cardin's elegant new Maxim's de Pékin. Even in rustic glades, jeans-clad teen-agers blast out punk rock from ubiquitous cassette players. Free enterprise has also brought in its wake less innocent forms of freedom. Earlier this year, Story, a tabloid filled with titillating tales of concubines and libertines, was attracting 2 million readers around the country and, according to one Chinese press report, subscriptions from 700 of the 800 pupils at a Shanghai middle school...
Taken as a whole, Murdoch's American properties, from the checkout-counter tabloid Star to trendy New York magazine, are thriving. They earned $14 million last year for his $1.5 billion international empire,*despite New York Post losses estimated at $20 million. The Chicago deal also gives Murdoch's News Corp. the Field Newspaper Syndicate, which distributes such columnists as Evans & Novak and Ann Landers...
...Times has its share of talent as well; Rokyo, movie critic Roger Ebert, and others. In addition, the paper has published award-winning investigative reports. But the Sun-Times is a tabloid, one whose weaknesses existed long before Rupert Murdoch ever saw Chicago. With few foreign bureaus, the paper relies heavily on the wire services; it often runs shortend and unexciting syndicated features; and it has two gossip columnists whose contributions often read like unused scripts for Entertainment Tonight segments. Murdoch won't have too much to change...