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...York journalism pool in "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People" (Da Capo; July 4). Kirkus enjoys the dish. "Kiss-and-tell memoir of Young's ill-fated stint as contributing editor at Vanity Fair magazine... This skewering of celebrity worship at the nation's leading 'upscale supermarket tabloid' bears a distinct resemblance to shooting fish in a barrel; nonetheless, Young's language is energetic and engaging, making one wish (along with his father, apparently) that he'd find a worthier subject. Enjoyably bitchy specifics of Cond? Nast culture, buried beneath tedious social analysis and self-deprecation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Galley Girl: Brown Sugar and Buzz | 5/28/2002 | See Source »

There are already signs that Maguire's life and career have changed dramatically. Just days after he showed up on 7,500 screens as Spider-Man, he appeared in the spotlight again--this time on the cover of a tabloid, walking arm in arm with Nicole Kidman. A headline screamed: NICOLE AND SPIDER-MAN RED-HOT ROMANCE! Maguire is a movie star now, and his life has become a spectator sport. He has been romantically linked to a leading lady (Spider-Man's Kirsten Dunst), and now he's a major player in the Kidman-Cruise celebrity-gossip sweepstakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blockbuster Summer: Who Is That Masked Man? | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

...evidence of Kennedy's ambivalence about becoming a member of the media he so deeply mistrusted. Blow describes how Kennedy agonized before conducting his monthly interviews and thoroughly despised negative stories about public figures--particularly if they shared his surname. According to Blow, Kennedy was obsessed with tabloid stories about himself but laughed off the ones that were wildly off base. He was sympathetic to a President--Bill Clinton--who he felt was being lambasted for his private life, and unsympathetic to Clinton's wife, who he believed was exploiting her perch as First Lady to run for office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: This Golden Boy's Life | 5/6/2002 | See Source »

...mother in his apartment three years after a well-publicized conviction in London for having child pornography on his computer, for which he served two months in prison. He lived undisturbed under his given names of Paul Francis until last month, when the U.K.'s Sun tabloid discovered his idyll in a country it dubbed a "pervert's paradise." Within days, Cambodian authorities questioned Glitter, confiscated his passport, and then requested that the singer leave the country or be deported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Usual Suspect | 5/6/2002 | See Source »

...nary a month later, Gelbart, Mencken and Zippel were all gone from the project, and the relationship between Gelbart and Brustein had become tabloid fodder...

Author: By David S. Hirsch, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dueling Lysistratas | 5/3/2002 | See Source »

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