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...biography that fuses meticulous research with a deft grasp of the cultural nuances of an era when virtually everyone who mattered paid homage to Winchell at his table at Manhattan's celebrity hangout, the Stork Club. Gabler captures everything except the essence of Winchell's breathless dot-dot-dot tabloid style. Never does the author parse an entire column or broadcast to make Winchell accessible to a generation that only dimly recalls him as the narrator of the 1960s TV series The Untouchables. A few days before the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, Winchell wrote that the "most fateful hour...
...Frank Rich has called O.J. "a self-perpetuating cultural industry, with tentacles reaching into every branch of show biz." Where there is show-biz, there are bound to be glitter-seekers. A woman who lied about seeing O.J. at the murder scene made more than $10,000 from a tabloid show. Other sleazy tabloids will pay anyone remotely associated with O.J. or his ex-wife to tell them a story. Whether these tales are based in reality or in their own money-hungry delusion is another issue. Jurors, if selected, could refuse to support a majority verdict to later attract...
...find it a bit shameful and debasing to write about O.J. Simpson. I get the feeling that I have jumped on the band-wagon-payroll of a sleazy market tabloid, and that I have a duty to throw raw meat to lions...
...this all TV viewers want from entertainment news? Tabloid shows such as Hard Copy and Inside Edition, for all their voyeuristic overkill, have demonstrated that there is an audiencefor news about celebrities that isn't publicity pap. CNN's Showbiz Today, in its somewhat plodding plain-vanilla style, at least picks up on real trends and occasionally flirts with controversy. (During the recent influx of Cuban refugees, only Showbiz sought the reaction of such Cuban-American entertainers as Gloria Estefan and Andy Garcia...
...spree by freeing his lover from her abusive parents. Juliette Lewis plays the high-pitched, writhing partner and bonded-by-blood lover, Mallory. The two of them kill masses of people but always leave one survivor to attest that Mickey and Mallory Knox were the perpetrators. When are tabloid press gets wind of them, their intention to secure their 15 minutes of fame seem to have come to fruition. To tell more would be to give away the rest of the film, but suffice it to say the substance of the plot ends here...