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...criminologists also see something new. China's rapidly expanding media have included a proliferation of tabloid newspapers and reality cop shows. Just as Americans believed violent media images were partly to blame for the 1999 school massacre in Columbine, Colorado, Chinese law-enforcement specialists see a link between the recent rash of killings and the violent messages delivered by newspapers and movies. "It seems that the day after crimes appear in the media, someone will imitate it," says Kang Shuhua, director of the criminology research center at Peking University...
...first tackled the subject in his 1964 autobiographical play After the Fall. Critics savaged it ("A shameless piece of tabloid gossip," wrote Robert Brustein in the New Republic), particularly its scorching portrayal of the sexy, unstable singer so clearly modeled after Monroe. A Broadway revival earlier this year was almost equally reviled. You'd think Miller would let sleeping sex symbols lie. But now, 40 years later, he has revisited his marriage in yet another play, Finishing the Picture, an account of the making of The Misfits, the 1961 movie Miller wrote for his wife, which turned...
What Ellroy is most famous for is his crime novels—huge, sprawling works with hitmen, thugs, pimps, whores, victims and perps. His most recent series—The Underworld U.S.A. trilogy, which includes American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand and a not-yet-published third installment—fictionalizes American history in the from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. It covers a variety of events including the Bay of Pigs, the Kennedy assassination and will conclude just prior to Watergate...
...believe somebody is so interested--particularly in all the pictures of me at the grocery store or at preschool ... It's like, 'Is this really interesting? And to whom?'" REESE WITHERSPOON, in an interview, questioning the appeal of tabloid magazines...
...stimulate dialogue but to satirize people's attitudes," she says. "That's why I make fun of religion, nationalism and Norwegian smugness." Rehman is not content to let her humor do the talking, though. In 2000, she posed nude on the cover of the tabloid Dagbladet, her body painted with the colors of the Norwegian flag. "I'm a free woman," she says. "I take my clothes off to provoke the authoritarians in order to expose them." It's a far cry from life in Pakistan, which she has visited once, when she was 15: "I couldn't wait...