Word: tabloidal
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...critic or a filmgoer, an actor's private life should be irrelevant to the art and glamour he can create onscreen. And there, alchemy occurs. Crowe is often magnificent: attractive, complex, subtle. Watching him slip inside a role is a matter not of forgiving but of forgetting all the tabloid baggage. The lout of a thousand headlines vanishes, and the superb movie actor appears magically in his place. When Crowe is at the helm of a movie, we're proud to sail with...
...whose bathwater he would have declined to drink." His life becomes a struggle to hang on to the norms of civilized behavior. Wrestling with shadows, Xan reels and staggers through some paralyzingly funny satirical subplots involving Henry IX, the baffled and ineffectual king of England; a shameless tabloid hack named Clint Smoker; and Joseph Andrews, a master criminal so hardened he finds himself committing felonies even in his alibis...
...grab of his 15-year-old daughter in the nude. Across the pond, the Sextown Sniper is terrorizing a California municipality set up under legal loopholes as a haven for the porn industry. Simultaneously, sleazy Clint Smoker, who writes a misogynistic column called Yellow Dog for a Fleet Street tabloid of dazzling tastelessness, is hurtling across several plotlines toward a romantic rendezvous with violent potential. What holds all this together? Alas, not much more than glue and stitching. Yellow Dog, sad to say, is a novelist's breakfast. Chapters on California's porn industry read as if Amis were recycling...
When Kate Moss shows up at gallery openings or plunks down in the front row at a runway show, her picture is plastered across every British tabloid the next day. Not that she's the subject of much juicy gossip; the affair with Johnny Depp is long over, and her runway days are currently on hold. But the tiny model, who was discovered in an airport lounge at 14 and went on to launch a thousand waif looks, continues to inspire designers, fashion photographers and even artists. There isn't a stylish woman out there--from Cameron Diaz to Paris...
...thinking, 'How can we destroy the country and pull the wool over the media's eyes?' They think they're better than politicians and that people in politics are all liars. I think that's very dangerous." Campbell speaks with the zeal of a convert; he's a former tabloid reporter who jumped officially to the Labour Party after Blair became its leader in 1994. But in this case he may have the weight of evidence on his side, since Britain's top spies appear to be backing Campbell's insistence that although he did suggest some small changes...