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Diana's speech, her longest and most ambitious yet, made all the TV news broadcasts and all the papers. Her message was simple: the child who has been hugged and kissed and shown affection is less likely to demand attention by resorting to self-destructive behavior. But the tabloid press, always searching for subtext, heard the princess's remarks as a personal statement about her childhood, scarred by her parents' broken marriage, and her own marriage, marred by the rigid, distinctly unhuggy codes of royal behavior...
...made up entirely of strangers, no matter how much candy they offer you. But you must always smile for the cameras, even though other kids get to stick their tongues out if their parents so much as reach for an Instamatic. Roll your eyes once, and you will become tabloid material and Saturday Night Live's poster child. For guidance, do not look to Caroline and John Kennedy Jr., who were too little to be criticized, or the Ford kids, who were accidental White House tourists with sleep-over rights. Let Amy Carter serve as a cautionary tale...
PART OF OUR FASCINATION WITH THE British royal family is their almost total inaccessibility. For all the tabloid gossip, tell-all books and TV-movie re- creations, we know almost nothing about what really goes on behind closed palace doors. Thus practically every scene in ELIZABETH R, a BBC documentary soon to air on PBS, is a revelation. Producer Edward Mirzoeff was given unprecedented access to the Queen over a 13-month period (which included the Gulf War and an official visit to the U.S.). We watch her discussing her daily schedule with aides, making small talk with her portraitist...
Consider, for example, a presidential race in which the leading candidate tap-dances and croons torch songs, carries on a tabloid affair with a beauty- pageant entrant and has a running mate who is a national joke when he's not a faceless nonentity. This party's winning agenda consists of one word: love. Americans are urged to vote their belief in romance, and overwhelmingly they fall...
MITCH GELMAN WAS AS GREEN AS CENtral Park when he became a police reporter for New York Newsday, an aggressive urban tabloid. In CRIME SCENE (Times Books; $21), he is honest enough to recall the highs he got from interviewing the perpetrators and victims of shoot-outs, rapes and drug deals. And he is frank enough to describe the many times his stomach seemed "gnarled in knots of guilt." At the age of 30 he was a burned-out case, and moved on to cover health and urban affairs for the same paper. New York City has yet to find...