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...female comedians who make it big often do so by finding a particular shtick that differentiates them—consider Sarah Silverman’s hyper-vulgarity, Janeane Garofalo’s liberal dissent, or Kathy Griffin’s tabloid trash-talk. These are comics I personally respect and admire, but I don’t think that their brands of comedy have the broad appeal needed to anchor a mainstream network talk show...
...addition to the daily filming, there have been several tabloid articles in recent years about your personal life. Do you ever become frustrated by your lack of privacy...
...didn't help that in 2008 Mosley was set up and photographed during a pay-for-pain session with several prostitutes. The pictures were duly splashed across a British tabloid. Mosley sued for invasion of privacy and won, but his moral authority was crippled. "We were within a whisker of reaching a spending agreement in 2008 when Max took the hit," says Adam Parr, who heads the venerable Williams F1 team. "After that, we never managed to get the last piece of the puzzle in place...
...more sinister motivations behind the media's preoccupation with Zuma. "Just using the word 'buffoon' harks back to an era of portraying Africans as simple and less educated," Wasserman says. Richard Lance Keeble, a professor of journalism at the University of Lincoln in northern England, says the British tabloid obsession with sex and sleaze drives the type of coverage seen with Zuma. "Add to that heady brew a pinch of unacceptable racism and you can easily explain the tabloid treatment of President Zuma's visit to London this week...
Rank these Olympics wherever you choose. Were they more inspired than Torino, but lacking a transcendent moment like Lake Placid? Perhaps more accomplished than Salt Lake City, but short of the juicy tabloid fodder of Lillehammer? Such arguments are why sports are fun. But a decade or more from now, please remember a singular fact about Vancouver: though the beginning was awful, the ending was pitch-perfect...