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Didn't those wags who write headlines for British tabloid newspapers have a field day with this story! YES-SIR-DAY, HARD DAY'S KNIGHT and, of course, DUB ME DO, the papers crowed when it was announced that aging vegetarian, philanthropist and, oh yeah, former Beatle PAUL MCCARTNEY, 54, was to be knighted. All the Beatles were previously given M.B.E.s (Members of the Order of the British Empire), although John Lennon subsequently sent his back as a protest against the Vietnam War. "It's a fantastic honor," said McCartney, "and I'm gratefully receiving it on behalf...
...Crónicas” follows a Spanish-language tabloid news team covering a serial killer in rural Ecuador. The crew, led by the vain and ambitious field reporter Manolo Bonilla (Leguizamo), includes his sensitive and conflicted producer Marisa (Watling) and their good-natured, stoner cameraman Ivan (José Maria Yazpik...
Nearly all the cynicism I had at the beginning of the summer eroded. Even now, I still receive emails and the occasional phone call from the Church of Scientology. (Despite the tabloid reports, nobody ever coerced me into anything. On the contrary, everyone I met was remarkably polite and open...
...mail to India's cricket board which was leaked to the media, Chappell described the 32-year-old as "struggling," "fragile" and "nervous" and suggested he needed to step down as captain to focus on improving his game. The bust-up has riveted India, where, as the Bombay tabloid Mid Day noted, "the game is religion." The spat has played endlessly on local TV, while rival protesters have burned effigies of Chappell and Ganguly in the streets...
...Mike sees a headline about a rabbi and Mayor Giuliani on a tabloid cover – perhaps a reference to the fact that illegitimate priests and corrupt politicians both reside in the same ring of Dante’s Hell. The office-workers who jumped from the burning towers would fit into Dante’s Wood of Suicides. And Mike – who becomes a liar when he claims that “I lost my family in the attack on New York City” – is himself a falsifier, condemned to Dante?...