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...Cobain, and Where the Truth Lies, Atom Egoyan's film of a murder case involving a comedy duo not unlike Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Because Van Sant, from the U.S., and Egoyan, the Canadian, are revered for their elaborate, eccentric visions, we figured we would not get simple tabloid tattle. We came expecting an upscale approach that would anatomize the tawdry headlines and view the sordid spectacle from a remote, ironic height. Art-film gossip is dish best served cold...
...then there is her husband, a one-man supermarket tabloid. A few weeks ago, the New York Post ran a photo of Bill Clinton leaving a local restaurant with an attractive woman, and the political-elite gossip hounds went berserk. Prominent Democrats-friends of the Clintons-were wringing their hands. "Do we really want to go through all that again?" one asked me. I don't know-should the sins of the husband be visited upon the wife? Absent any evidence, the former President should be considered guilty until proved really guilty. But there is another problem: What role would...
...confines of an English boys' school to the streets of Harlem, with several beguiling stops between, Mcdonald records the travails of a small boy, heir to a dukedom, who is orphaned during the London blitz and sent off to the uncertain care of a sodden New York City tabloid reporter. Within weeks the boy becomes the target of a Mafia hit man, thereby allowing the author to mix sociology and satire, goofy narrative and authentic terror...
...members of the British royal family are said to refer to her as "Princess Pushy." And in the British press last week the 6-ft.-tall Princess Michael of Kent, wife of the Queen's first cousin, was at the center of controversy because of the discovery by the tabloid Daily Mirror that the princess's late father, Baron Günther von Reibnitz, was both a Nazi and a major in Hitler's notorious SS. The princess, who was born in what is now Czechoslovakia and who was brought up by her mother in Australia, insisted last week that...
...people," building affordable hotels to draw middle-class visitors to its famed Monte Carlo casino, and popularizing the mini-state, which has no income tax, as a tax haven for foreign businesses. After Kelly's death in a car crash in 1982, he withdrew, facing declining health and regular tabloid accounts of the indiscretions of his rebellious daughters, Caroline and Stephanie. He is succeeded by his son, Prince Albert...