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...Singer tops U.S. charts with The Angry American album. International version, Arrogant Annoying Americans, is in the works Losers BRITNEY SPEARS Pop princess cuts short Mexico tour after giving press the finger and ending a concert early. Charm school is finally paying off NAOMI CAMPBELL Supermodel battles with a tabloid over drug abuse allegations. The first step: admitting your lawsuits have become unmanageable DIANA ROSS Fresh from rehab, Supremes diva cancels the remainder of her summer tour. Drag queens around the world cry into their kiwi martinis
...Tabloid reporters are a canny breed. After intercepting an invitation sent by JULIA ROBERTS and cameraman DANNY MODER for what was billed as a lawn party, the paparazzi hunkered down outside her Taos, N.M., ranch and awaited a wedding. Sure enough, it took place, though details proved hard to come by, as the proceedings took place under a tent behind gates on a rain-soaked night. Tabloid reporters also being a skeptical breed, the overwhelming reaction to the marriage seemed to be speculation over how long it would last. After all, her previous marriage to singer Lyle Lovett, also planned...
...perfectly in Hong Kong's money-mad atmosphere, and Lanchester cuts loose, describing her rapid transformation from wry observer to gleeful participant to seductee, a metamorphosis that culminates when Dawn quits to do P.R. work for her shady billionaire Hong Kong boss. Not that the change from British tabloid hack to media conglomerate shill represents a measurable step-down in ethics...
...Hart couldn't match his partner's belt-notches; Dick didn't care about that. But like the demanding city editor on a daily tabloid, he did want Larry to deliver copy. Many people who knew Rodgers said he had the soul of a banker. He went to work, wrote a gorgeous, chromatically sophisticated tune, went home (or to an upper room in Sardi's). He was the fastest composer in the East; as Noel Coward said, mixing envy and awe, "The man positively pees melody." Speed was essential in the mid-20s, when Dick and Larry finally got cooking...
...news. "Murder had a blood red door," Susie tells us, "on the other side of which was everything unimaginable to everyone." In The Lovely Bones, Sebold takes us behind that red door; she imagines the unimaginable and in doing so reminds us that those missing girls aren't just tabloid icons or martyred innocents but real human beings who chewed gum and kissed boys and suffered and died. "Horror on Earth is real and it is every day," Susie tells us. "It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained...