Word: tabloidism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...come on, you do too remember Ben Affleck. He and then fiancé Jennifer Lopez were like the proto-Brangelina, the honey pot upon which the insistent swarm of paparazzi and show-biz magazines feasted in 2003, which, admittedly, in tabloid years is the Paleozoic era. They appeared together in two movies that didn't do well but delighted many in their flopitude. Before that, he was a movie star who commanded millions of dollars for movies that usually co-starred a cataclysmic threat and had names like The Sum of All Fears and Armageddon and I Lost My Memory...
...walk around carrying a bunch of regrets," says Affleck about his stint as a tabloid fixture. "There are things that I haven't quite figured out. I don't know enough to say that I've come to any certain conclusions other than that I prefer to be where I am now." Clearly, the public adulation turned savagery that he experienced has left him changed. In a line from the movie that's not in the book, Casey's character, Patrick Kenzie, quotes Matthew 10: 16: "Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves...
...Cunanan did, Reyes hides in plain sight in Miami, where he chats with a bartender and tries to pick up an older man in full view of his most-wanted poster. As the national media grows obsessed with the manhunt, Reyes begins phoning a tabloid reporter following his story, desperately trying to take control of his own image. "I'm a sympathetic subject," he tells her. "Brilliant. Good-looking. So you let me tell you how it's going down." The tabloid reporter ends the show with a monologue about writing a bestseller entitled Most Wanted which she describes...
...days leading up to Brown's surprise announcement, polls had indeed hinted that British voters might want change - from Labour to the Tories. A survey of marginal constituencies conducted by the U.K.'s largest Sunday tabloid, the News of the World, for publication on Oct. 7, showed the Conservatives leading by 6% in the contests for these key parliamentary seats. Earlier polls showed the parties neck-and-neck...
...News That Was Fit to Fake I am happy to see that such a highbrow publication deigned to write about the passing of the Weekly World News, a tabloid that will truly be missed by individuals stuck in the checkout line [Aug. 27]. But I disagree with Joel Stein's claim that it's "a sign of progress for a society to go from inventing gods and monsters to seeking catharsis in the real life of Paris Hilton." That's as laughable as Bat Boy running for President. The Weekly World News lost readers because people turned to the Internet...