Word: tabloidism
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...stimulate dialogue but to satirize people's attitudes," she says. "That's why I make fun of religion, nationalism and Norwegian smugness." Rehman is not content to let her humor do the talking, though. In 2000, she posed nude on the cover of the tabloid Dagbladet, her body painted with the colors of the Norwegian flag. "I'm a free woman," she says. "I take my clothes off to provoke the authoritarians in order to expose them." It's a far cry from life in Pakistan, which she has visited once, when she was 15: "I couldn't wait...
...Simpson! Jonbenet Ramsey! Michael Jackson! "Enquiring minds want to know," and the National Enquirer is eager to oblige. No one knows more about the colorful supermarket tabloid than Iain Calder, author of The Untold Story: My 20 Years Running the National Enquirer. What's it like to be at the helm of the paper that put celebrity journalism on the map? TIME met with Calder...
...Tabloid Titan TIME interviews Iain Calder, editor of the National Enquirer for 20 years...
...dogs." Another included a mock obituary for the Welsh actress, who is married to her Traffic castmate Michael Douglas. The letters left the actress "hysterical," her husband testified. Knight, says her lawyer, sent them because she harbored a crush on Douglas and was upset by a tabloid story claiming that Zeta-Jones was cheating on him. After facing the couple in court, Knight took sleeping pills in her jail cell and had to be hospitalized. A judge has ordered her to undergo a psychological evaluation before resuming the hearing...
...Buzz is the murmur that precedes a film's release; it usually starts in a studio's publicity department. But good buzz can turn bad when outsiders see the film and start dishing. (The outsiders are almost never critics. We've been out of the power equation for ages.) Tabloid headlines play a role too. When the stars are Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez and the film is Gigli, the anticipatory mood can quickly sour from must-see to buzz...