Word: tabloidism
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APPOINTED. PETE HAMILL, 61, tabloid columnist's tabloid columnist and best-selling author; as editor in chief of the New York Daily News, the sixth largest U.S. daily; in New York City...
...eventually wrote American Tabloid (1995), a crime novel that transcends the form in its imaginative breadth and depth. My Dark Places, which grew out of an article he wrote for GQ, is Ellroy's attempt to fulfill the second part of this bargain with himself, and it largely succeeds. Readers new to Ellroy may find his clipped, staccato prose disconcerting, particularly when it describes details of his mother's corpse and the procedures at her autopsy. He is also quite blunt about the sexual allure that memories of his mother--he calls her the Redhead--bring...
...must be considered one of the most bizarre of the 20th century, is going to be a father. Exactly how this happened is unclear. The mother, DEBBIE ROWE, 37, a longtime friend of Jackson's (snapped here attending a play with him in April), was reported in the London tabloid News of the World as saying she had been artificially inseminated, but Jackson denies this. He also insists she isn't being paid for carrying Jacko Jr., though there's speculation she's getting as much as $500,000. "I am thrilled that I will soon be a father...
...Tabloid-TV anchors announce a bloody feud between two of Verona Beach's most notorious clans--thug royalty, whose young princes have the family name tattooed on their skulls. The streets of this resort town sizzle with ethnic enmity, with nose thumbing on a nuclear scale, with the attitude clash of drag queens and skinheads. When the hormonal humidity is this high, only fools fall in love. So the daughter of one clan has eyes only for the son of her dad's hated rival. She searches for him in her dreams, by her swimming pool, beneath her balcony. "Wherefore...
Calvert's a sturdy candidate in a new but already Republican-leaning district. In 1993 he became tabloid fodder when the Corona police caught him in his car with a convicted prostitute. Even then, he beat his Democratic opponent handily. This year he is eager to win an election based on issues alone...