Word: tabloidism
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...boss," she says, "is the Chief Executive of Fantasyland!" In The American President, this speech is mainly a meet-cute device--a way to put lobbyist Sydney Wade (Annette Bening) on a collision course with President Andrew Shepherd (Michael Douglas) before they become friends, lovers and the stuff of tabloid scandal. But the line is also a clue to the politics of this witty romantic comedy, written by Aaron Sorkin (A Few Good Men) and directed by Rob Reiner (When Harry Met Sally...). It's a liberal fantasy--a vision of the President as a good man who can coax...
What goes for one of their newspaper businesses must go for all. So when Knight-Ridder told workers striking at its Philadelphia Daily News that it might shut down the tabloid, it had credibility. Nine out of 10 of that paper's striking unions reached tentative agreements with their corporate parent last week to reconcile huge downsizing. When corporations wield such cold power that they can unite with each other to face down their workers, you know that a capitalist conspiracy is in our midst...
...respect anything?" But even the celebrity-obsessed Paparazzo would be shocked at what some of his spiritual and nomenclatural descendants are doing nowadays. Updated with video cameras, they lie in wait, they stalk, they prod, they provoke--all in the hope of selling embarrassing footage to the tabloid-TV shows. They are not paparazzi but an aggressive new breed of videorazzi--or, as Los Angeles-based celebrity photographer Phil Ramey proudly dubs himself and his colleagues, "scummerazzi"--and they have been very active lately...
...National Enquirer: "Celebrities have been punching out photographers ever since the camera was invented." That may be so, but it is unlikely that Mathew Brady taunted Abe Lincoln about his crazy wife. And only recently have the stars had to contend with the intrusive video camera--and the insatiable tabloid shows, always on the lookout for juicy footage of celebrities misbehaving...
...live mouse with a human ear growing out of its back? Surely it's a freak or a fake, something out of a carnival sideshow or supermarket tabloid? No, the startling creature that showed up in newspapers and on television last week is quite real and actually serves a scientific purpose. It is the latest and most dramatic demonstration of progress in tissue engineering, a new line of research aimed at replacing body parts lost to disease, accident or, as is often the case with a missing ear, a schoolyard fight...