Word: tabloidism
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...question used to be which Woody Allen you preferred: the later, "mature" one (who made Crimes and Misdemeanors) or the earlier, funny one (Bananas). Now, after the tabloid headlines and a few box-office flops, the issue is starker: Is Woody Allen still a viable filmmaker? In this year's Bullets over Broadway, he retreated to the sort of schematic period piece that friendly critics usually lap up, and they did. Now he has regressed further -- back to his first play, Don't Drink the Water. What's more, he has cast himself in the lead and directed...
...glimmer of history is strongest in Reardon's portrait of Waters, proprietor of the Berkeley restaurant Chez Panisse. In the 60's, as part of Berkeley's student radical movement, she cooked for her fellow activists and published recipes in a leftist tabloid. She opened her restaurant in 1971. A $5 meal included main dish, wine, salad, and a showing of a Marcel Pagnol film...
...after 2,600 employees walked out of San Francisco's two daily newspapers -- the Chronicle and the Examiner -- management tried to get around the picket lines by publishing the news on the Internet. But the strikers put out their own electronic tabloid -- complete with columnists Herb Caen and Jon Carroll -- and were the first to report that Dianne Feinstein may have once employed an illegal alien as a housekeeper...
...hopes of capturing an interview with tabloid queen and Olympic silver-medalist Nancy Kerrigan, unauthorized camera crews and reporters descended on Bright Hockey Center last night for the Eliot House ice skating charity An Evening With Champions...
Like rink staff, event coordinators said they were unprepared for the tabloid press' aggressive interest in Kerrigan's personal life...