Word: tabloidism
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Peace's lawyer says the prosecutors appeared satisfied with the actress's truthfulness. Others will need more convincing. As further information about the erstwhile porn star leaked out -- that she had tried to sell her story to the supermarket tabloid the Star; that she had claimed to be pregnant by baseball star Barry Bonds -- it seemed possible that Cowlings' and Simpson's lawyers, both of whom have called her story ludicrous, might be able to impeach her as a reliable source...
...Burn! Without a perceptive discussion of Brando the artist, the two books are left only with Brando the celebrity. But that celebrity has long since detached itself from the qualities that made Brando worthy of fame in the first place. It floats free over a landscape littered with tabloid trash, and few remember what he once meant to the very different culture of the 1950s...
...some of the acting (by local nonprofessionals) is spectacularly amateurish; the story is a series of anecdotes about hockey, shopping and loving the one you're with. But it's worth loitering in this shop. You never know what headline will show up on the cover of a tabloid (SPACE ALIEN REVEALED AS HEAD OF TIME WARNER -- REPORT STOCK INCREASE...
...French magazine Paris Match will also publish the photo, but Britain's normally ravenous tabloid dailies have held back...
...juiciest news last week appeared in the tabloid News of the World, which claimed Diana had made some 300 hang-up calls to a well-connected London art dealer, Oliver Hoare, 48. Hoare feared the calls were the work of terrorists who knew his business is in Middle Eastern art. But according to the tabloid, a police investigation showed they were made from phones in Kensington Palace, where Diana lives, from pay phones near the palace, from Diana's car phone and from the home of her sister, Lady Sarah McCorquodale...