Word: tabloidism
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...turf. Not anymore. In Bombay, a new English newspaper called DNA (as in Daily News and Analysis) has launched an advertising blitz, buying dozens of giant billboards around the city, as it prepares to take on the Times of India. At the same time, the Times launched a new tabloid, the Mumbai Mirror. To thicken the melee, the Hindustan Times, a leading New Delhi paper, also entered the fray. Bombay is currently experiencing India's most febrile newspaper battle, but it's not the only one. In Madras, the Deccan Chronicle is aggressively taking on The Hindu, India's most...
...likes potty humor, not that she casts off guys like toilet paper. In fact, ever since she and Brad Pitt broke off their engagement in 1997, Paltrow has trod gingerly on the subject of her men. "I learned my lesson at 24," she says. Thus, although she dated tabloid catnip like Ben Affleck, there was no "Beneth." There wasn't even a "Pittrow." "It would be a lot easier on Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston now," she says, "had they not talked to the press about each other and everything to begin with...
Actors thrive on this approach too. The production attracted such names as Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin (who play a country-music sister act and really sing), teen tabloid queen Lindsay Lohan (Streep's daughter), Kevin Kline (Guy Noir, the private-eye character on Companion) and Woody Harrelson and John C. Reilly (Companion's singing cowboys, Dusty and Lefty...
...people, in the multiplex-movie sense. They are performers, like the band members, working in public for our pleasure. The only drama is that, omigod, they're doing it! And one of them, O'Brien, is a professional actor. (Stilley, who has done modeling work, got the full Brit tabloid treatment when the movie came out in Britain. Her mom in North Carolina was quoted as saying, "I pray for Margo every...
...July 8), in which The Crimson portrays me as a school choice advocate in a “feud” with an assistant professor at Princeton named Jesse Rothstein. Actually, there is merely an intellectual discussion, and the Crimson should have reported about it rather than engaging in tabloid style journalism. Let me set the record straight...