Word: tabloidization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Simpson lawyer Robert Baker moved for a mistrial, which was denied. Plaintiffs' attorney Daniel Petrocelli asked Fujisaki to sequester the jury for the remainder of their deliberations, citing the likelihood of further interference from aggressive tabloid reporters and book agents, several of whom quickly offered five-figure sums to the dismissed juror for an interview. Fujisaki declined, although he did revoke the courtroom pass of a Los Angeles TV station whose camera crew attempted to follow the jurors' van from the courthouse. He ordered the jurors to avoid all radio, television and newspapers until they reached a verdict...
...least the next 20 years. It is difficult to forecast his future earnings, but Simpson's public image and celebrity still have market value. He has already earned $3 million from a combination of sales of his book I Want to Tell You, of postacquittal photos to the Star tabloid and foreign publications, and of various sports promotions, including cards and statues...
Before Sarah Ferguson captured Prince Andrew's heart and the tabloid headlines, there was American-born Koo Stark, a onetime soft-porn film starlet whose liaison with the prince sparked media madness in 1982. After Andrew returned from the Falklands war, the two were sighted frolicking on Mustique. Stills of a nude Koo from her notorious films were splattered across the London tabs. Koo later married Tim Jefferies, heir to a trading-stamp fortune, but the union lasted only a year. Since then she has run her own photography business. Always discreet concerning her romance with Andrew, she is reportedly...
...searches through all the stories they'd written, looking for sneers at trailer parks or disrespectful references to Dolly Parton. It seemed to be only a matter of time before some self-appointed guardian of professional standards stopped around to inquire whether I had ever, say, dissed a supermarket tabloid for reasons of class...
...your life forever, "the feeling," Bill Cosby described in 1987, "of your child going out to play, going to the store, going to visit Grandma or Uncle, and not coming back home." On Thursday morning, Joanne Curley-Kerner, line producer for Cosby's cbs sitcom, received disturbing calls from tabloid-TV reporters seeking to verify rumors out of Los Angeles. She tried to confirm them with the l.a.p.d. but couldn't, and so at about 11:30 she had Cosby called out of rehearsals for that evening's taping in a studio in Queens, New York. Told about the reports...