Word: tabloidization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...charisma). Weicker uses the R-word a lot, and means it; as a liberal Northeast Republican, he is a conservatives' answer to Bill Bradley (maybe he would have really caught on had he been better at basketball...). More recently, Ventura has been prodding New York real estate mogul (and tabloid fixture) Donald Trump to step forward. The Donald has the celebrity and the brains to be a businessman's Ventura, a perfect placeholder for The Body because he's unencumbered by a demanding constituency or ideology, and might at least grab enough press to keep the dream alive until...
...early '30s are full of clues to America's mood in the first long ache of the Great Depression: frantic, feisty, obsessed with getting a job, a buck and ahead by any means necessary. Today's typical film is a fairy tale; the '30s pictures played like tabloid journalism--the March of Crime. Gangsters, gold diggers, ruthless businessmen, wage slaves and the not-working class all jumped out of the headlines and onto the screen...
Critics say BTM sometimes sensationalizes. Jason Goodman, who produced the Madonna and Cher episodes, says he had to fight for the relatively low-key Heart show: "They aren't as interested in artists who haven't made tabloid headlines." Before his show aired, Lenny Kravitz was at a loss to guess the angle: "I hadn't killed anyone, and I wasn't broke or on heroin, so I wondered what they'd focus on." The show detailed his divorce from actress Lisa Bonet and the death of his mother. Still, Kravitz, like most BTM subjects, was pleased. Says Rosenthal: "Everyone...
...mooning, rear-end shaving, fake vomiting or simulated anal rape. "The people who leave, I don't want to please," he says. "I want to please people who are like me." He says his lack of personal boundaries allows him to wake people up, though he feels his tabloid fame has damaged this ability. "It's hard to do anything crazy," he says, "because people now just shake their head and feel sorry for me." Next year he plans to open the Andy Dick Theater in Los Angeles, a small space devoted to odd performance...
...been losing money for 25 straight years, and Scripps had had enough. The company went up for sale and, while on the market, lost its contract with the New York Daily News, which may well have been its lifeblood. UPI's contract with the also-struggling tabloid was good for $55,000 per month. In desperate denial, UPI offered to let the Daily News hang on to its service for free for months, hoping to win back the contract. Enter the Tennesseans...