Word: tabloidization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Collins had a moment of high drama late in the week while being cross-examined by a Random House lawyer. Did she not, she was asked, contend in a 1992 $20 million lawsuit against the Globe tabloid that published photographs of her topless with her boyfriend so distressed her that she was unable to fulfill her Random House contract? "Don't you have any shame?" he bellowed. Showing little of the steely resolve of Alexis Carrington, the character she portrayed in TV's Dynasty in the 1980s, Collins fled the witness stand in tears...
...rises into the atmosphere to form rain clouds, it sucks up with it shoals of fish and sometimes quantities of stones. Fish and stones hover above us in the sky. Elsewhere, Pliny offered an item about a woman who gave birth to an elephant. He was, occasionally, a supermarket-tabloid sort of Roman...
...business, there's no telling what further mess Prince Charles would get into, but not if he had to answer to a higher authority, Michael Eisner. Once Disneyfied, all the royal characters would be subject to the same rules as the regular Disney characters, who don't make a tabloid spectacle of their eating disorders and ski trips. Certain Disney characters speak only in the movies, where they follow the script; when they are sent out in public at the theme parks, they are as mute as Harpo Marx. A mute button would be the best thing to happen...
ROSS BECKER SAYS HE WAS fed up with tabloid television when he left his job as a local TV anchorman in Los Angeles last year and moved to Kentucky, where he now owns an FM radio station. But that didn't stop him from becoming a featured player in the most fervently followed tabloid story of the decade. A week before Christmas, he got a call from an acquaintance, infomercial producer Tony Hoffman, who asked whether Becker would like to conduct the first extended interview with O.J. Simpson since his acquittal on murder charges last October...
...course, recognizing an addiction is the first, most important step on the road to recovery. "I just said, 'Basta!' " explains the host, whose mix of tabloid breathiness and self-aggrandizement discerning readers will have already identified as belonging to Geraldo Rivera. Last week Rivera publicly vowed to clean up his eight-year-old daytime show, long criticized--or celebrated--as one of TV's tawdriest. How would this work in practice? "We're not going to go into the cycle where if you do hookers on your show, we'll do hookers and their daughter hookers...