Word: tabloidization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the bodies of Ronald Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson were discovered on June 13, National Enquirer editors must have thought they had died and gone to tabloid heaven. Enquirer staff members arrived on the scene outside Nicole's Brentwood home at about the same time as the Los Angeles coroner, and since then as many as 20 reporters have been running down everyone even tangentially connected to the case, dogging distant relatives for photos and dangling cash in front of household employees and store clerks. In fact the Enquirer has pursued the O.J. story so aggressively that...
Earthquakes. political upheaval. Incomprehensible acts of violence, sometimes engulfing whole countries. Tabloid spectacle... 1994 proved to be a memorable, if occasionally frightening, year for photojournalists. Here, on the following pages, are the year's most compelling news photos -- and the often disturbing stories behind them...
...question used to be which Woody Allen you preferred: the later, "mature" one (who made Crimes and Misdemeanors) or the earlier, funny one (Bananas). Now, after the tabloid headlines and a few box-office flops, the issue is starker: Is Woody Allen still a viable filmmaker? In this year's Bullets over Broadway, he retreated to the sort of schematic period piece that friendly critics usually lap up, and they did. Now he has regressed further -- back to his first play, Don't Drink the Water. What's more, he has cast himself in the lead and directed...
...glimmer of history is strongest in Reardon's portrait of Waters, proprietor of the Berkeley restaurant Chez Panisse. In the 60's, as part of Berkeley's student radical movement, she cooked for her fellow activists and published recipes in a leftist tabloid. She opened her restaurant in 1971. A $5 meal included main dish, wine, salad, and a showing of a Marcel Pagnol film...
...after 2,600 employees walked out of San Francisco's two daily newspapers -- the Chronicle and the Examiner -- management tried to get around the picket lines by publishing the news on the Internet. But the strikers put out their own electronic tabloid -- complete with columnists Herb Caen and Jon Carroll -- and were the first to report that Dianne Feinstein may have once employed an illegal alien as a housekeeper...