Word: tabloidization
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...meet bachelor No. 1: Tom Farrell is the hero of Love Monkey (William Morrow; 336 pages) by Kyle Smith (an editor at TIME's sister publication PEOPLE). At 32, Tom is a hack journalist at a New York City tabloid. When he goes jogging, "it's prose in motion," and his bachelor pad is a "maximum-insecurity facility." Tom ricochets miserably around the pinball machine of Manhattan's bar scene, musing wittily on the state of the modern male and trying to shake an obsession with his dreamy co-worker Julia. You couldn't ask for a more entertaining drinking...
...level, high-volume detractors. In Frankfurt, Schnabel and his Basque wife, Olatz, a stunning former model, were feted like movie stars, with 20 TV appearances, an eight-page spread in German Vogue, and the parallel rerelease of a prizewinning Schnabel film, Before Night Falls. Gushed a headline in the tabloid Bild Zeitung: MR. BIG SWEEPS BACK IN TRIUMPH. One of the best-known celebrity artists New York City has produced since Andy Warhol, Schnabel, now 52, shot to youthful fame in the late '70s with his signature "plate paintings," in which broken crockery is embedded on a painted canvas, then...
...will try to paint the Democrats as loose, latte-chugging elitists. A two-track--high-road, low-road--attack on John Kerry began on cue last week. Republican chairman Ed Gillespie said Kerry had been weak on defense, voting against crucial weapons systems; meanwhile, the Drudge Report and other tabloid patriots spread the rumor that Kerry had improved his looks with Botox injections. But Gillespie had to concede that Kerry had an "honorable" war record, and the Drudge insinuation of narcissism was trumped by the grizzled Vietnam veterans who surrounded Kerry in victory. I suspect, or maybe I just hope...
Depressing bridal planners and tabloid photographers but relieving the rest of the free world, the celebrated celebrity courtship known as Bennifer has at long last come to an end. The ardent red-carpet romance sparked on the 2002 set of their dud Gigli seemed to lose its luster after JENNIFER LOPEZ and BEN AFFLECK called off their September 2003 nuptials amid frenzied media coverage. When Lopez was spied partying with P. Diddy at a Miami nightclub in January, rumors swirled that the exes would reunite. By last week, Lopez's spokesman was confirming that Jen and Ben were done. Bennifer...
DIED. JERRY NACHMAN, 57, feisty New York City newsman; of gallbladder cancer; in Hoboken, N.J. He brought his quick wit, tabloid aggressiveness and (formerly) sizable girth to top news jobs at New York's WCBS-TV and WNBC-TV, the New York Post and most recently MSNBC, where he was editor in chief as well as the host of a weeknight talk show...