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Straying husband? Language difficulties? Persistent dark roots? The Globe has an agony aunt for you: Ivana Trump. In her first column, she brings what the tabloid's editor calls a '90s perspective to readers' problems. "I know exactly how you feel," Ivana tells a letter writer who says her success scares men. "I'm an attractive career woman and a celebrity to boot...
Those producing this garbage tell us we're naive. Natural Born Killers isn't an attempt to profit from murder and mayhem, says Oliver Stone. It's a send-up of the way the tabloid press exploits violence-a claim that would be a lot more convincing if Stone would contribute to charity the multimillion dollar profits the movie earned last year. Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin, whose company produced Natural Born Killers and has put out much of the most offensive music, says that rappers like Ice-T are misunderstood: when Ice-T chants...
...what about the two movies cited as "nightmares of depravity"? Natural Born Killers is, yes, one big mess of a movie. But it actually supports Dole's argument. It says the tabloid media, obsessed with covering the ugliness of underclass American life, encourage emulative behavior among the brain-damaged...
...working on a cover-story about exhaustion; since the president had recently taken a three-month sabbatical to recover from fatigue, its editors likely saw in Rudenstine the perfect cover-boy....In attempting to acquire an unflattering photo of Rudenstine, however, Newsweek crossed the line between good journalism and tabloid trash....Such misprepresentation gives all journalists a bad name...
...tripped over one another to have her on, and CNN covered her press conference live with all the solemnity of a Gulf War update. Then, hordes of reporters were panting for the full skinny; now she can't give it away. Her original tale commanded big money from a tabloid, and Penthouse paid well for Gennifer unclothed. But she waited a bit too long to hawk her memoir; mainstream publishers passed on her book proposal, and she was relegated to a small California publisher, Emery Dalton Books. And despite a 19-city promotional tour and wide distribution...