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Tired of "fictional articles about my private life," Hugh Grant won libel damages from a London tabloid publisher. But wags seized on the baked beans he allegedly hurled at a shutterbug the same week. Says blogsite SWANKY BEAST: "Maybe they were going bad and he was just going to throw them out anyway." SCORE...
...Miller ’08) and Phantis (Daniel V. Kroop ’10) are two native “Wise Men” who start out with total control of the King’s actions—they even force him to write and publish a tabloid slandering himself called “The Palace Peeper.” But as Utopia is Anglicized, Scaphil and Phantis get pushed out. They’re none too happy about...
...worth$4.2 billion, but Nina Wang, Asia's richest woman, liked to eat takeout and shop at discount outlets. The saga of "Little Sweetie," as she was dubbed by the Hong Kong press, became tabloid fodder as she battled her father-in-law over the fortune of her real estate--tycoon husband Teddy Wang, who was kidnapped in 1990 and never seen again. (A 2005 ruling allowed her to hold on to the estate.) She was 69 and reportedly had ovarian cancer...
...many formatting changes. I feel that readers have been robbed of a battle-tested magazine structure. I'm well aware that at this point, far too much money and time have been invested to revert to the old order, but the magazine now feels like a sellout to tabloid-size pictures and overzealous fonts. TIME can look forward, but don't lose sight of what you have left behind. Jason Zimmerman, PITTSBURGH...
...ours. "When Henry decides to behead a young woman [his fifth wife, Catherine Howard], it's so obviously a bad thing to do that it's satisfying to the reader," Gregory says. "To judge it gives us comfort and certainty in an uncertain world." Sort of like reading a tabloid. A war may rage on, the stock market may tumble, but things are still O.K. if some sexy young star is behaving more badly than...