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...writers faced in this issue was not simply telling a story but also bringing special insight. Playwright and screenwriter Paul Rudnick (In & Out, Addams Family Values) stirred up a refreshing appraisal of the iconic appeal of Marilyn Monroe, focusing on the legacy of her celluloid image instead of the tabloid conspiracies that crowd her persona. The jazz singer Diane Schuur made poignant connections between her own blindness and that of Helen Keller. Rita Dove, America's former poet laureate, produced a tightly woven mini-epic in prose of the moment of Rosa Parks' apotheosis from unprepossessing Montgomery, Ala., matron...
Marilyn's tabloid appeal is infinite but ultimately beside the point. Whatever destroyed her--be it Hollywood economics or rabid sexism or her own tormented psyche--pales beside the delight she continues to provide. At her peak, Marilyn was very much like Coca-Cola or Levi's--she was something wonderfully and irrepressibly American...
...never actually appeared in a movie; in a sense her whole life was a movie, a serial melodrama acted out in public, with every twist and turn of the plot reported to a world audience. Diana was astute enough to understand the power of television and the voracious British tabloid newspapers. And she consistently tried to use the mass media as a stage for projecting her image--as the wronged spouse, as the radiant society beauty, as the compassionate princess hugging AIDS patients and land-mine victims, and as the mourning princess crying at celebrity funerals...
...month before her nuptials to Prince Edward, SOPHIE RHYS-JONES received an unsolicited gift from the British tabloid the Sun: an 11-year-old topless photo of herself splashed across the paper's inside pages. The photo shows Rhys-Jones' former boss, a radio deejay, lifting her bikini top. Despite the unorthodox nature of the office high jinks, the two were apparently not romantically involved. Outraged reaction to the photo's publication came from the usual corners, such as Buckingham Palace, and curiously sanctimonious ones, such as rival tab the Mirror. The not entirely chagrined Sun published a full-page...
...Hurley, in the name of research, to hang out with genuine Mob types in Brooklyn. "They really adored Elizabeth," says Grant. "They say, 'My name's Uncle Mikey, if there's anything I can do for you, anywhere in the world, you come to me.' Some of these tabloid editors here should be looking over their shoulders." And the role lets Grant hone his dazed-and-confused act. While he disputes that he has been typecast, he concedes that he is looking forward to working on the new Woody Allen film in July, in which he gets to play...