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...Britain's tabloids are not impressed, however. The Daily Mirror led the chorus slamming the interview, citing everything from the choice of interviewer and setting to Woodward's attire and demeanor as an attempt to echo a famous Princess Diana BBC. More important, is the issue payment for her story. "The issue has assumed a lot more importance here than it would in the U.S.," says TIME London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand. "Reports that her family may have received money for her story have hurt her credibility." The Daily Mail may have more cause than most of its rival tabloids...
...turn of the century) becomes an interesting rear-view mirror at the turn of another century, at a moment when the Federal Government has moved against Microsoft and Bill Gates--the man who, with $48 billion, has surpassed John D. Rockefeller as the richest American ever. Even the tabloid atmospherics of today savor eerily of Hearst and Pulitzer 100 years...
...Brando, that heartbreakingly beautiful champion of the Stanislavskian revolution in acting, never arrived at Hamlet. Never even came close. He would go on to give us a few great things, and a few near great things, but eventually he would abandon himself, as every tabloid reader knows, to suet and sulks, self-loathing and self-parody. The greatness of few major cultural figures of our century rests on such a spindly foundation. No figure of his influence has so precariously balanced a handful of unforgettable achievements against a brimming barrelful of embarrassments...
...pages of the daily papers. The jolt of the work was its off-register blear, its bright-crude colors; but more so, his icy message that the whole world was product. If everything is reducible to an assembly-line image for sale, then Marilyn, Brillo, cows, Elvis and tabloid death are all equal--and equally convertible to cash. Warhol summed up his career with the words, "I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist...
DIED. LORD CUDLIPP, 84, sire of the modern British tabloid who ruled his Fleet Street subjects with a tart tongue and irreverent wit; in Chichester, England. A reporter at age 14 and an editor at 24, he later took charge of the Daily Mirror and shocked its sleepy circulation--and sober content--with bold headlines, pro-Labour positions (dubbing Britain "too damn smug"), prurience (he ran the first photo of a topless beauty) and pluck...