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...specialization of news on the information network, Koppel said, would force television to go the way of newspapers and magazines, which have branched into specialized fields such as entertainment, sports and tabloid journalism...
...diva in particular, Maria Callas, is given an entire chapter. "The Callas Cult" discusses what Koestenbaum admits is a gay phenomenon much larger than that of the opera queen. Her life (more, specifically, her affair with Aristotle Onassis) assumed tabloid proportions; she was mainstream enough to be mentioned in Marilyn Monroe movies; and her personality, both bitchy and warm in practically the same instant, is well reputed. He life, in short, was an opera unto itself. In the interview, Koestenbaum agrees that the dead Callas seems even more of a cultural power than she did while she was alive...
...last the real Games begin. But the preliminaries have been fascinating, a combination of skulduggery on ice, murder, accidents and a stampede of tabloid journalists...
...Gillooly credible? In a TIME-CNN poll taken last week, 54% of respondents found his tales more believable than Harding's (26% supported her). Meanwhile, even as the national champion took her case to network and tabloid television last week, only 38% thought she should remain on the team; 52% said she should be expelled. Still, when asked whether Olympic athletes should be held to higher standards than ordinary citizens, 64% said the same rules should prevail. On Saturday, Harding was presumed Olympic until proved guilty...
...female ruthlessness at the office -- in the movie Mrs. Doubtfire (ruthless careerist mom keeps admirable father from his children); in Michael Crichton's novel Disclosure (ruthless careerist executive sexually harasses male subordinate and tries to destroy his career); in Ron Howard's new movie, The Paper (ruthless big-city tabloid editor played by Glenn Close...