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...these films were shown outside the main competition for the Palme d'Or. Hmmm, let's see. Is Angelina in the new film directed by Clint? (No surnames needed.) Then they will be there, if only to spark a new tabloid nickname: Clangelina. (And Brad came too.) Actually, Eastwood's movie, Changeling, is an honorable, fact-based drama about police corruption and child abuse in 1920s Los Angeles, with Jolie somewhat miscast as an ordinary single mom whose son is kidnapped, then found, only for her to discover that another boy claiming to be the son has returned...
...spell the end of Serbia's European dreams. Moderate voices are in retreat. The centrist president Boris Tadic, who publicly endorsed a "stabilization" agreement aimed at starting negotiations to join the E.U, has become the subject of a hate campaign. After the signing of the E.U. agreement, the nationalist tabloid Kurir carried a photo of Tadic and a colleague toasting the deal under the headline "Serbian Pigs Rejoice! They Gave Away Kosovo!" Tadic reportedly received a letter recently accusing him of "treason" and promising him "a bullet in the forehead." Authorities are taking the threat seriously: Zoran Djindjic, the reformist...
...discourse.” They sought, or seek, substantive change. The frustration with cruder attempts is that behind the lip service to “debate,” one senses that there is little of meaning or substance. Instead, these displays are becoming increasingly indistinguishable from the lurid tabloid spreads of Amy Winehouse’s personal decay or Britney’s tiresome new pregnancy. Where’s the line, exactly, between inducing repeated voluntary abortions and mindless stunts like “magician” David Blaine’s several-day stint trapped inside...
...negative comments concerning your personal and professional life. How do you not let it get you down? -Amelia Leung, Auckland, New ZealandPeople gossip about you no matter what. With regard to the tabloid press, my husband and I have been through the whole gamut of emotions. First we were angry, and then sad, and then back to angry again, and then frustrated, and then we wanted to hire lawyers, and then at the end of the day you're like, Really? I don't have anything better to do? People are pretty divided about Martha [Stewart] and anybody who does...
Despite such sweet and sour experiences (including one in 1988 that produced the memorable tabloid headline GAYS PROTEST VATICAN BIGGY), the Pope likes New York and what it stands for. "I think he's really fascinated by the city and what it represents," says Raphaela Schmid, a Rome-based German with the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, who knows him. "It's about people being two things at once, like Italian Americans or Chinese Americans. He's interested in that idea of coexistence...