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...video begins with the St. Louis rapper nodding off in a chair, followed by a zoom-in on a table in the foreground. A stack of magazines lies on the table, the content of which seems to entirely focus on—guess who?—Chingy. Tabloid pictures of Chingy clubbing with friends and waxing his car, for example, come alive as he joins BFFs Bobby Valentino and Ludacris in stepping out of the pages. This unfortunately recalls the viewer to recall the latter’s Lilliputian role as elfin DJ Donnie in 2007?...
...publications too poor to pay him anything besides meals and flagons of cheap wine. He eventually began earning notice as a crime reporter on Sydney's Daily Telegraph, but it was only when he went to Hong Kong in 1968, to take up a job on a now defunct tabloid, that his passion for journalism became wedded to his love for a place...
...million into the economy, not all of that $1 million is going to filter into the wider economy," says Jonathan Said, senior economist at the Centre for Economic and Business Research. "A relatively small proportion of what they spend would feed through, compared to a middle-class person." The tabloid headlines scream out FAT CATS GETTING FATTER, but some argue that their contribution to the local economy doesn't matter, saying that the most valuable thing the global rich bring to Britain isn't their cash. Tony Travers, head of the Greater London Group at the London School of Economics...
Today, marriage is an option, not a life sentence. Contemporary weddings may contain the phrase "I now pronounce thee man and man." We suspect that some celebrities get married only so they can make tabloid headlines with adulterous trysts. The frailty of marriage thus gives a few long-term unions--Dana and Christopher Reeve's, Nancy and Ronald Reagan's--the aura of heroism. They offer one final moral: even the famous can tend to an ailing partner with grace and devotion till death do they part...
...heavy, not theme-parky enough.) Disney's latest offering - The Little Mermaid, based on Disney's 1989 animated hit, which opened at Broadway's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre last week - has received the usual fusillade. "Washed Up on Broadway," and "Run for the Lifeboats," ran the New York tabloid headlines. The Times' Ben Brantley, the Scar of the grump brigade, said he "loathed" the whole wretched thing, including even the one aspect of Disney shows that usually wins a grudging cheer, its scenic design. "The whole enterprise," the Times critic sniffed, "is soaked in that sparkly garishness that only a very...