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...film was "I wouldn't mind if it was longer." He adds, "I don't know if there will be wide appeal to go see it, but I think the vast majority of people who do see it will be moved to tears by it." Matt Drudge, the Internet tattler (who is Jewish), called The Passion a "total tears" experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Vexation Of Mel | 9/1/2003 | See Source »

...about killing people. Sudd's father contacted the authorities, who quickly obtained a search warrant for the homes of the boys. The cops found a rifle and a list of 16 students whom the boys allegedly were going to target. Far from being ridiculed as a tattler, Sudd has been hailed as a heroine in Twentynine Palms, where fellow students hug her and the city plans to honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Legacy Of Columbine | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

ELAINE SHANNON says persuading tobacco-industry tattler and 60 Minutes star Jeffrey Wigand to talk to TIME was like "skiing a double black diamond run." The former Brown & Williamson exec is under a court order not to discuss his years in the nicotine business. "But he could talk about his decision to play David to Big Tobacco's Goliath." Shannon, a Washington bureau correspondent who has covered "nearly every Washington scandal since Watergate," won Wigand over with the persistence and honesty that have marked her 27 years as a reporter. "You're very direct," a DEA agent once told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEHIND THE SCENES | 3/11/1996 | See Source »

...could keep track of all the couples who had met and married at the G, but everyone knew one of the reasons for the blossoming romances: the Tattler, the house newspaper that treated everyone as an enticement. When Canadian Novelist Mordecai Richler visited what he called "Disneyland with knishes," he remembered how, thanks to the paper, "the painfully shy old maid and the flat-chested girl and the good-natured lump" were transformed into "sparkling, captivating" Barbara; Ida, the "fun-loving frolicker"; and Miriam, a "charm-laden lass who makes a visit to table 20 F a must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: in New York: Simon Says Condo | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

...trendy column "The Ear" was only into its second week after shifting from the defunct Washington Star, quoted unidentified "close pals" of Rosalynn Carter as saying that Blair House, where Ronald and Nancy Reagan had stayed in preInauguration visits to Washington, "was bugged" at that time. "At least one tattler in the Carter tribe," wrote McClellan, "has described listening in to the tape itself." The item concluded: "Stay tuned, uh, whoever's listening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boxing The Ear | 10/19/1981 | See Source »

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