Posted on 03/29/2005 4:39:30 AM PST by BigWaveBetty
Spirits were high in the offices of The National Enquirer in Manhattan last week. A gaggle of British interlopers had taken custody of the tabloid, a SWAT team of Fleet Street meat-eaters brought in to revive the storied but now flagging checkout magazine. Not only was The Enquirer moving its main offices and production facilities to Manhattan from Florida - effectively taking the gossip magazine uptown and mainstream - but even more deliciously the paper also had a cover article suggesting that a Hollywood actor's Super Bowl celebration was a bit more super than most.
Paul Field, the Enquirer's editor and a former associate editor of The Sun, a popular British tabloid, was in particularly fine fettle, even though he was fighting a cold. A stripper and prostitute had told The Enquirer that she spent Super Bowl Sunday last month in the company of the star of a popular television show. The actor, through a representative, has denied the allegations. The Enquirer saved the naughtiest bit from the stripper's account - allegations of drug use - for the issue coming out today, the last one produced in Boca Raton, Fla.
In holding off, the editors took a tactical risk that they would not be scooped. "No, I'm not concerned," Mr. Field said, sitting at a table in his office. "No other publication would touch that story," he said, unlike in Britain, where "there would be other papers all over it."
In order to ensure a steady inventory of articles like the super Super Bowl one that will compel checkout readers to actually buy the paper, Mr. Field hired a slew of British tabloid veterans, including Paul Henderson, the former Mail on Sunday investigations editor, and Steve Dennis, the ex-Daily Mirror reporter who broke the stories about Paul Burrell, ...
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Well Gee, thanks for this information.
I am a font of information on popular culture.
I also learned about Butt Dancing from King of the Hill.
Camilla's wedding was postponed for the funeral of the Pope...and now her honeymoon will be interupted for the funeral of Prince Rainier.
Life is not easy for Caroline of Monaco...her third husband is in a coma...
Monaco's Princess Caroline's husband.....
Prince Ernst August of Hanover, 51, was admitted to a Monaco hospital on Monday with pancreas pains and has been in a coma since the following evening,....
Ernst August, 51, has regularly made tabloid headlines in Germany with his explosive temper.
....Stephanie has made headlines with her marriage to a Portuguese circus acrobat, following her liaisons with an elephant tamer and a bodyguard.
Caroline's second husband was killed in a motorboat accident in 1990.
OCSAR-winning actress Tatum O'Neal went on a liquor-fueled lesbian rampage Wednesday night at Meatpacking District hot spot Pop Burger.
At about midnight,......O'Neal ambled up to the bar and started ordering cosmopolitans — apparently not her first libations of the evening. She wasn't there very long when she spilled a drink all over a fellow customer, and instead of acknowledging the gaffe, strolled outside to smoke a cigarette.
O'Neal started chatting up a pretty, blond 30-ish woman she met outside. O'Neal invited her new friend inside for a drink — and then the fun began.
"They started fooling around and were full-on making out," a spywitness told PAGE SIX's Jared Paul Stern. "Then she started feeling the girl's boobs and rubbing her crotch. It got so graphic that the manager had to keep sending a waiter to the table to tell them to stop because they were causing a scene."
The entire crowd gawked at the steamy sapphic embrace, and finally O'Neal and her lusty lady paid the check and got up and left the lounge together holding hands.
O'Neal's rep did not return calls.
ALSO FROM PAGE SIX:
WITH his boss in Rome for the pope's funeral, Vice President Dick Cheney had to fill in at the annual Radio-TV Correspondents Association dinner in D.C. Wednesday night, but he assured the audience he's not planning to fill the president's shoes permanently. "I'm not going to run in '08," Cheney told the crowd. "But I think the Republican Party will do just fine with another candidate. And just to make sure we pick the best candidate, I'm going to head the selection committee." The veep also cracked the crowd up by declaring that those unfamiliar chest pains and shortness of breath he felt recently were diagnosed as "laughter."
AND HERE IS ANOTHER GUESS WHO ITEM...
WHICH younger sister of a much-photographed actress is denying she was thrown out of her elite school in Manhattan after she arrived wasted one morning and cocaine and pot were found on her? Spokespeople claim she's moving to L.A. to be closer to her sister . . .
Masters Tournament players Stewart Cink (from left), K.J. Choi, Zach Johnson, Sergio Garcia, Jesper Parnevik and Luke Donald watch from outside the locker room as the first group tees off on the first hole. Bad weather in the morning delayed the beginning of the tournament until 1:30 p.m. Thursday.
US President George Bush looks on as French President Jacques Chirac kisses the hand of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and former US President Bill Clinton looks the other way, second from top right, after the funeral mass for Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Friday, April 8, 2005. Sitting looking at Chirac kissing Rice's hand is First Lady Laura Bush. At bottom left, is King Juan Carlos of Spain and Queen Sofia with black hat; at top left, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. In background behind President Bush, Palestinian Qureia, widely known as Abu Ala (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini).
This is going to take some serious thinking.
Denise Richards has reportedly banned estranged husband Charlie Sheen from being at the birth of their second child.
The former Bond Girl - who filed for divorce from the Hollywood actor last month - has "too much anger in her heart" to allow him to be present, according to friends.
Sources claim Denise, who is due to give birth in June, is furious at reports Charlie cheated on her with a string of prostitutes - something which he has since denied. It has also been claimed Charlie - who was thought to have given up his wild ways when he married Denise in 2002 - started gambling again, causing trouble in his marriage.
However, a spokesperson for Denise insists she will allow Charlie in the delivery room if he wants to be there.
Denise filed for divorce last month, citing "irreconcilable differences".
Oh my, can't we all just get along? (Not in the Tatum O'Neal sense, of course).
Jeeze, it's good to see you!
I spent much of yesterday at Equine Affaire in Columbus, getting immersed in the horsey biz in which I'll be working to help market the local equestrian center (bppef.org). What fun!
The bride wore an oyster silk basketweave coat with a herringbone stitch and a matching chiffon dress. She also wore a matching straw and lace hat with feather details. Charles, in contrast to the military uniform he wore for his first wedding to Diana, was dressed in formal morning wear.
After spending yesterday around horses and horse people, I'm laughing greatly at your description on the live thread of Camilla as the Equestrian Bride.
Good thing for her it wasn't hunting season.
LOL
Thanks for making me laugh out loud! Love it!
Laura Parker Bowles
Is it a British custom to wear dead twigs on one's head at a wedding for luck?
And now from the dark side:
April 10, 2005 -- MINNEAPOLIS — Sen. Hillary Clinton was introduced by a Senate colleague to the state Democratic Party here as "the next great president of the United States" — and did nothing to deny it as she skewered the GOP.
"We are headed to a brave, new world of extremism, and we need to make clear we're not going there," she told a sellout crowd of 2,000 who paid $100 a head to see her. "We stand against their radical, reactionary right-wing agenda."
She lambasted Republican members of Congress as "extras in the movie 'I Robot' " who "mindlessly rubberstamp the agenda of this administration" and want to do "little more than fund the military and build some highways."
And she scolded President Bush for flaunting a "prideful unilateralism" in the war on terrorism and warned the commander-in-chief that the United States "cannot direct the rest of the world to follow our orders merely because we said so." Ick
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