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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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morning Betty.. enjoyed your article. Thank you . My mom subscribes to Enguirer & Globe & just LOVES them.. I like some of the pix...
She gets her "news" there just like I do at FR.. LOL!
ON MARCH 6, THE Drudge Report noted the fact that newsstand sales for the magazine Vanity Fair had plummeted by 22.5 percent during the last half of 2004, attributed by the editor to three successive covers that showed pictures of . . . men. What Drudge did not cite is the parallel fact that this slide tracks exactly with the mutation of the magazine from a great escape read of the guilty-pleasure variety, the place to go for fatuous film stars, Princess Diana, and society murders, into a Bush-bashing rag of the fiercest variety, one that at times last year seemed almost possessed. More
• Will the political documentary craze never end? A dozen years after his star turn in "The War Room," James Carville is back in "Our Brand Is Crisis," which explores how American political operatives are reshaping campaigns around the globe -- specifically, how Carville and others worked to elect Bolivian President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, known as Goni, in his country's 2002 elections.
The movie, directed by Rachel Boynton, is still searching for a distributor but had its New York premiere Saturday as part of a Lincoln Center film series. The Post's Juliet Eilperin reports that its primary focus is on Jeremy Rosner, a pollster at the firm that Carville ran at the time with Stan Greenburg and Bob Shrum, but that some of the funniest moments occur when Carville and other Washington luminaries (including ad consultant Tad Devine) parachute in to lecture Goni and his advisers on how to win the hearts and minds of poor Bolivians.
Carville, for example, tells his client that when campaigning he should stress that voters shouldn't trust other Bolivian politicians because "they're not going to know whether to wind their [rear ends] or scratch their watches." (And that's why he makes the big bucks.) ReliableSources
Who's that boy? A tall, dark-haired young man has been repeatedly spotted by the side of First Twin Barbara Bush, in both Washington and New York. He was part of the close family circle that joined President Bush and Laura Bush for Easter services in Texas. A White House pool report said he's been "identified only as a friend of the family." Well, perhaps that's the term for beaus these days. Various media sources say the lucky guy is Jay Blount -- like Barbara, a Yalie.
The Yale Daily News says Blount is in the Class of '05 and is a founding member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. In Blount's sophomore year, Yale's Rumpus mag named him one of the "50 Most Beautiful People" on campus. So now you know. Link
...Britney in a striking green bikini... and bless the bikini, it's struggling to keep Brit's new-found hefty bosom tucked in.
The now brunette star is also without her usual trademark toned belly - instead she looks like she might have put on a spot of weight - or is she just pregnant?
Rumours have been lingering for months about whether or not Britney is pregnant - and although it must be driving her mad, she only has herself to blame, after telling everyone and their dog of her plans for kids after she married Kevin Federline.
Recently the star has given up smoking and stopped dying her hair blonde - both signs many are taking to mean she's up the duff and American entertainment columnist Norm Clarke is adamant:
"Britney Spears... not a girl, soon to be a mommy. She's pregnant. Look for the announcement any day now," Teen Hollywood reports him as saying. SkyNews
Martin Sheen is keen to get himself back to the classroom once his long-running West Wing series is over.
"I want to go back to school. I never got my high school diploma and have always felt a need to address that," the Daily Mail reports him as saying.
"I'll be 65 this summer and have received a number of degrees, but no proper education since I started acting. SkyNews
Maybe Marti can go to law school so he can sue his dentist.
I would ask Martin Sheen the same question I would direct to Al Gore: with all your money, why have you never bothered to get your teeth fixed?!
I believe a certain nasty phrase was invented to describe Guy Ritchie. I won't repeat it, but the second of the two words is "whipped."
Last night on the Dose someone mentioned a similarity to a young Tom Hanks (or Tom Hanks son)
Well does this mean BOTH girls have guys?
...A sophomore in Morse, he's not only into music (his band, Jigsaw, played at Toad's recently) but has also developed a life philosophy that extends far beyond his years. He describes himself as a "charismatic showman sent to bring balance back to earth," and works hard to pursue a fun, carefree life that consists of meeting people and listening to their stories, seeing what they have to say and enjoying them for who they are.
Rumpus makes him sound a bit flakey. Wonder what he is really like.
Flab happens.
CNN reported:
Sheen, nee Ramon Estevez, is said to have purposely flunked his college entrance exam to the University of Dayton so he could pursue an acting career. Oops!
Marti must have forgotten what he told folks a few years back.
But Marti is a giving guy. He doodles for the hungry. I don't make this stuff up folks!
Martin Sheen, 2001, Crayon on paper, signed.
Crayon? Oh my sides.
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