Sentences with phrase «tabloid stories of»

Filled with voiceover, direct address to the camera, and occasional freeze - frames on its most dramatic moments, I, Tonya frequently risks that kind of over-explanation as it recounts one of the most famous tabloid stories of the 90s, a saga that has been explained to death over the past two decades.

The Canyons (2013) It's interesting to watch The Canyons outside of the context of its initial release, which was hampered by a transparently troubled production, chronicled in a now infamous New York Times Magazine profile, and tabloid stories of star Lindsay Lohan's various addiction - influenced exploits.

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When Trump previously considered a White House run, Cohen worked with the National Enquirer in 2010 to promote the website ShouldTrumpRun.com and encouraged the supermarket tabloid to pursue stories questioning President Barack Obama's U.S. citizenship, two former staffers of the publication told The Associated Press.

Google observed the rise of tabloid cloaking in 2016 — meaning ads that looked like news stories but ultimately led readers to a site selling a product, like weight - loss pills.

From Royal Baby news to Gossip Girl — style soaps to tabloid magazine pieces about the Hiltons, we love stories of heirs and heiresses and great dynastic families — particularly if those families meet a nasty end.

In a story published Sunday, The New York Times said Trump's longtime lawyer Michael Cohen had received information from both American Media, the tabloid's owner, and McDougal's attorney in the summer of 2016 about the American Media payment to McDougal for the exclusive rights to her claims of an affair.

WASHINGTON — A presidential candidate is accused of arranging hush money to conceal a mistress in a sensational story ripped straight from the tabloids.

Daniels appeared on ABC's «The View» on Tuesday and released a sketch of a man who she said approached her in a Las Vegas parking lot in 2011, shortly after she had sought to sell a tabloid magazine her story alleging a brief affair with Trump.

The world is at the peak of Biebermadness and stories about all kinds of antics are appearing in the tabloids.

Just as the supermarket tabloids don't tell the true story of Brand and Angelina, I try to put out of my mind everything that Christian tabloids of today (sermons, books, Bible studies, etc), tell me today about Adam and Eve.

A tabloid story then accused Hinn and televangelist Paula White of having an affair, something they both strongly deny, but which diminished his popularity at the time.

Do not, just because you have nothing better to do, draw things out of the air and make a big story thereof, and with a headline that could have come from a tabloid newspaper looking to sell copy.

Clearly distraught with the situation the blonde in question has elected to sell the story of the sordid event to the tabloids, a story that is of course resplendent with quotes such as

The player in question has apparently attempted to get a gagging order issued, but has failed to extend the terms of said gagging order so is apparently about to have the whole mucky story plastered over the tabloids.

Most of the stories on these tabloid are speculation and mere imagination of writers begging for recognition.

Surrogacy can seem like a strange concept to those who have maybe only heard of it in celebrity news or read tabloid stories.

One of the Finnish tabloids did a similar story today with a picture of a mom breastfeeding an older child on its cover — have not read any comments on that either, as they tend to be along similar lines that you quoted from Time.

The agency in some instances is alleged planting stories in pro-NPP tabloids over invitations or impending invitation; to be extended to appointees of the former NDC administration, allies and acquaintances of former President John Mahama.

Woe be to the pol against whom the tabloids can wield a story that combines allegations of both sex and corruption.

«I know that most of the attacks are coming from the New York Post,» Mr. Rangel told Observer today, claiming the right - leaning tabloid (and not the New York Times, which ran a front page story about Mr. Cuomo's Moreland Commission) was fermenting the controversy.

In addition to the question of whether Mr. de Blasio — who won a primary with middling turnout and a general with dismal turnout — has earned his stripes to set an agenda for the Democratic Party nationwide, back at home there is the familiar drumbeat that perhaps the mayor ought to pay attention to his own city, a theme that has spread beyond the territorial tabloids and into stories in the city's higher - minded broadsheets.

Tabloids railed against the party's rise and its Nazi origins, without ever pondering the fact that their daily dose of anti-immigrant scare stories had contributed significantly to its growth.

Mr. de Blasio and his Police Commissioner Bill Bratton ripped into the tabloid today for telling «flat - out lies,» targeting a spate of recent stories which claimed bad blood between Mr. Bratton and a top department official led to the official's abrupt departure and that Mr. de Blasio's wife, a key member of his administration, never wanted Mr. Bratton as the city's top cop.

They seem terrified of the tabloid stories that they might get about splits in the coalition.

The matter remains open, too, before the New York tabloids, including the right - leaning New York Post, which often provides an acidic take on the Democratic governor's performance and which first reported the story of Cater's lawsuit Saturday.

Capel said the report «rehashes mistaken claims from tabloid journalists and relies on inaccurate and hyped New York stories of secrecy.»

Under Brooks and then Coulson, the News of the World was a paper at the peak of its powers, trampling over its competition with a string of classic tabloid exclusives: from David Beckham's affair with his nanny to Prince Harry's drug - taking, it consistently landed the stories that shocked, titillated and scandalised.

Upon learning of this exchange, a tabloid newspaper splashed a story that...

If I had left it a couple of years it would have been a different story,» he told a British tabloid.

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Various tabloid stories also erupted from the site: MP Mark Oaten met a male prostitute on the site; Boy George met the model he was later imprisoned for chaining up against his will; Chris Bryant MP used the site replete with a picture of himself in his underwear.

In brief «interviews,» Bobby Cannavale (Ferdinand, Daddy's Home) as a producer for Hard Copy, the tabloid trash - news TV show that clung to Harding's story like a rabid bulldog, notes that this all happened just as the 24 - hour news cycle was becoming a thing and there was a lot of airtime to fill.

One surprising element of The Interpreter is that it is good despite having three people credited with the screenplay, Charles Randolph (The Life of David Gale), Scott Frank (Minority Report, Flight of the Phoenix), and Steven Zaillian (Gangs of New York, Hannibal), and two with story credit, Martin Stellman (Tabloid, For Queen and Country) and Brian Ward (Tabloid).

Make your sappy true - life tabloid story, but at the very least take a small amount of time flipping back over the entire history of music in search of a cut that's more interesting, more vital than the god - damn Passenger — something which doesn't instantly remind you of many other, better movies.

Ed Howard: In all of his films, Todd Haynes takes elements of gaudy tabloid culture and warps them to his own purposes, because he sees — in the lurid stories about sexuality and decadence and violence that we like to tell ourselves, in the celebrity gossip rags and TV news and hyped - up movies — deeper truths about identity, gender, politics, entertainment and sexuality.

The more layered truths behind scandals of the past have made for some great documentaries (particularly last year's «O.J.: Made in America» and «Hot Coffee,» the illuminating story behind the coffee that was «too hot») and a number of recent dramatic highlights, like Aaron Sorkin's upcoming «Molly's Game,» about the woman callously dubbed the «poker princess» by the tabloids.

But for the most part, Gillespie's vibrant filmmaking matches the sheer insanity of the story, a tale which combines a sport that (by design) tends towards melodrama, a soupçon of class warfare and the rise of tabloid TV.

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Director - cowriter Megan Griffiths refuses to sensationalise the tabloid aspects of this harrowing true story about human trafficking within the USA.

It's a fish out of water, rags to riches story that has local tabloid reporters salivating.

He also brought his work along with him, in the form of a stack of paper and a tall, klunky manual typewriter that looked as if it might have come out of one of the newsrooms where he had pounded out stories nearly half a century earlier as a tabloid reporter in New York.

Miss Bala Based partly on the tabloid - grabbing story of a Mexican beauty queen arrested in an SUV filled with guns and cash — and subsequently dubbed «Miss Narco» — Gerardo Naranjo's gripping thriller imagines such a young woman forced into the role.

It's an extremely edgy black comedy that chronicles the way Harding endured various forms of abuse and exploitation — from her mother (Allison Janney), her husband (Sebastian Stan), and tabloid media that covered and actively amplified the lurid story, set at the dawn of the Age of Truthiness.

In commemoration of that milestone, Hollywood filmmakers are in the process of producing not one, but two, biopics of the late porn star: both Lovelace, with Amanda Seyfried in the title role, and Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story, starring Malin Akerman (who replaced Lindsay Lohan after a whirlwind of tabloid drama).

For the third film running, Shyamalan has infused pulpy genre material with a fresh sense of austerity and weight, first with the somber ghost story The Sixth Sense and its wholly original comic - book follow - up Unbreakable, and now with a science - fiction premise ripped straight from the supermarket tabloids.

This Rashomon - style take on a salacious tabloid story attempts to show that, beyond the media frenzy that abused Harding's image and laid the groundwork for what became our exhausting and overwhelming 24 - hour news cycle, the story of the events are still somewhat complicated.

While it's fun to snicker at the real - life idiocy of the conspiracy to injure Kerrigan — carried out, a tabloid journalist (Bobby Cannavale) tells us, by «two of the biggest boobs in a story populated solely by boobs» — the laughter dies, or should die, as Harding gets thrown to the floor by Gillooly, or viciously slapped by her mother.

Almost as shocking as its narrative — which tells the story of literally tens of thousands of children, and the terrible abuses they suffered after in many cases being told that their parents were dead — is the fact that it is hardly known in the United States, where tales of adolescent mistreatment and murder are typically seized upon with a white - hot tabloid fervor, grist for the mill of the 24 - hour cable news channels.

And «I, Tonya» reaches a peak of acrid truth - telling when Harding sits in her kitchen, takes a drag on her cigarette, looks into the camera, and reminds us that among the many vultures picking at her pop - culture corpse were you and me and everyone who clucked our tongues or bought a tabloid or turned up the TV volume on this story in 1994 and ever since.

We get another terrific supporting turn from Bobby Cannavale as the slick and slimy «Hard Copy» producer who explains how Tonya's story was perfect for the nascent Tabloid TV era and confirmed there was a voracious appetite for nonstop coverage of celebrity scandal sagas.