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Category Archives: Tabloid Baby
Tabloid Baby Shut Out Of Pulitzers
Burt Kearns and company write: "We’d say old Sig Gissler and his Pulitzer cronies are simply elitist, liberal j-school snobs who turn up their noses at a news organization that contains the word "tabloid"– until we take another look and … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Tabloid Baby
Tagged luke ford, news organization, Nikki Finke, pulitzer prizes, Tabloid Baby
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Tabloid Baby Likes Teresa Strasser
I love it when my pals get together. Tabloid Baby posts: And then, a couple of weeks ago, from out of the blue, we got a Facebook message from Teresa, explaining why she hadn’t accepted our “friend” request. We won’t … Continue reading
Posted in Tabloid Baby, Teresa Strasser
Tagged impending birth, jeff zucker, luke ford, meredith vieira, Tabloid Baby, Teresa Strasser
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AOL BANS JOAN & MELISSA RIVERS
From Tabloid Baby: After all the talk about political censorship at last night’s Emmy Awards, we just got word that the censorship has spread in the most ridiculous and hypocritical fashion, as AOL has censored and banned Joan Rivers! Joan … Continue reading
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Tagged american humour, free speech issue, joan and melissa rivers, melissa rivers, political censorship, springtime for hitler
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The Klinik
Here’s a new documentary from Burt Kearns and his business partner Brett Hudson: “I don’t want to make a film that says the American way is bad or doesn’t work. Doctors here do great things. They do save lives. “I … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Tabloid Baby
Tagged brett hudson, medical marijuana, nonfiction film, pop music star, radiation treatments, taste buds
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The Seventh Python Is A Hit
Tabloid Baby reports: The premiere of The Seventh Python last night at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood was a rousing success for movie subject Neil Innes, Mods & Rockers Film Festival impresario Martin Lewis and our pals at Frozen Pictures … Continue reading
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Tagged chelsea handler, internet journalist, luke ford, monty python fan, neil innes, Tabloid Baby
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The Seventh Python Premiere
Luke Ford Neil Innes Martin Lewis I caught this movie at the premiere of the Mods and Rockers Film Festival at the Egyptian Theater on Hollywood Blvd. Here are my video interviews. The Seventh Python is a sweet and funny … Continue reading
Posted in Hollywood, Tabloid Baby
Tagged charlie chaplin, fifth beatle, magical mystery tour, mods and rockers, monty python fan, neil innes
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Embedded Reporter Lara Logan Is The New Chief Of Foreign Affairs For CBS News
From TabloidBaby: Sex sells on the new CBS Evening News after all Wow. CBS pulled a fast one. They introduce Katie Couric on the CBS Evening News, all made up and airbrushed and botoxed to the edge, yet they squeeze … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Lara Logan, Tabloid Baby
Tagged bob schieffer, british tabloids, cbs evening news, Lara Logan, mary tyler moore, walter cronkite
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Why Did The L.A. Times Omit Jessica Hahn From Obit?
Tabloid Baby reports: Leave it to the LA Times to leave the most interesting part of a man’s life out of his obituary. Ron Leavitt, a creator of Fox’s landmark lowbrow sitcom, Married with Children, succumbed to cancer Sunday at … Continue reading
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Kinky treats await in Disneyland’s Dream Suite
TabloidBaby reports: Disneyland is revealing the secrets of Walt Disney’s "Dream Suite," the fancy hotel apartment they’re building above the Pirates of the Caribbean ride in the middle of Disneyland. With a Jungle Room bedroom, Fantasyland bathroom, and buttons on … Continue reading
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What The Hell Happened To Luke Ford?
Tabloid Baby reports: Hey! What’s going on with pioneer blogger and charismatic Internet personality Luke Ford? The Woodstein of the pornography industry-turned-conflicted Orthodox Jew has always been a controversial figure, but as long as we’ve known him, he’s also been … Continue reading →