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Category Archives: Tabloid Baby
LAT’s Frankenbite
Tabloid Baby reports: Scott Collins has a piece in today’s Los Angeles Times Calendar section about the Writers Guild Strike and reality show writers and is in danger of creating a factoid as he unfortunately gives the wrong definition for … Continue reading
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Adam Carolla Quitting?
Tabloid Baby reports: Is Adam Carolla finally leaving morning radio? For once, the monotonous morning radio offender is keeping his trap shut, and the void is being filled by anguished squeals of panic from fans on his message board. Carolla’s … Continue reading
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Dead Jews Make News
From TabloidBaby: The obituary is one of the most colorful, informative and entertaining forms of journalism, so it’s small wonder that the market has taken off online, turning sites like Legacy.com and MySpace into virtual graveyard shrines. In the early … Continue reading
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Will there be Two Tribes of Israel Baseball in 2008?
From TabloidBaby: First Israel’s baseball dream was a reality. Then it was in shambles. Now there may be too much baseball ahead in 2008! In wake of this morning’s announcement that the Israel Professional Baseball League is moving forward to … Continue reading
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Nebraska: Not Starkweather, but close
From TabloidBaby: Today’s tragic news from Omaha takes us back to the story of Charles Starkweather, the 19-year-old psychopath who took his 14-year-old girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate on a killing spree 50 years ago this month. He’d kill 11 people, … Continue reading
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Israel Baseball Scandal
From TabloidBaby: We told you a month ago that Our Man Elli in Israel, who saved lives, changed the course of Israeli sports history and set the future of Israel professional baseball on a straightforward course for its next season … Continue reading
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TMZ calls Chelsea Handler a “bigot”
From TabloidBaby: Chelsea Handler a bigot? Those are strong words from the loose cannon weekend crew, trying too hard to whip up a scandal after one of its aggressive teams of amateur boys with home video cameras confronted another celebrity … Continue reading
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Time for Shepard Smith’s coming out party?
TabloidBaby writes: With his elevation to $7 million salary level, Fox News reader Shepard Smith has now surpassed Campbell’s Soup pitchman and Food Network producer Gordon Elliott as the most successful graduate of the tabloid television series A Current Affair … Continue reading
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Israel Baseball Scandal
Tabloid Baby emails: "Luke interesting phenomenon ever since elli wohlgelernter sent me his story on the first season of the israel baseball league, the scandal that has led to the resignation of the commissioner (a former us ambasador to israel) … Continue reading
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PRODUCERS SUE X17 PAPARAZZI AGENCY OVER LOHAN PHOTOS; LAWSUIT CHARGES BREACH OF CONTRACT & FRAUD
From TabloidBaby: A pair of noted Hollywood film and documentary producers filed a potential million- dollar lawsuit this morning against the paparazzi photo agency X17, claiming breach of contract and fraud relating to photos of the reunion of Lindsay Lohan … Continue reading
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