Jeff Weiss has a lot to say.He’s in the middle of a Zoom, which has swerved from the early-2000s Los Angeles club scene, to his favorite hard-boiled detective novels, to what it was like in the pre-iPhone era when we all had to print out directions on MapQuest. Charlie Brown …
Read More »Prince Harry Settles Mirror Group Phone Hacking Suit, Lashes Out at Piers Morgan
Prince Harry has agreed to a £400,000 (about $505,000) settlement with a British tabloid publisher found guilty last year of improper snooping into his personal life, the BBC reports. The sum covers legal costs, as well as the initial £140,600 in damages Harry was awarded when the ruling against Mirror …
Read More »Prince Harry Wins Tabloid Phone Hacking Lawsuit: 'A Great Day for Truth'
Prince Harry has emerged victorious in his lawsuit against the British tabloid publisher Mirror Group Newspapers over improper snooping into his personal life. The judge found that the publisher’s papers — including The Mirror, The Sunday Mirror and The Sunday People — had engaged in “unlawful information gathering” tactics, including …
Read More »'May December': Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore's Twisted Tabloid Scandal
Very early on in Todd Haynes‘ May December, Julianne Moore is prepping for a BBQ. Her character, Gracie, is a suburban mom in Savannah, Georgia, idly chatting to a neighbor in a spacious, tastefully decorated kitchen. Her husband wanders through, grabbing a beer before going back outside to man the …
Read More »The 'Fake Sheikh' Who Conned Celebs for Rupert Murdoch
The London tabloid world has traditionally been a sort of journalism Bizarro World, where entrapment is standard practice and news is manufactured on a profit-driven whim, often at the expense of innocent victims. For two decades, Mazher Mahmood strode over this ethics-starved world like a corrupt colossus, enabled by his …
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