Word: paged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Prepare for the Day Of. Have ink, computer paper, a laser printer, a binder, wads of money, a title page and running shoes ready for the final race to turn that baby in. Watch the writer's eyes start to open. Watch a smile creep across the writer's pale, emaciated face...
...York City, the U.S. media capital, has become a metropolis where most of the newspapers offer not just one gossip page but three or four. They feature glimpses of everyone from sitcom heroes and sports stars to obscure if self- important entertainment and publishing executives, social-climbing plastic surgeons and dress designers, deposed royalty, offspring of ousted dictators and legions of the nouveaux riches or, rather, nouveaux gauches...
Gossip columns may even feature other gossip columnists. Although most practitioners are too competitive to mention one another, they all take frequent note of Claudia Cohen, who moved from "Page Six" at the Post to the I, Claudia column at the Daily News to her current bully pulpit, Live with Regis and Kathie Lee on ABC-TV. Along the way she vaulted into the ranks of privilege by marrying an A-list name, corporate raider Ron Perelman...
...ever, the former President, now 79, emerged from retirement to reprise his role as the chief of state who grasped the big picture but did not bother with the little one. During eight hours of videotaped testimony in a Los Angeles courtroom on Feb. 16 and 17 (a 293-page transcript was released last week), Reagan occasionally bantered with the Iran-contra special prosecutor and with lawyers for former National Security Adviser John Poindexter, who faces trial on five counts of obstructing a congressional investigation and making false statements to Congress. He gave no sign that he had resisted being...
Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, the studbook of the British aristocracy, has decided to join the 20th century. Explaining that "about one in every four children in Britain is born out of wedlock," Debrett's co-editor Charles Kidd pointed out that the 2,300-page 169th edition of the tome, published last week at $205 a copy, for the first time includes the "illegitimate issue" of the titled and blue-blooded. According to Kidd, the change was requested by many people previously excluded. Said he: "Since Debrett's has everything to do with being a book of record...