Because we live in a shameless age, this genre -- synonymous with secrets, shadows and twisty, hairpin-turning plots that point toward an abyss -- often seems forced when its conventions are recycled in our tell-all tabloid environment.
"I haven't seen a movie she's been in, but you see all the tabloids," he said.
"All the tabloids have been cutting Courtney up for the crazy stuff she's been doing lately," Mr. Crawford wrote.
Awkward, distant and stiff, he often seemed like an android; His line about trees being the "right height" made all the tabloids.
I get all the tabloids put out by American Media, where the Anthrax was found, so I can see what might have made the terrorists mad.
Then she had the big drug problem and all the tabloids got involved and she would start being Minnie Riperton or whatever it was.
All the tabloids can do is express outrage, which means the more respectable broadsheets start to celebrate this unique method actor's "improv" act as a clever deconstruction of modern morals.
He was in the McLaren when he rear-ended a woman's Rover Metro while driving along the A6, which of course made all the tabloids the next day.
Sure enough, his hot take made all the tabloids' home-pages.
