Whereas at one time, such types of personal slams, untoward remarks or intimate criticism remained the bread and butter of tabloids, soap operas and the occasional, shocking tell-all memoir, this trend has evolved into a wide-spread industry.
Political power, a poignant past and the powder keg present collided magnificently at the Paley Center for Media in New York City on the evening of February 9. Former President Bill Clinton was on hand to give opening remarks for an intimate, yet pivotal conversation taking place on the cusp of a dramatic moment in history.
If "Blue Gate Crossing," which opens today in Manhattan, evokes the loneliness of an age when even the most intimate friendships can shatter over a trivial remark, it doesn't get lost in its own dream world.
The bandying about of a remark she must have considered deeply intimate was the only thing "wrong" or "not quite normal".
I met Lauder by chance at the Neue Galerie, days before the opening, and remarked that, thanks to "Adele," the intimate place may soon have a crowd-control problem.
Boustany said: "The idea of a small and intimate space for the institute came from a remark Bacon made after his legendary 1977 show at the Galerie Claude Bernard in Paris.
The documentary film Dixie Chicks: Shut Up & Sing, released later that year, provided an intimate portrait of the group in the aftermath of Maines's controversial remarks.
Immediately rebuke yourself for having said this, and intimate in the strongest terms that you do not want the remark quotd in the newspaper, especially since Ascot is fast approaching.
Resolutely unvarnished ("I didn't expect an urban slum," Mr. Isaacson remarks on arriving in the capital city, Ulan Bator) and astonishingly intimate, "The Horse Boy" chronicles a couple in emotional and physical extremity.
This diary included intimate details of Amis's final illness and debilitation as well as hurtful private remarks about close relations.
