Category: tabloids
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Meet the Press: Bullies, Brutes and News Hounds of Noir
Kirk Douglas, Robert Arthur, ‘Ace in the Hole’ (1951). By Paul Parcellin Gossip, Lurid Facts, Scandal Keep the Tabloid Presses Rolling This article contains spoilers, so you may want to see these films before reading any further. When we see a disheveled, groggy Richard Conte breaking into his own office in the middle of the…
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Tabloid Photog Had Eye For Public Drama
“He will take his camera and ride off in search of new evidence that his city, even in her most drunken and disorderly and pathetic moments, is beautiful.” – William McCleery in ‘Naked City’ New York shutterbug Arthur Fellig, AKA “Weegee” (June 12, 1899 – Dec. 26, 1968) didn’t invent tabloid photography, but he turned…