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Ishtar
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The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (OOP)
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The Devils
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The Pirates of Penzance
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The Fortune
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-30-
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Betrayal
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Play It As It Lays
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The Outfit
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Alex in Wonderland
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The Legend of Lylah Clare
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In The Cool of the Day
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That Cold Day in the Park
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Thumb Trippin'
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Midas Run
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At Long Last Love
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Brewster McCloud
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Outcast of the Islands
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Bad for Each Other
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The Phenix City Story
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Run of the Arrow
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House of Secrets
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Saint Joan
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Macabre
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The Fiend Who Walked the West
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Five Gates to Hell
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The Chalk Garden
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You're a Big Boy Now
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Dark of the Sun
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Skidoo
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Last Summer
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The Landlord
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Diary of a Mad Housewife
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Tropic of Cancer
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I Never Sang for My Father
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Sometimes a Great Notion
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Marriage of a Young Stockbroker
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The Music Lovers
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Drive, He Said
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The Steagle
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The Last Movie
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Made For Each Other
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The Day the Clown Cried
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Pete 'n' Tillie
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Slither
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Man on a Swing
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Open Season
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The Tamarind Seed
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Law and Disorder
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Homebodies
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Stardust
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At Long Last Love
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Hearts of the West
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Welcome to L.A.
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W.C. Fields and Me
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Citizens Band
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Twilight's Last Gleaming
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Looking for Mr. Goodbar
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Girlfriends
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Movie Movie
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American Hot Wax
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Hot Stuff
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Scavenger Hunt
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Players
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Rich Kids
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Nightwing
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Screams of a Winter's Night
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When You Comin' Back Red Ryder?
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The Awakening
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Simon
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God's Angry Man
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Fast-Walking
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Twice Upon a Time
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Trouble in Mind
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When the Wind Blows
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Housekeeping
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The Glass Menagerie
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Patty Hearst
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Drowning by Numbers
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Haunted Summer
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The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years
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City of Hope
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The Baby of Macon
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King of the Hill
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Every so often I need to shake my head and remind myself how completely off-the-reservation the tabloids have become in their reportings about alleged movie-star couplings. In the '80s and '90s they used to piece together tidbits from their sources and create speculative articles that may, from time to time, have contained shards of truth. But over the last decade they seem to have gotten into a habit of inventing stuff out of whole cloth. Which their equally divorced-from-reality readers apparently have no problem with.

I'm reacting to, on one hand, a just-published Vanity Fair profile of New Moon costar Robert Pattinson by Evgenia Peretz that includes presumably earnest denials from Pattinson and costar Kristen Stewart that they're in any kind of relationship. And on the other a torrent of tab and gossip-site stories that they're living together, breaking up, etc. All apparently driven by their readers wanting them to be in a relationship, and any semblance of verifiable facts be damned.

In the old days only the surrealistic Weekly World News subsisted on total invention; now the mainstream tabloid family seems to be doing this, at least as far as romantic-intrigue stories are concerned.

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on November 3, 2009 at 9:39 AM

comment #1

Eloi Manning says ...

This is very true. My girlfriend bought one because the front-page headline said something like: "EXCLUSIVE: Inside the wedding of the year!" or whatever.

The actual article was some "insiders close to the couple" speculating what their wedding might look like if they actually ever did get married. Stuff along the lines of "Kristen is a fan of ________, therefore expect to see some at the wedding ceremony!!!!!" Only in the final paragraph did it say something like "Of course, they're not getting married yet, but if they did...!"

I mean isn't that a classic case of false advertising? If Microsoft said Windows 7 would give you a blowjob they'd surely get sued, but these gossip rags print blatantly misleading headlines and outright false stories and seem to thrive.

Women love it though. All of them, even the educated ones. They lap up gossip like we lap up sports.

Posted by Eloi Manning at November 3, 2009 10:19 AM

comment #2

Rich S. says ...

Robert is bothered by all this talk:

http://www.robertisbothered.com/

Okay, so it's not George Carlin. But for Jimmy Fallon, it's not bad.

Posted by Rich S. at November 3, 2009 10:23 AM

comment #3

Ulysses says ...

I have no interest whatever in seeing any of the New Moon films. Kristen Stewart was wonderful in Adventureland, though.

Posted by Ulysses at November 3, 2009 10:24 AM

comment #4

matt cousens says ...

On top of this, Gawker, and plenty of other blogs spend most of their time comparing Rob to Rock Hudson.

Posted by matt cousens at November 3, 2009 10:25 AM

comment #5

BurmaShave says ...

Tangentially, the NEW MOON trailer looks far too much like dumb fun. If it weren't part of such a loathsome cultural movement and just some genre picture I'd probably be down for it. Michael Sheen seems to be having a lot of fun.

Posted by BurmaShave at November 3, 2009 10:39 AM

comment #6

CMAC says ...

comment #2
"Rich S. says ...
Robert is bothered by all this talk:

http://www.robertisbothered.com/

"Okay, so it's not George Carlin. But for Jimmy Fallon, it's not bad"

C says:
Somewhere, Mike Myers is weeping in his scones.

Posted by CMAC at November 3, 2009 10:41 AM

comment #7

Aladdin Sane says ...

Loathsome cultural movement for sure!
I was sitting behind some tweens at a Regina Spektor concert the other day, and one of them was gushing about The Lost Boys and that guy, "I think Keifer Sutherland", to quote the latest victim to this vampire fad.
I hope they discover Blade 2, and all it's ghoulishness. There's nothing attractive about the reapers.

Posted by Aladdin Sane at November 3, 2009 10:46 AM

comment #8

Abbey Normal says ...

I've lost count of all the "Brad's moving out!" and "Angie takes the kids and leaves!" headlines I've seen...an endless stream. Yet there they are, still together and showing no signs of any problems at all. Only the most brain-dead of the Eloi take these rags seriously.

Posted by Abbey Normal at November 3, 2009 12:15 PM

comment #9

Stringer Bell says ...

Too many gossip magazines. Too much competition, so mags have to 'exaggerate' the truth to get business.

Posted by Stringer Bell at November 3, 2009 12:22 PM

comment #10

Jonathan Spuij says ...

I still don't get that phenomenon. If you look at torrent sites the soundtrack gets the most seeders and leechers of all new releases out there.

Posted by Jonathan Spuij at November 3, 2009 12:32 PM

comment #11

Gordon27 says ...

"On top of this, Gawker, and plenty of other blogs spend most of their time comparing Rob to Rock Hudson. "

Ah, yes, the man who, back in the "good ol' days" of real tabloid journalism, would get stories planted in the tabloids about what a pussy hound he was, and they'd print them...

Posted by Gordon27 at November 3, 2009 12:43 PM

comment #12

Eloi Manning says ...

"I still don't get that phenomenon. If you look at torrent sites the soundtrack gets the most seeders and leechers of all new releases out there."

It's not really hard to understand. A romance film with some danger in it, and a choice of the mysterious skinny emo boy and the sensitive sporty muscle man. It's every teenage girl's wet dream.

There's a lot of snobbery surrounding Twilight. It might well be shit, but so are most films, and this one attracts the most ire because it's made for girls, and fanboys don't like films that aren't tailored to their every desire. Reading that fat bearded oaf Nick Nunziata's numerous "Fuck This Face" rants against Robert Pattinson was embarrassing and summed up why fanboys will never understand women, and will instead spend their Saturday evenings with their fetid member in their hands, smearing it with Cheeto dusting while jacking to hentai.

Posted by Eloi Manning at November 3, 2009 12:54 PM

comment #13

corey3rd says ...

How about when the tabloid media claimed Richard Gere and Broderick Crawford were going to break up

Posted by corey3rd at November 3, 2009 1:05 PM

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drbob says ...

Oh yeah, if you think the Pattinson-Stewart meme is bad, I just read on some film blog that the 42 year old director of Nowhere Boy and her 19 year old star are getting married. Will these gossip hounds never cease.

Posted by drbob at November 3, 2009 1:33 PM

comment #15

Jeffrey Wells says ...

That was reported by BBC news, Dr. Bob. They're a fairly reputable news organization, or don't you concur?

Posted by Jeffrey Wells at November 3, 2009 9:06 PM

comment #16

drbob says ...

Sure, BBC news is a very reputable news organization. But, gossip is gossip. It would not surprise me at all if the whole Sam Taylor Wood/Aaron Johnson hookup was pre-arranged by their publicists. I wouldn't bet against this marriage never happening.

Posted by drbob at November 4, 2009 12:53 PM