If you tell your friend about something another friend did to you, is that gossip?
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Shattering of Tiger Woods’s carefully constructed public image is grist for gossip, but it’s just a sad story
When celebrity falls, as Tiger Woods did last week in admitting to certain “transgressions,” we rush to the scene, eager for the best view. You know the drill. We scour gossip websites in search of lurid new details. We parse the inevitable public apology. (Was he contrite? Should he have been more specific? Did he write it, did his lawyer?) We become a nation of public-relations experts …
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Shattering of Tiger Woods’s carefully constructed public image is grist for gossip, but its just a sad story
When celebrity falls, as Tiger Woods did last week in admitting to certain “transgressions,” we rush to the scene, eager for the best view. You know the drill. We scour gossip websites in search of lurid new details. We parse the inevitable public apology. (Was he contrite? Should he have been more specific? Did he write it, did his lawyer?) We become a nation of public-relations experts …
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Surely anyone who has seen Troy (2004) would argue that Hollywood does have a habit of creating thier own version of History.
However, should we just be able to enjoy a film without scrutinising its accuracy, or will our children’s children have a uneducated view on past events
The floor is yours…..
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Hi. I am visting new york in december..can anyone help me with the answers to these questions!??
1) Roughly what time does it get dark in december?
2) Can anyone give an approx length of time it will take to get round macys and the natural history musuem?
3) Do you have to queue for ages to get a table at planet hollywood at the weekend?
4) Anyone know roughly how much to get a taxi from times square the ferry port for the statue of liberty?
Thanks in advance!
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history being factual, and hollywood being a hollywood impression.
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There must be a critical consensus over one movie? Does anyone know?
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Here is what I found out about the history:
The sign originally read “HOLLYWOODLAND”, and its purpose was to advertise a new housing development in the hills above the Hollywood district of Los Angeles. H.J. Whitley had already used a sign to advertise his development Whitley Heights, which was located between Highland Avenue and Vine Avenue. He suggested to his friend Harry Chandler, the owner of the Los Angeles Times, that the land syndicate he was involved in make a similar sign to advertise their land. Real estate developers Woodruff and Shoults called their development “Hollywoodland” and advertised it as a “superb environment without excessive cost on the Hollywood side of the hills.”
They contracted the Crescent Sign Company to erect thirteen letters on the hillside, each facing south. The sign company owner, Thomas Fisk Goff (1890–1984) designed the sign. Each letter of the sign was 30 ft (9 m) wide and 50 ft (15 m) high, and was studded with some 4000 light bulbs. The sign was officially dedicated on July 13, 1923. It was not intended to be permanent. Some sources say its expected life was to be about a year and a half but after the rise of the American cinema in Los Angeles, it became an internationally recognized symbol, and was left there.
It became so associated with Hollywood, that in September 1932, actress Peg Entwistle committed suicide by jumping to her death from the letter “H”, as she saw the sign as a symbol of the industry that had rejected her. In 1978, the Chamber set out to replace the intensely deteriorated sign with a more permanent structure. Nine donors gave $27,700 apiece to sponsor replacement letters made of Australian steel, guaranteed to last for many years (see Donors section below).
These new letters were each 45 ft (13.7 m) high and ranged from 31 to 39 ft (9.3 to 11.8 m) wide. The new version of the sign was unveiled on Hollywood’s 75th anniversary, November 14, 1978, before a live television audience of 60 million people.
Refurbishment, donated by Bay Cal Commercial Paintingbegan again in November 2005, as workers stripped the letters back to their metal base and repainted them white. Also in 2005, the original 1923 sign was put up for sale on eBay by producer/entrepreneur Dan Bliss.Bliss sold the sign to artist Bill Mack.
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Since the beggining with Intolerance and The Birth of a Nation till now with Kill Bill and Tarantino Hyperreal Violence.
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Does anybody have ideas of some factual gossip that actually had some impact on history, preferbaly American history?
Anything surrounding a person, event, etc, would be helpful, as I’m writing a speech on gossip and I would like some more concrete evidence than I aleady have. I already mentioned Voltaire, the Trojan Wars, and Ulysses’ wanderings…
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