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A gossip columnist is someone who writes a gossip column in a newspaper or magazine, especially a gossip magazine. Gossip columns are material written in a light, informal style, which relates the gossip columnist's opinions about the personal lives or conduct of celebrities from show business politicians, professional sports stars, and other wealthy people or public figures. Some gossip columnists broadcast segments on radio and television. The columns mix factual material on marriages, divorces,pregnancies and arrests, obtained from official records with more speculative gossip stories, rumors, and innuendo about romantic relationships, affairs, and purported personal problems. Gossip columnists have a reciprocal relationship with the celebrities whose private lives are splashed about in the gossip column's pages. Of course, some gossip columnists can engage in borderline defamatory conduct, spreading innuendo about alleged immoral or illegal conduct that can injure celebrities' reputations. ... Read more

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This issue features sexy and/or nude photos of female athletes! Includes pics of Olga Korbut, Cathy Rigby, Nadia Comaneci, Mark Decker, Janet Lynn, Katarina Witt, Chris Evert, Evonne Goolagong, Martina Navratilova, Steffi Graf, Gabriela Sabatini, Tatum O'Neal, Jane Fonda, KC Winkler, Gabrielle Reece, Kellie Everts, Lisa Lyon, Pillow, and many others! ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by The Register Guard on February 10, 2005. The length of the article is 793 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: LUKE ADDS ASSIST TO RECOVERY.(Sports)(Jackson plans celebrity golf tournament to benefit local high schools)
Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper)
Date: February 10, 2005
Publisher: The Register Guard
Page: e1

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SEX. COLLEGE. CHICAGO. OLYMPIC MEDALS. UNEMPLOYMENT. A BOILER EXPLOSION. A 6-FOOT LOBSTER. WRITERS. NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES. PROOFREADERS. A GOOD WOMAN. THE JAVELIN. BILLS. COFFEE. WIVES. DRINKING. ARTISTS. LAWYERS. THE AFTERLIFE. HOSPITALS. ARSON. A CRAPPY MOVIE THEATER. TABLOID TV. CIGARETTES. POOKOO.

It's 1991. Katlin Hillmacher, the human black hole and ex-Olympian, struggles with life after the good times. Julie Martin is a good-hearted mortgage loan officer who loves Katlin, while Pete Warner tells the whole sordid disaster tale from a front-row seat. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (2)

Hits the nail on the head
DL Shiloh hits the nail on the head.His ability to explore the insane obsession with celebrities makes this book current.

The characters in the book are current with today's economic issues.

POOKOO is easy to read and hard to put down.

The narration style, the satire and the descriptions of environments and characters show DL Shiloh is what he does best a "great writer."

I enjoyed this author and I am looking forward to more from DL.Keep it coming DL!

Couldn't put it down...
Pookoo is a phenomenal first novel from author D.L. Shiloh.It's a brilliantly written satirical look at our society's celebrity obsession.Quite honestly, I couldn't put it down.

Shiloh is Kurt Vonnegot for a new generation.A skilled storyteller on the level of Tom Robbins, Vonnegot, or even Ernest Hemmingway

In my opinion, this is the next big thing.

This is a book that is definitely worth your time to check it out.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A sex symbol is a famous person of either gender, typically an actor, musician, model, teen idol, or sports star, known for their sex appeal. The celebrity "star system"?the tabloid papers, paparazzi, and gossip talk shows?play an important role in creating and sustaining the public perception of which stars are viewed as attractive. These media industries are in turn sustained by a strong public demand for sexually alluring photographs or footage of celebrities, including both posed, scantily-clad publicity shots for magazines like Maxim and unauthorized beach or nightclub photos taken by paparazzi with telephoto lenses. ... Read more

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Confusing mishmash of Wikipedia articles
This book is NOT a serious source of information for scholars or people simply curious about this sex-related matter. It was not put together by scholars, researchers, or people who are at all knowledgeable about this field of knowledge.

This volume is literally a bunch of articles literally copied and pasted off Wikipedia literally as is, with literally no clean-up of text or anything else. Literally. The text is very clunky since it was not cleaned up or formatted properly. You can see arrows where on Wikipedia there were links, as well as 'citation needed' and other html markup. Foreign language text along with symbols (i.e. certain math symbols and the like) are also missing from the printed text in this book.

There's nothing with with Wikipedia itself. It's a lovely source of free information, but it needs to be taken with a grain of salt due to vandals and people posting - intentionally or not - inaccurate information. To exacerbate the problem, the original subject of this book actually only makes up part of this volume. If you've read Wikipedia, you are familiar with how some words within the article provide links to other articles (for those curious and wishing to expand their research/reading) and while this can be helpful, not all of the links within any particular Wikipedia article are too relevant to the original subject matter. There is also often a list of other articles at the bottom of any Wikipedia article that are 'See also...' but these articles vary in relevance. Sadly, the 'editors' of this book simply click these links and copy and paste these articles, whether or not they're truly relevant (or even related) to the original subject matter.

Within this volume you will find articles not actually related to sex symbolism itself (Celebrity, Actor, Musician, Paparazzi, and what have you) so in reality very little in this book actually have to do with the subject of sex symbols.

The pictures within this book are also poor-quality, shrunk down from their original versions on Wikipedia and made black-and-white. Diagrams and other technical images therefore become near impossible to read or study. The size of the actual book itself isn't very large, and is about the size of a larger-size paperback, and the text itself is actually hard to read on top of being poorly formatted (some pages actually have rather large gaps/blank spaces)

You're better off reading the original article about sex symbol on Wikipedia for free, and if you wish for longer and more relevant books on this particular subject, you can look right here on Amazon for books written and edited by people who are genuinely passionate and knowledgeable about the subject. ... Read more

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We all like to delve into the minds and lives of our beloved celebrity figures, but this fascinating read is not celebrity gossip, it comes straight from the horse's mouth to reveal all you ever wanted to know about celebrities' favourite football teams and players.With a fitting Foreword by footballing legend Sir Alex Ferguson CBE, this book is a must-read for football fans who wish to know which celebrity is a fellow aficionado of their club, or perhaps a supporter of `the enemy', as well as for the rest of the population, who just love to know what makes our celebrities tick. And it is also a must-buy, as all author royalties from the sale of this book will be donated to The Willow Foundation, a charity set up by the legendary Bob Wilson and his wife Megs in 1999 to enable seriously ill young adults to enjoy the treat of a `Special Day' with family and friends. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Jet, published by Thomson Gale on June 25, 2007. The length of the article is 438 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Athletes and celebrities team up to help youths say 'no' to drugs.(SPORTS)(Athletes Against Drugs )
Author: Melody K. Hoffman
Publication: Jet (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 25, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 111Issue: 25Page: 48(2)

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"Celebrity Fish Talk" amuses and amazes while feeding the publicÂ’s insatiable appetite for peeking into the private lives of stars from Hollywood, TV, music and sports.

It reveals a lighter, human side of the rich and famous as they share a humorous tale, a poignant moment or a death-defying act on the stage of AmericaÂ’s favorite pastime -- fishing.

With the support of a fraternity brother -- actor and angler Kevin Costner -- author Dave Strege made an exhaustive search to produce a first-of-its-kind book about celebrities and fishing.

Read about... * Why a dog bit country western star Vince Gill. * How Kevin Costner faced his own "Perfect Storm." * How Tonight Show host Jay Leno faked catching fish as a kid to please his father. * Why the legendary Ted Williams would have chosen fishing over baseball had he been able to do everything over again. * What propelled actor Samuel L. Jackson out of the boat and into the air. * What actor Andy Garcia caught with a broomstick. * How Coach Bobby Knight, fishing with Ted Williams, managed to reel in a trophy Atlantic salmon after the reel handle broke off. * Who caught country western star Chris LeDoux fishing naked. * How former golfing great Johnny Miller caught an alligator and took it back to the hotel to show his kids. * Why Deion Sanders experienced a brush with the law while fishing.

Tiger Woods, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, Charlton Heston, Alice Cooper, Curt Gowdy, Greg Norman, Tracy Byrd, Dan Rather, Clint Black, Clay Walker, Michael Chiklis, Cheryl Ladd, Pat OÂ’Brien, Nancy OÂ’Dell, Matt Lauer, Sugar Ray Leonard, Oscar De La Hoya, Evel Knievel, Nolan Ryan, Cheech Marin, Anthony Edwards, Rush Limbaugh, Wayne Gretzky and Kathy Ireland are among the many others who share stories or talk fishing.

Woven into distinct chapters, the celebrity fishing yarns are introduced with narratives that tickle the funny bone, pump the adrenaline or just plain entertain.

Enjoy the poetic description of fly-fishing and a behind-the-scenes look at Brad Pitt and the making of "A River Runs Through It."

Read about how an angler, strapped into a fishing harness, survived after being pulled overboard by a huge tuna and how a spearfisherman survived a shark attack.

Learn about the crazy carp in the Mississippi and Missouri rivers that are literally jumping into boats like crazy.

Laugh at funny game-warden stories, practical jokes in fishing and the out-takes produced by some of the most well-known fishing stars on TV.

Read about U.S. presidents, passionate fishermen and the one that got away.

In Mother NatureÂ’s neighborhood, celebrities are just like average Joe Angler. They enjoy fishing, and they have a fish story.

As former tennis great Michael Chang said, "Anyone who loves fishing always has some kind of fish stories."

We think youÂ’ll enjoy them. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by Thomson Gale on June 10, 2007. The length of the article is 999 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: China's golden boy.(Sports)(Liu Xiang deals with the celebrity that comes with being China's first track gold medalist)
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper)
Date: June 10, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Page: D1

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"Strike out the skinny bum. Send him back to Korea!" These words, yelled by baseball fans during a game in Shibe Park, and referring to Ted Williams, first fired Ted Blood with the idea of writing a book about the Splendid Splinter and his long-time difficulties with sportswriters. "The average fan, or man in the street, actually does not know how truly great the Splinter was or is," Mr. Blood writes, "both as a devastating hitter and as a fine fielder. They do not know a single fact about his charities, nor about his generous and unlimited help and advice to hundreds of young and old baseball players. Actually the fans are not to blame for their cursing and booing of our skinny hero. The sportswriters, at least some of them around the East and especially a few around Boston and New York, are to blame. They have painted a black picture so well that many fans jeer and curse the Splinter because they really believe he is a prize jerk, a poor sport, a hothead, a selfish, conceited bore, a lousy outfielder, a true villain." With a zealot's ardor and a veritable almanac of facts, Mr. Blood here refutes these canards. "A truly great sportsman," the author calls Williams, "the most deadly hitter of all time and one of the greatest fishermen in the whole wide world... a real, live heman, a gentleman." The author extols the splinter's charitable work, his kindness and consideration, his greatness as a baseball player and his record as a war hero. He also explodes such stories as that Williams was deliberately off in the Everglades, fishing, when his wife gave birth to a baby daughter. This is a book that will capture the imagination of anyone who has ever thrilled to the cry: "Play ball!" and one that will arouse controversy in dugouts and bleachers and, in fact, wherever baseball players and fans gather. It will also show the would-be ballplayer how baseball "greats" are made. --- from book's dustjacket ... Read more