OK! Magazine Embraces The Dark Side of "The Gossip"



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We can't say that we ever understood the formula for OK! Magazine, which, we gather, went something like this: pay tremendous amounts of money for interviews, write a blowjob puff-piece festooned with lovey-dovey domestic photos (See, he/she's just like you or me!), and hope that people spend money to read PR-friendly stories about celebrities.

That's just not the American way, sweet ass. Haven't those cheeky bastards ever read Richard Hofstadter? Americans are simultaneously terrified and inflamed by Power.

And so we watch with baited breath -- riveted, really -- as OK!, through the wildly unpredictable behavior of Britney Spears and her eccentric application of chicken grease to a couture gown (Exaggerated cough suggesting feigned detachment), finally begins to GET that to us Americans, gossip is a dish best served cold.

Embrace the Dark Side of "The Gossip."