Who's Nasty and Who's Nice?

Publication: National Examiner

Date: 13 December 2010



The low rent Examiner, usually in competition with the other Wicked Step Sisters for who can print the most nasty headlines, produces a front cover that is, dare I say it, fair and balanced this week. They have a grab bag story about who is nasty and who is nice, identifying three of each, then they have five pictures of celebrities who they identify inside the magazine. As usual, I didn't open the magazine to find out, but I'll admit I was tempted to do so, and I never want to open up the low rent Examiner.



Here are the three nasty celebrities they identify.

• Dr. Phil McGraw
• Angelina Jolie
• Barbara Walters

I can believe that list.

Here are the three celebrities they identify as nice.

• Angela Lansbury
• Tom Hanks
• George Clooney

Also a believable list.

These are five names they promise to identify inside the magazine as nasty or nice.

• Donald Trump
• Matt Lauer
• Sally Field
• Garth Brooks
• Madonna

Okay, I'm a little curious, but I have a pretty good idea which way each of these goes, at least about the celebrities for whom I actually have formed an opinion.

And the camera noses in to the tears on his face:Tom Hanks mom gave him away!

Publication: National Examiner
Date: 21 June 2010

Usually, the Only Ten Magazines That Matter give us a steady diet of stories about the same people, week in and week out. There are some actual movie stars like Sandra Bullock, Tom Cruise and BrAngelina who are part of the regular line-up, but a lot of the folks who make multiple appearances are D-List reality TV stars. So it comes as a bit of a surprise that the Examiner decides to put a real A-List movie star on the cover, Tom Hanks.

Did his mom give him away? Well, yes and no. Tom is the child of a divorce and he went to live with his dad.