Errol Morris's documentary makes unlikely stars of a former Miss Wyoming and a Fleet Street gentleman
The London film festival begins this week, and – though it's early days to start picking winners – I'm tempted to say that if the festival could somehow, like an American high school prom, crown a king and queen of the festival, these titles might go to Peter Tory, the diffident former diary journalist of the Daily Express, and Joyce McKinney, the 61-year-old former Miss Wyoming. They are the unlikely stars of Errol Morris's new documentary Tabloid, about the strange case of the sexually voracious American former beauty-queen McKinney and her brush with 1970s Fleet Street. It does not have the gravitas or chill of his recent films The Fog Of War and Standard Operating Procedure. But it's a fascinating insight into the pre-history of the celebrity industry: a lost world where newspapers, with buccaneering,...
The London film festival begins this week, and – though it's early days to start picking winners – I'm tempted to say that if the festival could somehow, like an American high school prom, crown a king and queen of the festival, these titles might go to Peter Tory, the diffident former diary journalist of the Daily Express, and Joyce McKinney, the 61-year-old former Miss Wyoming. They are the unlikely stars of Errol Morris's new documentary Tabloid, about the strange case of the sexually voracious American former beauty-queen McKinney and her brush with 1970s Fleet Street. It does not have the gravitas or chill of his recent films The Fog Of War and Standard Operating Procedure. But it's a fascinating insight into the pre-history of the celebrity industry: a lost world where newspapers, with buccaneering,...
- 10/12/2010
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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