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They particularly like his deft black humor and "gift for genuinely shocking his audience" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). Pope-basher Sinead O'Connor portrays the Virgin Mary.
Last week the Enquirer delivered when it said it found out the "shocking truth behind the Zippergate scandal."
So shocking is her appearance that the tabs, which luridly chronicle every celebrity chin waddle and thigh dimple, are now expressing concern about her and other stick figure actresses.
The second half--actually the last seven seconds--takes a radically different, entirely linear approach, using a talking head: General Hospital 's Amber Tamblyn, who plays the almost-but-not-quite-redoubtable Emily Bowen (whose drug abuse--yes, indeed--"sparked shocking and tragic consequences" on GH this week).
But even that is not as shocking as the photos all three tabloids have run of Lewinsky in exercise clothes.