Saturday, March 22, 2008

AOL Welcome Screen Headline Of The Week

'I Was Tortured.I Was in Tears'

Kate Beckinsale's On-Set Meltdown,
Nude Scene Crisis: What Happened?

I guess there's a few different reasons why this one won. First of all, there's the classic AOL welcome phrase device of using a word ("crisis") to overdescribe a celebrity problem ("Nude scene"). It's a great phrase: "Nude scene crisis."

But also, it's use of the word "torture," especially when seen on the same page as a link to a story about a disabled woman who was literally tortured to death by housemates.

Kinda puts your "torture" in perspective, huh, Kate?

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