Marlise Kast, TABLOID PRODIGY author: Mr. Media Interview

There are people who read supermarket tabloids and – aw, wait a minute. We all know everybody reads the tabs, why lie?

And if there are that many readers, there have to be some pretty good writers and editors. Writers such as Marlise Elizabeth Kast of Globe magazine.

Marlise spent three years at Globe, covering the likes of Morgan Freeman and Mary Bono, Bobby Brown and Madonna, Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire.

She lived through it and wrote a book, Tabloid Prodigy: Dishing the Dirt, Getting the Gossip, and Selling My Soul in the Cutthroat World of Hollywood Reporting.

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You Thought He'd Say Jennifer Aniston?

"Strippers changed my life."

-- Actor Brad Pitt, telling Newsweek's Sean Smith and David Ansen that one of his earliest jobs was driving strippers to bachelor parties. "It was not a wholesome atmosphere," he noted. But the day he was going to quit, a stripper introduced him to her acting coach, Roy London.

Pitt made his comments while participating in the magazine's annual Oscar roundtable. Also on hand: Helen Mirren, Forest Whitaker, Cate Blanchett, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Penelope Cruz. You can watch video highlights from the event here.

Not that it says anything about strippers, of course, but Pitt was the only one of the five actors on Newsweek's panel not nominated for an Academy Award this year.