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Michael Hui

Front Page (1990), which reunited the three brothers, lampoons the Hong Kong press, while The Magic Touch (1991) satirizes the Chinese obsession with fortune-telling and wealth.


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1990 FA Charity Shield

Carolina Morace scored all four goals in England's 4–1 defeat and made it onto the front page of the following day's La Gazzetta dello Sport.

2009 Brazilian girl abortion case

The Vatican's semi-official newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, hosted on its front page an article highly critical of Archbishop Cardoso's action.

Amado Granell

The image was captured by a photographer and the next day appeared on the front page of Libération.

Arnold Amet

The exchange, which had been filmed, was posted on YouTube, and made front page news in the Post-Courier, the country's largest-selling daily newspaper.

BSAA Star Tiger disappearance

Coningham's death shared the front page of the 31 January edition of the New York Times along with the news of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi and the death of Orville Wright.

Buzz Thomas

Senator Thomas received many recognitions for his service, including being named one of Michigan’s five “Key Technology Leaders” by the Detroit Free Press, One Of Four Up-And-Coming Leaders by Savoy, “Most Dedicated Detroiter” and “Best Local Politician” by Real Detroit Magazine, "A Rising Star" by both the The Detroit News and Hotline, and an "Under-40 Political 'Buzz' Saw" by the Michigan Front Page.

Child murder

In 1992, after the fatal shooting of 7-year-old Dantrell Davis as he left the Cabrini–Green public housing project for school, the Chicago Tribune put every child murder on the front page (generally no murders were front page news).

Coconut doughnut

A mouse munching on a coconut doughnut in the window of one Riese Organization's franchised Dunkin' Doughnut outlets in Midtown Manhattan became infamous in 1998 and was included on the front page of The New York Post.

Confederation of Regions Party of Canada candidates, 1993 Canadian federal election

The Sudbury Star newspaper ran her dramatic gesture on its front page.

Edward C. Lawson

Stern was referring to front page newspaper articles in the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Miami Herald, The Los Angeles Times as well as articles in Newsweek Magazine, Time Magazine, Fortune Magazine, The Village Voice and other news publications.

Elli Stai

She started her career as a journalist at the Greek newspapers Mesimvrini and Acropolis, where she had her first front page with the interview of Giovanni Agnelli.

Emmerdale plane crash

In the 5 January 1994 episode of Channel 4 soap Brookside, character Mick Johnson (Louis Emerick) was seen reading a newspaper with the front page headline "AIR DISASTER TOLL RISES - Village Mourns As Many Die", reflecting the events in Emmerdale.

End of Grey

"Fight Like This" was heard in a UFC promo which aired on September 7, 2007, for twelve hours on the front page of YouTube.

Front Page Detective

Front Page Detective stars Edmund Lowe as David Chase, a newspaper columnist who helps police solve especially difficult mysteries.

Gay Nigger Association of America

On February 11, 2007, an attack was launched on the website of US presidential candidate (and future US president) Barack Obama, where the group's name was caused to appear on the website's front page.

Henry T. Waskow

It was first published a month later, after notification of the next of kin, in Scripps-Howard's home newspaper, the Washington Daily News, which gave it front page billing, and sold out its entire edition.

If It Was Easy

The play is a greatly exaggerated version of a real life article on the front page of the New York Post involving Stewart F. Lane and Ward Morehouse III after the death of Frank Sinatra.

Instant messaging

The topic of inappropriate IM use became front page news in October 2006 when U.S. Congressman Mark Foley resigned his seat after admitting sending offensive instant messages of a sexual nature to underage former House pages from his Congressional office PC.

James Hardie

Journalist Catherine Martin's front-page story for The West Australian won a Walkley award and she produced a series of another nine articles highlighting the impact on workers and their families.

John Gilbert Winant

The remark, for a country that had come through the Battle of Britain and was in the midst of The Blitz, was dramatically on the front page of most British newspapers the next day.

John H. Striebel

Born in Bertrand, Michigan, Striebel began working at the age of 14 as a political cartoonist for the South Bend Daily News, receiving recognition as the youngest front-page cartoonist in the country.

John Henry Pepper

He took out a front page advertisement in the 30 January 1882 issue of The Brisbane Courier to publicise the event, scheduled for 4 February 1882 at the Eagle Farm Racecourse.

Jornal do Brasil

In 1992 the paper published an unflattering photo of Henry Kissinger on the front page.

Lewes Bonfire

In 2001 an effigy of Osama bin Laden ensured that the annual event received more press attention than usual (it featured on the front page of some national newspapers) as did the Firle Bonfire Society’s 2003 choice of a gypsy caravan.

Maggie the Monkey

During her playoff run, Maggie became extremely popular, especially in Anaheim — she was even featured on the front page of the Los Angeles Times.

Margaret Hogg

Peter was 19 years older than Margaret, and briefly achieved front-page news on 16 August 1974 when he landed at Luton Airport as the Captain of a Lockheed L-1011 Tristar of Court Line

Max Finkelstein

A photo of Finkelstein appeared on the front page of the Nazi newspaper Der Angriff, which decried the choice of Finkelstein and the other Jewish officers as a "provocation" and wondered how Americans would react if their diplomats in Germany were placed under the protection of black policemen.

Napoleon B. Broward

The race, expected to be an exciting showdown, proved to be such a bore that election news was pushed off the front page by coverage of Halley's Comet.

Peter Lu

included a front-page article in China's largest English-language newspaper, the China Daily.

Ponteland Observer

From 5 July 1984 it became a broadsheet newspaper 'incorporated with the Morpeth Herald - meaning that the Observer was effectively an edition of the Herald, with the front page and some interior pages changed.

Portrait of Ann

On 1 November 1957 he appeared on the front page of the Manchester Guardian with his proposal for the Academy's Spring Exhibition the following year.

Rhetorical circulation

However, a photo might be snapped of a typo on the front page, and posted to Facebook: this is circulation.

Richard F. Outcault

After he signed on with Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, Pulitzer placed Outcault's comics in a color supplement, using a single-panel color cartoon on the front page called Hogan's Alley, depicting an event in a fictional slum.

Ryan vs. Dorkman

In mid-2006, the short became a viral video after being posted on such websites as eBaumsworld, CollegeHumor, and the front page of YouTube as a "Featured Video."

Same-sex relationship

The 1997 coming-out of comedian Ellen DeGeneres on her show Ellen was front-page news in America and brought the show its highest ratings.

Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection

The museum's decision to show works from the collection of one of its trustees raised some ethical red flags by several bloggers, and gained momentum with a front page article on The New York Times followed by considerable coverage elsewhere, including an editorial in The Art Newspaper by Modern Art Notes' Tyler Green, who had previously blogged about the situation, and responses by Jerry Saltz in New York Magazine.

Stephen Krashen

In a front-page New Times Los Angeles article published just a week before the vote on Proposition 227, Jill Stewart penned an aggressive article titled 'Krashen Burn' in which she characterized Krashen as wedded to the monied interests of a "multi-million-dollar bilingual education industry."

Strange Company

The most recent Strange Company release is a short film adaptation of a Lord Byron poem entitled, "When We Two Parted.", which was featured on the front page of YouTube UK upon its release.

Sunday Referee

In 1925/26 the paper gave front page coverage for many weeks to apparent revelations by the writer Frank Power (real name Arthur Vectis Freeman) about the sinking of HMS Hampshire and the disappearance of Herbert Horatio Kitchener ten years previously.

Sunday World

On 1 November 2009, Northern Editor Jim McDowell attracted complaints to the Press Complaints Commission after the paper published on the front page the photograph of a man hanging from a bridge, having killed himself under the headline "Halloween Horror".

Sunrise/Back to the Future

Run by Tony Colston-Hayter and Paul Staines, the organisation was occasionally front-page news.

The Bulgari Connection

Such heavy use of product placement was not only a novelty in literature but also unprecedented for a published, established author (The Bulgari Connection was her 23rd novel), and a front-page article was published about it in the New York Times, quoting such writers as Rick Moody, J. G. Ballard, Michael Chabon, and Jeanette Winterson.

The Chinese Novel at the Turn of the Century

The front page of the November 10, 1897 Guowen Bao (T: 國聞報, S: 国闻报, P: Guówén Bào, W: Kuo-wen Pao), a newspaper from Tianjin, is used as the front cover of the book.

The Hard Copy Observer

The first edition was 28 pages in length, and featured front-page stories about Xerox, Apple Computer, and Dataproducts.

The Libertines Bound Together

The full front page title reads: "The Libertines Bound Together. The definitive story of Peter Doherty and Carl Barat and how they changed British music."

Wallace Terry

As a reporter for The Brown Daily Herald, he posed as a waiter to get an interview with Orval Faubus, the outspoken segregationist governor of Arkansas, and gained national attention when a photograph of him shaking hands with Faubus hit the front page of The New York Times on September 14, 1957.

Warren Allen Smith

The work received a front-page review/interview in The New York Observer and a CNN interview by Jeanne Moos.

YTMND

On July 17, 2007, Goldberg was sent a string of letters and phone calls from lawyers representing Scholastic threatening legal action if sites revealing spoilers for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows were not removed, in response to several YTMNDs with scanned pages that Goldberg posted on the front page.