Tabloids, '50s style

Picked up a juicy read over the weekend -- "The Bad & the Beautiful: Hollywood in the Fifties" by Sam Kashner and Jennifer MacNair. I'm only a few pages in, but it's already enlightened me about how fierce tabloid gossip was half a century ago. Sure, Lindsay Lohan is under a microscope, but the stars of the '50s didn't have it much easier.
I did a phoner with Mia Farrow a year ago and during our chat she mentioned just how tawdry the tabloids were when she was married to Frank Sinatra. Now, I believe her.
Can't wait to read more ...