Us Weekly looks like a cheesy gossip rag — and is a cheesy gossip rag

Washington Post
That’s what magazine reviewer Peter Carlson says. Us Weekly — once considered a poor man’s People mag for people who move their lips — is also “a brilliant anthropological study of the folkways, the mores, and the bizarre mating habits of that exotic tribe known as celebrities,” he says.
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