abstract:Front Page Woman is a 1935 American comedy film directed by Michael Curtiz. The screenplay by Roy Chanslor, Laird Doyle, and Lillie Hayward is based on the novel Women Are Bum Newspapermen by Richard Macauley.
Last May 24, the New York Times did something extraordinary: On the frontpage, the paper not only ran a photo of a Massachusetts woman in flagrante delicto committing multiple federal and state felonies and civil torts, but also identified her and the scene of the crime.
Thanks to front-page exposure in local newspapers and discussions on news shows and social-networking websites, the "woman with the blue bra" has seared herself into the Egyptian public consciousness.