How It's Used

“One of the first new characters that Mr. Morrison introduced was the Manhattan Guardian, New York's first eponymous superhero. The original Guardian appeared in the 1940's; the protagonist was a beat cop who allied himself with tough local kids to punish evildoers. The title of the book reminded Morrison of the British newspaper, which, in turn, gave him the idea of a tabloid's hiring a superhero. But the publication, he quickly determined, couldn't be based on his side of the Atlantic. 'A superhero with a British tabloid would promote bingo with Page 3 girls' he said. So Mr. Morrison created The Manhattan Guardian, a tabloid that employs Jake Jordan, a veteran of the New York Police Department, to protect New York from nefarious characters.”

—Alexandra Starr, "It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s Architecture!," The New York Times, July 31, 2005.

Geraldine Granger, the Vicar: Fairly unusual in a village newsletter to have a Page 3 Girl.
Owen Newitt: That's Brenda the barmaid. Do you like the way I back lit it? You'd never guess she was 65.
The Vicar: Oh, I think we would. Indeed, we seem to have a Page 4 Girl.
Owen Newitt: That's her mother.
The Vicar: And also a Page 5 Girl.
Owen Newitt: Yes, you can't have too much of a good thing.

—Richard Curtis and Paul Mayhew-Archer, "The Handsome Stranger," The Vicar of Dibley, Episode 22, Originally broadcast: December 25, 2006.

“Think of it this way: Fox’s famous cartoon dad, Homer Simpson, if he existed, would read London’s Sun and the New York Post, ogle the cleavage on their respective Pages Three and Six, and nod vigorously over his Duff beer to the thunderings of their right-wing editorials.”

—Rik Kirkland, “Think Again: Rupert Murdoch: The CEO of News Corp. has been injecting his personal views into the press and promoting provocative entertainment for nearly four decades. But the tycoon is no tyrant. He’s less powerful than you think and not the evil genius you fear,” Foreign Policy, January/February 07, p. 26.

“In a conference call among editors and bureau chiefs, one said The Journal would follow the lead of The Sun, one of Mr. Murdoch’s British tabloids, which prints pictures of topless women on its third page.

“‘Rupert has confirmed to me that we will have Page 3 girls,’ he said, according to another person on the call. ‘But in a concession, they will be dot drawings,’ like The Journal’s traditional hand-drawn portraits.”

—Richard Pérez-Peña, “Murdoch’s Arrival Worries Journal Employees,” The New York Times, July 19, 2007.

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Page Three Girls

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