NEW YORK: If anything can get professional gossips, nags, and entertainment wags going even more than celebrity rankings, it's a good old fashioned, bare-fisted, knock-down, drag-out, fur-flying magazine rivalry.

People, Time's venerable old glossy of glossies, has, of late, taken a few shots from its young upstart rival, Wenner Media's Us Weekly. But when Ben Affleck first shacked up with serial monogamist Jennifer Lopez last summer, People outbid Us Weekly for the first photo of the couple kissing, reportedly paying as ...