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Liz Smith (journalist) Mary Elizabeth Smith (February 2, 1923 – November 12, 2017) was an American gossip columnist. She was known as "The Grand Dame of Dish". [ 1] Beginning her career in radio in the 1950s, for a time she also anonymously wrote the "Cholly Knickerbocker" gossip column for the Hearst newspapers.
Adams's column returned to the Post on September 20, 2010, explaining that she had received intensive care for a ruptured appendix, anemia, sepsis, and damaged heart valves. With gallows humor , she summarized her near-death experience by referencing a recently deceased news icon: "Seems another day and I'd have been interviewing Walter Cronkite ."
A gossip columnist is someone who writes a gossip column in a newspaper or magazine, especially in a gossip magazine.Gossip columns are written in a light, informal style, and relate opinions about the personal lives or conduct of celebrities from show business (motion picture movie stars, theater, and television actors), politicians, professional sports stars, and other wealthy people or ...
Jeannette Walls. Jeannette Walls (born April 21, 1960) is an American author and journalist widely known as former gossip columnist for MSNBC.com and author of The Glass Castle, a memoir of the nomadic family life of her childhood. Published in 2005, it had been on the New York Times Best Seller list for 421 weeks as of June 3, 2018. [ 1]
Walter Winchell (April 7, 1897 – February 20, 1972) was a syndicated American newspaper gossip columnist and radio news commentator. Originally a vaudeville performer, Winchell began his newspaper career as a Broadway reporter, critic and columnist for New York tabloids. He rose to national celebrity in the 1930s with Hearst newspaper chain ...
Hedda Hopper. Elda Furry (June 2, 1885 – February 1, 1966), known professionally as Hedda Hopper, was an American gossip columnist and actress. At the height of her influence in the 1940s, over 35 million people read her columns. A strong supporter of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) hearings, Hopper named suspected ...
The Regency era didn’t offer whole newspapers dedicated to gossip, but many of the papers offered news and columns about the rich and titled and there was plenty of such writing included, and ...
Ed Sullivan (1901–1974), New York Evening Graphic, New York Daily News; Lucius Beebe (1902–1966), San Francisco Examiner, New York Herald Tribune; Matt Weinstock (1903–1970), Los Angeles Daily News, Los Angeles Times; C.H. Garrigues (1903–1974), Los Angeles Illustrated Daily News, San Francisco Examiner; Red Smith (1905–82), The New ...