Word: gossipists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Every top Hollywood columnist needs a rival with whom to feud, and Haber has found one in Rona Barrett, a TV gossipist for the Metromedia stations. She watches the Barrett show with competitive pride. "Oh, that's all wrong," Haber will scoff at one of Rona's items. Or "I had that but didn't use it." In her success, Haber may face a danger. It was she who wrote in an unkind piece on Barbra Streisand: "Once you are a superstar, there are two choices open to you: you can become a bore or a monster...
...Kent, reporter for the Daily Planet, Superman is heckled by a Winchellesque gossipist with an ego bigger than
Russian-born Hearst Society Gossipist Igor Cassini (Cholly Knickerbocker to his readers), charged with "willfully" failing to register as an agent for Rafael Trujillo's Dominican Republic, cut a rueful figure in court as he pleaded nolo contendere and awaited the judge's sentencing. Short on money for a defense and hopeful of avoiding adverse publicity for his designer-brother Oleg, whom he now works for and lives with, the onetime jet-set traffic dispatcher seemed to have lost his soaring spirits. Says a friend: "His whole life has collapsed. He lost his column. He lost his business...
...lecturers this year include such heavy-duty thinkers as Editor Norman Cousins ("Education and Our Foreign Policy"), Author Vance Packard ("The Changing Character of the American People"), ex-FBI Agent Herbert Philbrick ("Zero Hour for America"). There is still room for the woman's angle with such as Gossipist Hedda Hopper on Hollywood, and Etiquette Expert Amy Vanderbilt ("Gracious Living Can Be Fun"). And it seems there will always be John Mason Brown, the dean of them all, who has been dispensing wit and wisdom for 36 years, is currently attacking what he calls the "spiritual fallout" in writing...
...often as lunch is lunch, it is a business interview: "It's hello and right down to it." By 2:30, Sylvia is in her cubbyhole office at the Post (next to that of Gossipist Leonard Lyons). Her back to the filing cabinets full of background material (which she never uses), she whacks away against a 5:30 deadline. Deadline is sometimes missed in the agony of indecision. Last week Sylvia was working ahead in preparation for a planned vacation with Sumner. But even vacations are no particular rest. On a brief winter idyl in the Bahamas, sunning herself...