Liz Smith, the longtime queen of New York’s tabloid gossip columns, who for more than three decades chronicled little triumphs and trespasses in the soap-opera lives of the rich, the famous and the merely beautiful, died on Sunday at her home in Manhattan. She was 94.
Before the internet even existed, brave dramanauts plumbed the depths of human stupidity.
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Back in New York, she worked for Mike Wallace at CBS Radio and Dave Garroway's "Wide Wide World" on NBC-TV.In 1959, Igor Cassini, who wrote the Cholly Knickerbocker gossip column for The New York Journal-American, hired her to interview celebrities at nightclubs and to write the column during his vacations.
Besides her columns for The Daily News, Newsday and The New York Post, she worked for many years as a commentator for WNBC-TV, the local Fox channel in New York and E! Entertainment Television.
Long before her "Liz Smith" column ended in The Post in February 2009 - after being cut to three times a week in 2008 - newsprint gossip columns had been migrating to the internet and its ever-expanding blogosphere, which had become an ideal format for rapier thrusts at celebrities, often delivered anonymously and with little regard for truth or consequences.
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1 HodorTheDoorHolder 2017-11-13
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1 incineratechicken 2017-11-13
Before the internet even existed, brave dramanauts plumbed the depths of human stupidity.
1 allkindsofnewyou 2017-11-13
Gone too soon.
1 pizzashill 2017-11-13
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1 AnnoysTheGoys 2017-11-13
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