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Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis): "A press agent eats a columnist's dirt and is expected to call it manna.... A columnist can't do without us - except our good and great friend J.J. forgets to mention that. You see, we furnish him with items." J.J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster): "Yes, with your clients' names attached. That's the only reason the poor slobs pay you: to see their names in my column all over the world.... [Press agents also] dig up scandal about prominent people and shovel it thin among columnists who give them space." - dialogue from the film "Sweet Smell...
...stars and broke them, announced when a celeb got married ("Lohengrinned") or separated ("splitsville" or "phffft"). He gave advice to F.D.R. and took favors from J. Edgar Hoover. At times Winchell was the news, as when Murder Inc. boss Louis Lepke surrendered to him and Hoover; at times the columnist withheld it, when someone like Clare Boothe Luce asked nicely. He created the new world of gossip, and ruled it from such perches of power as Table 50, the Royal Box, in the Cub Room at the Stork Club. Were Winchell and the other columnists there because the celebrities were...
...Welch, he's not talking. An assistant at his Shelton, Conn., office called the situation a personal matter, and his many fans probably agree. The state of his marriage is unknown. Stanley Bing, a columnist for FORTUNE and author of the new book Throwing the Elephant: Zen and the Art of Managing Up, observes of Welch's behavior that top executives' "sense of self is wrapped up so tightly with status that when their circumstances change, they can mutate into something unrecognizable to their closest friends--or interviewers." Or perhaps the key is that, as the authors of the article...
...Sharpton, primed for his presidential candidacy, is adding "author" to his resume. PW reports that in October, Kensington will publish "Al on America," to be co-written with NY Daily News columnist Karen Hunter...
Both Tauscher and moderator David Nyham ’62, a former columnist and associate editor of The Boston Globe, blamed the media for its lack of responsibility in political coverage, which they said has dwindled and become more scandal-driven in recent years...