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...weeks have worked themselves into a greater frenzy than usual over Castro's fate. Miami's Spanish radio stations dedicate hours of airtime to speculation that Castro's regime will collapse. Some emigres are even preparing to sell their property and return to their homeland. To Miami Herald columnist Sergio Lopez-Miro, such actions constitute "wishful thinking cum madness." Or call it hope -- the same hope that people like the Fidelista in Santiago have been searching for in the dark. Uva Clavijo, a Miami-based fiction writer who came...
...every so often you glance at a gossip column, scanning its staccato list of items and bold- faced names to see if there is anything of interest . . . Yet, is American society becoming too obsessed with gossip, too absorbed with the private lives of public people? . . . For Naushad Mehta, interviewing columnist Liz Smith and her brethren for this week's cover stories was an amusing change of pace . . . Though Mehta kept asking about the troublesome issues raised by our national infatuation with the trivial, her subjects kept changing the topic to . . . you guessed it. Says Mehta: "They usually prefaced their gossip...
Digging for the dirt is a round-the-clock job. "I'm desperately overstimulated, overentertained and overpaid," says Smith. With two assistants in her Manhattan apartment, Smith spends the day on the phone, sifting through stacks of mail, and keeping the party dates straight. Soon the columnist may become Liz Smith the series. Already a regular on TV station / WNBC in New York, she has made pilots for a celebrity-interview show that may air on the Fox network next fall...
...favorites are named in her column: the Today show's Deborah Norville shares top honors with Barbara Walters, both having garnered a mention every six days on average. (Frank Sinatra and Sylvester Stallone crop up every eight days; Madonna gets a boost every twelve.) Boston Herald gossip columnist Norma Nathan thinks Smith is a celebrity groupie who protects her pals: "She's so In, she's Out. She's become part of the story...
While she tracks the Trumps, Liz continues to trail other celebs. A recent column crowed that "terrific, sexy" actor Alec Baldwin (The Hunt for Red October) was "busy, busy" and that Ava Gardner's grave had been stripped of flowers by fans. Observed the columnist without a smidgen of irony: "The price celebrities pay for their success is a lack of privacy." Bite your tongue...