Word: gossiped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last year when things looked glum, Andy Warhol's gossip sheet Interview defined a new figure in society: the millionette. Now these "rich young brats" have succeeded café society, the jet set and the beautiful people as social pacesetters. To emulate them, however, requires a lot of loot. Take the personification of the ideal, Nicky Lane, 23, a dégagée Englishwoman with fire-engine red hair, matte-white face and enormous carnelian eyes. "She looks like an apricot," says her whimsical husband Kenneth Jay Lane, the costume-jewelry designer. Nicky is what Cole Porter liked...
Young Judy, by David Dahl and Barry Kehoe (Mason/Charter; $9.95), explores Grand Rapids, Minn., and Lancaster, Calif., for fragments of the true Judy. The authors emerge with gossip about Frances Gumm, whose vaudeville father was a homosexual and whose mother sought vicarious recognition in her child star. For Dahl and Kehoe The Wizard of Oz is cinéma à clef; the Dorothy who sang Over the Rainbow was the actress herself. "Frances never stopped trying to get home," they burble in a style that Rona Barrett might envy. Young Judy covers only the childhood of Garland...
...only for a group of wistful paraplegics. Judy's reply: "If they can wheel them in, they can wheel them out." Such anecdotes diminish both biographer and biographee and make the reader wonder why this sorrowful woman was worth 700 pages of heavy industry. Is the neon gossip meant to illuminate the warts, Judy and all? Or is it the mandatory downer for some future wide-screen version of Garland starring, say, Liza Minnelli...
...Gossip about the honorary degree holders--their names are kept strictly secret until they take the stage at Commencement--abounds at Harvard this time of year, and this year Cox is a top name on busy tongues...
...disillusioned survivor of the first World War's unchivalrous slaughter, Mosley never lost his dash. His political enemies called him the Playboy of the West End World. His first wife, Cynthia Curzon, daughter of a marquess and granddaughter of a Chicago multimillionaire, made racy copy. Wrote one gossip columnist: Lady Cynthia attended a theater opening "well on the gold standard in a glittering sequined coat." Her sister Alexandra was nicknamed Ba-Ba-Blackshirt...