Word: gossiped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Perry Ellis, Angel Estrada and Willi Smith. Paris-based American designer Patrick Kelly died of a brain tumor in January, but some in the fashion world believe his death was AIDS-related. The death of Italy's Giorgio Sant' Angelo from lung cancer has also been the subject of gossip. Says Paris-based fashion critic Carol Mongo: "So many name designers are dying that one wonders what direction the industry will take over the next ten to 15 years...
Every illness or absence fuels rumors in the industry. When Yves Saint Laurent was hospitalized for exhaustion last month and failed for the first time to appear at his Paris ready-to-wear show, there was some gossip of AIDS. But Saint Laurent has long suffered from a delicate constitution and is prone to overwork. Rumors that Calvin Klein had AIDS surfaced about seven years ago. Klein, who is married for a second time, strongly denied the rumors...
Cozying up with sources is par for the gossip course, and Smith has her own techniques. "My effort is to turn everybody I know into a legman for me," she says. Reporters at newspapers, magazines and the three networks, she claims, often leak snippets to her. Agents of all kinds drop nuggets, as do friends, parties and openings. Public relations people are "mostly so inept that you should just forget it totally." Though, in truth, Liz has been known to run their press releases verbatim, as well as to promote shamelessly her favorite restaurants, charities and plays...
...times Liz's 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...
PRESS: Hold on to your hat, Hedda -- gossip is back and bigger than ever...