Word: gossipeer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Street," a once-a-week Broadway column, for the New York Daily News in 1951, Drama Critic Robert M. (for McPhierson) Sylvester saw little future for Broadway columnists. The migration to the suburbs, he reasoned, was not only killing off nightclubs but the demand for warmed-over café gossip as well. Columnist Sylvester was too pessimistic. When busy Telecaster Ed Sullivan cut his columns to two-a-week last May, the News upped "Dream Street" to five-a-week. By last week, it was syndicated in 30 papers...
...females). Its language sounds like Mickey Spillane trying to sound like Hemingway ("I belched. Loud and clear"). Nevertheless, the book has a minor and terrible fascination for what it tells about the TV business-in terms as tasteful but probably as authentic as men's-room gossip...
Guide to Stardom. To program listings (printed in large type, thus easily read by TV's dim light), TV Guide adds a light diet of gossip ("Sheree North was tossed off a coast-to-coast interview program when she arrived sans makeup when the show was one-third over.") and short features on TV performers. But it is neither a fan magazine nor a catchall for pressagents' puffs. Networks often do not like what TV Guide says about their shows, but they respect...
...quickest flops in Broadway history, he applied to the major networks for a job in radio. They turned him down on the grounds that his voice was "too cold to appeal to women listeners." Then the full-dress suit came in handy. It got him a spot broadcasting gossip from nightclubs for an independent station...
...beard," in Hollywood parlance, is a man employed by a male star to accompany him when he appears in public with a woman not his wife. Sometimes female stars use them too. The custom is usually successful in averting trouble with the wife or husband, the gossip columnists and the public. "If Hollywood ever took off its beard," a comedian once remarked, "the public would not recognize it." A "hunker" is somebody kept on the payroll to know baseball scores, send out for coffee, and strike matches...