Word: gossipeer
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...lived out all the vagaries of celebrity, knew their value as well as their curse and could manage the trade-off, although he insisted on certain terms and boundaries. He dismissed purveyors of some of the seamier press gossip about him as "pimps and whores. Because they can't write their own name to earn a living properly. They got to lean on somebody else." But Sinatra in those years was natural tabloid fodder, doing the clubs with Ava Gardner (wife No. 2) and Juliet Prowse, and courting Mia Farrow, who became, fleetingly, wife No. 3. And scandal, spurious...
...seaweed wrap and full-ego massage. "She's not feeling good about herself, and she's depressed," explained her lawyer William Ginsburg, who had told reporters "her libido" was suffering. "She's been imprisoned like a dog for four months, and she's angry at all the gossip writers who say trashy things about her. The press and gossip columnists are all snakes, always making things up. So yes, I pamper her when I can. It was a way of saying, 'Honey, you're beautiful and sweet, and we want the world to know...
Studios plan their summer slates a year in advance: one humongous action film leavened with some kid-targeted comedies and an adult thriller or two. Then, of course, everything goes wrong. "The most interesting thing this summer," says Harry Knowles Jr., the dweebmaster of the movie-gossip website Ain't It Cool News, "is that we don't have Warner's Superman film or Disney's Mighty Joe Young or Universal's Hulk coming out, as they were originally slated to. We've had three big dropouts...
Besides the inherent embarrassment of providing entertainment for bored fellow students following the action play-by-play from the sidelines, this kind of behavior provides just too much gossip for the rumor mill that is Annenberg. Even though Ec 10 has been ranked as one of the best places to meet people on campus, this might be a little excessive...
...Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott in 1955 to his murder 13 years later, he faced hundreds of death threats. His home in Montgomery was bombed, with his wife and young children inside. He was hounded by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI, which bugged his telephone and hotel rooms, circulated salacious gossip about him and even tried to force him into committing suicide after he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. As King told the story, the defining moment of his life came during the early days of the bus boycott. A threatening telephone call at midnight alarmed him: "Nigger...