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Mimi's ball is a slam dunk affair, with two bands, countless bars, and tables groaning under mountains of pâté, strawberries and cheese. All this is matched by ample dollops of gossip and boredom. Was this bigger than last week's ball? What about the decorations? Where did that dress come from? What do you think this cost? And where in God's name did Mimi get those rubies? "I think they went through the telephone directory," complains one older gentleman, unhappy at the size of the ball. "I could invite anyone I wanted...
...trudges on, to be sure, but it is most noticeable nowadays among the rich and most amusing to notice in Washington, which displays in concentration the social mode that reflects the country's ascendant mood. Says Diana McClellan, who closely monitors the status chase as the Washington Post gossip columnist: "There's more of a polarization now between the really rich and everybody else. These people are plastered with rubies and things to the point where you don't think you've got a chance. How can you hope to top $700,000 worth of Bulgari...
...single mechanical toy as a major character. Reed's life said this: Not only can you hop the express train of history, you can help steer it into a new age. With Reds Beatty says: I'm not just a movie star, a minimogul, a hot gossip item; I've got a great film in me and here...
Where would gossip be without Elizabeth Taylor? Barely breathing, obviously. Probably no one in the past 30 years has provided better copy or set more tongues wagging. Now, by a curious coincidence, three books have just been published that should give her a permanent place in the Gossip Hall of Fame. The first, Kitty Kelley's Elizabeth Taylor is about the lady herself. The second, Eddie: My Life, My Loves is the autobiography of her fourth husband, Eddie Fisher. The third, Paul Ferris' Richard Burton, is a biography of her fifth and sixth husband. But all are really...
...crook. And Megan (Sally Field) is not so crazily ambitious that she would, just to take a random example, fabricate a story about a child heroin addict in hopes of tugging at a Pulitzer jury's heartstrings. Certainly she would not stoop to selling papers by retailing gossip about an incumbent President's bugging a President-elect's bedroom just before Inauguration. Indeed, throughout the film, as she reports each carefully leaked piece of information about Michael, thereby helping the feds to "squeeze" him into helping their cause, she behaves with perfect moral propriety. The trouble...