Word: gossipeer
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...result, since Sanchez abandoned his chores for the slightly less honorable vocation of gossip-monger, is Up and Down with the Rolling Stones, expensive at $17.95 and no bargain at any price. Excerpts have appeared in Playboy and the New York Post, which should tell you something. A good biographer should have the ability to disappear, to close the observer/observed rift; Sanchez's egotism transforms biography into autobiography. This is not "The Inside Story" but "The Sanchez Story." Unfortunately, the life of a drug connection is not much more interesting than the story of a guy getting drinks...
...money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books." He argued repeatedly that a writer's private correspondence should stay that way and urged friends to destroy his letters to them. At the same time, employing his poetic license, he reveled in scandal, luxuriated in gossip. "Who," he asked BBC listeners during the 1930s, "would rather learn the facts of Augustus' imperial policy than discover that he had spots on his stomach...
...word article, by New Yorker Staff Writer Suzannah Lessard, does not attempt to document any amatory adventures. But it asserts that the gossip is true and suggests that Kennedy's philandering is a "latent issue" that will surface as the electorate struggles to get the Senator's character in sharper focus, and offers her own instant analysis: his behavior represents "a severe case of arrested development, a kind of narcissistic intemperance...
Politics, moreover, has fashioned what has begun to seem like a permanent alliance with show business itself. In season, the same names that decorate the gossip columns and Variety begin popping up in political chronicles. Last week a squiblet on Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin turned out to be a note about a Boston fund raiser for Ronald Reagan. Singer Glen Campbell, it seems, is slated to give a benefit concert for John Connally. From the White House, via a guest list for a recent campaign dinner, comes word that supporters of the Carter-Mondale team include Johnny Cash, Willie...
...politics-show biz alliance. Impressive sums, $75,000 here, $100,000 there, were added to campaign treasuries in 1976 out of the proceeds of concerts by celebrated musical performers. Singer Linda Ronstadt was producing bucks for Governor Jerry Brown long before the two of them had become a hot gossip-column item. The Allman Brothers and Johnny Cash similarly helped out Jimmy Carter. This fund-raising mode was facilitated by a financing law that allowed concert receipts to be considered as donations not of the performers but of ticket-buying members of the audience. There will be more political concerts...