Word: gossipers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...showed a nose for hot celebrities, bringing in books by Kathie Lee Gifford, Hollywood executive Dawn Steel and even (her next project) MTV superstars Beavis and Butt-head. To admirers, Regan is a passionate editor with keen commercial instincts; to detractors, an abrasive publicity hound; to readers of gossip columns, the most entertaining book editor in New York City. Three years ago she spent five hours in jail after an argument with a police officer who, she says, taunted her cab driver (the charges were dropped). Last year she picked a fight with Madonna over the singer's book...
...published almost no poetry: he has, instead, been writing A Different Person, a memoir of his postcollegiate years in postwar Europe. Digressions, meditations and flash-forward passages follow each of the new book's 21 chapters, intended, the poet says, as "reveries suitable for a pillow book, for gossip, for shoptalk...
...second. In the sense in which "gossipy, though there are some wonderful anecdotes about acquaintances who later became as famous as Merrill, or more famous: the young Alison Lurie, the old Alice B. Toklas, and the former sweetheart of Eugenio Montale all get walk-on parts. But "gossip" can mean not only a set of topics but a kind of language, the kind which fixates on names and dates, on who did what with Merrill when, and sometimes why. In this sense "gossip" is the enemy of the aesthetic, and the ally of all those who read memoirs "to find...
...Patrick's Roadhouse, a hot-dog stand turned diner that sits at show- business ground zero, on the Pacific Coast Highway between Malibu and Hollywood, fresh slabs of bacon sputter on the grill while movie moguls gossip about the wife of a top studio executive and a national politician. The interior is pure beachfront eclectic, crammed with mismatched furniture, bullhorns, rubber snakes, paintings of World War II flying aces, antique mirrors, numberless pieces of nautical kitsch. It's not only the campy charm, the soulful coffee or the cheap and un-California-ishly cholesterol-rich menu that keeps this dive...
...does Zoglin, it turns out. When he finally decided to get married last summer, at 43, to Glamour entertainment editor Charla Krupp, his closest co- workers didn't find out about the engagement until it was disclosed, show- business style, in a gossip column. Next time you have news like that, Richard, give us a call before it leaks to the tabloids. That goes for you too, Dave...