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From Bess Myerson's messy romance to Malcolm Forbes' birthday party, from Roseanne Barr's backstage tempests to William Hurt's palimony trial, the private doings of public figures preoccupy the supposedly serious mainstream press. Decades after Walter Winchell, Louella Parsons, Hedda Hopper and their ilk went the way of the dodo, their patented elixir of career hype, marital comings and goings, feuds, fortunes and celebrity pratfalls has become the journalistic cocktail of choice. In the great public circus of American life, gossip is back in the center ring...
...Elizabeth Taylor and Jackie Onassis and Barbra Streisand are always news; so are Frank Sinatra and Teddy Kennedy and Sylvester Stallone. Some celebrities, like Sean Penn or Robin Givens, may prove ephemeral, but are omnipresent for their moment. Some celebrities become famous for doing something. Others, like Malcolm Forbes -- who died suddenly of a heart attack last week -- are famous for how lavishly they've spent in the company of celebrity friends...
...Greenberg. That makes them all the more formidable at a favorite pastime of theirs: bridge. After the stock market closes, they bring their talents to high-powered card games at New York City's exclusive Regency Club. Their frequent opponents include CBS chairman Laurence Tisch and centillionaire publisher Malcolm Forbes...
Attalah Shabazz, the oldest of Malcolm X's six children, delivered her remarks before a crowd of 350 as part of Black History Month. She began her presentation by noting that February 21 was the 25th anniversary of her father's assassination...
Shabazz then asked members of the audience to give their impressions of Malcolm X. In response to the favorable characterizations of her father from several members of the crowd, she said that "the adjectives used to describe my father were much more vicious...