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RIP, Liz Smith

“Her brand of gossip is the old-fashioned kind, not the embarrassing or repulsive stuff dug up by so many of her journalistic colleagues. When she escorts us into the private lives of popular culture’s gods and monsters, it’s with a spirit of wonder, not meanness.” 

—Jane and Michael Stern, reviewers, in Robert D. McFadden, “Liz Smith, Longtime Queen of Tabloid Gossip Columns, Dies at 94,” The New York Times, Nov. 12, 2017.

• Editorial Comment: “Old-fashioned gossip.” You know, nothing sleazy.

• Liz Smith interview, NYTimes  

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