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 Texas Journalist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Alex Jones (journalist) - Alexander Emerick Jones (born 1974 in Austin, Texas,) is a controversial American documentary film producer, journalist and radio and television host who claims that the governments of today are in collaboration to create a New World Order.
Mary Walsh (journalist) - Mary Walsh is a producer at CBS News.
Liz Smith (journalist) - Liz Smith (born February 2, 1923 in Fort Worth, Texas) is a popular gossip columnist.
www2.sts-docs.com /Texas/Journalist.html   (1074 words)

  
 Natural Blonde: A Memoir by Liz Smith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Liz Smith, the "Grande Dame of Dish", has been covering the comings and goings of the rich and infamous for more than four decades from her privileged front-row perch on the front lines of celebrity journalism.
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www.tonsofspecials.com /sales.php?729863   (548 words)

  
 Quest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Smith’s memoir, Natural Blonde (Hyperion, 2000), paints a vivid picture of a woman who “worked her ass off” to live out her dreams, and had to pinch herself as they came true.
Smith was hesitant at first; she did the social rounds of clubs like El Morocco and ‘21’ in borrowed finery, thinking gossip a dying art form and questioning her relevance.
Gossip for Liz Smith is an expression of democracy, a sieve for wider issues, and, above all, an expression of her own journalistic autonomy.
www.questmag.com /feature_story.php?c=1000014   (953 words)

  
 KLRU: Texas Monthly Talks > Liz Smith > Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Liz Smith's column in the New York Post
Liz Smith, fondly referred to as the “Grande Dame of Dish,” is possibly the most famous gossip columnist to date and the highest paid print journalist in the world.
Smith graduated from the University of Texas at Austin.
www.klru.org /texasmonthlytalks/archives/smith/bio.asp   (153 words)

  
 NATURAL BLONDE on Audio--as read by Author Liz Smith
Liz Smith wasn't always famous, and in Natural Blonde she reveals how a young woman from rural Texas came to New York hell-bent on making something of her life.
Liz Smith was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and began her media career in the 1950s as a pioneering news producer with Mike Wallace at CBS Radio in New York City.
Known as the highest-paid female print journalist in the world, Liz's daily column is now syndicated nationally to millions of eager readers in over 70 newspapers.
www.randomhouse.com /audio/lizsmith/index.html   (315 words)

  
 'Natural Blonde' by Liz Smith
Liz Smith, possibly the highest-paid print journalist in the world, has been a Manhattan (and Hamptons) fixture for decades.
Smith, now 77, has stayed star-struck since she was a Texas college girl.
Liz, working in a typing pool in a town just outside Los Alamos, N.M., was tossed out of bed by the first A-bomb.
www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/20001109review623.asp   (210 words)

  
 CNN Transcript - Larry King Live Weekend: Liz Smith Tells All; Jamie Rubin Goes Inside the NATO Air War; John Ritter ...
SMITH: It is. It's been a very unusual experience for me to be so, you know, have the focus on me. I always think of myself as a kid in the street with a pencil and piece of paper, watching other people.
SMITH: No. I mean, terribly, terribly misunderstood, maligned, misbelieved because, you know, she did lie a lot, Larry, because she was fearful for her life.
SMITH: I helped him to the extent -- I helped him to keep a woman from flmailing him, because I happen to have a file on this woman for some unknown reason, and I sent it to him and he showed it to her and she dropped her flmail.
transcripts.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0010/07/lklw.00.html   (6670 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Natural Blonde: Books: Liz Smith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
That's right, and Smith starts right off with the sort of wink-wink revelationDjuicy enough to raise eyebrows but not so wet as to shockDthat's made her reputation (and her fortune as the world's highest-paid print journalist): the golden locks on this gossip gal were once anything but.
Smith remembers her family with fondnessDher father, a cotton broker and inveterate gambler; her mother, a Southern Baptist and a genteel lady; and her two brothers, whom she adored.
All in all, Liz Smith's book is a pretty good rendering of the long career of a highly likable character who, as another reviewer put it, never overshadowed the celebrities she was covering.
www.amazon.com /Natural-Blonde-Liz-Smith/dp/0786863250   (2284 words)

  
 City Arts & Lectures
For the past five decades, Liz Smith has brought style, good humor, and honesty to her nationally syndicated gossip column.
Titillating but never tasteless, Smith keeps millions of readers up to date with inside stories of stars, from blue bloods to royalty and Hollywood celebrities.
From her Texas roots to her early years in New York City and life as a gossip legend, Smith explains how she learned that "gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.
www.cityarts.net /n.smith.html   (197 words)

  
 Natural Blonde: A Memoir (Random House Large Print) - Liz Smith
In this riveting autobiography, famed gossip columnist Liz Smith chronicles her life and career, beginning with her girlhood in Fort Worth and ending with her media career in New York City, where, in 2000, she ranked as the highest paid female journalist in the world.
From her salad days as a small-time reporter, typist, and proofreader to her triumphs at the Daily News, Newsday, New York Post and her 1995 Emmy for reporting, Liz tells what it's really like to be seen and heard by millions of people every day.
Liz Smith gives a rosy buildup to her love life and then, like the camera in the melodramas she loved so much as a Texas girl, she discreetly pans away.
www.biblio.com /books/91146787.html   (588 words)

  
 Gossip Queen Dishes Dirt On Herself - CBS News
Smith and Hudson became good friends early in his career in the 1950s.
Smith tells Wallace that she had stories about the flmailer and was "furious" enough to use them.
Smith also tells Wallace she had a crush on Hudson, then a hunk starring in screen classics such as Magnificent Obsession and Giant.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2000/09/13/60minutes/main233065.shtml   (550 words)

  
 The Austin Chronicle Books: Texas Book Festival: Photos by John Anderson
When the esteemed names of her colleagues were mentioned, she joked: "I'll never get in a word edgewise!" Carpenter got in plenty of words, however, as did Ellerbee and Morris, who opened the panel and apologized for the absence of Liz Smith.
Smith had taken ill the night before but then made a belated entrance into the chamber just minutes into the discussion amid heavy applause.
Smith got the biggest applause as she recalled an incident on a publicity tour.
www.austinchronicle.com /gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid:79383   (430 words)

  
 The Connection.org : Liz Smith
Liz Smith has been writing about celebrities for almost fifty years, and along the way, she's become one herself.
We can't be stopped." Liz Smith has chronicled the battles between Ivana Trump and The Donald, suffered the insults of Frank Sinatra, predicted the marriage of Jackie and Ari and been propositioned by Norman Mailer.
Occasionally, however, she has stopped and asked herself, "Is this all there is - gossip, show biz, limitless entertainment and trivia?" We're talking with Liz Smith this hour on the Connection.
www.theconnection.org /shows/2000/10/20001011_b_main.asp   (250 words)

  
 HAD Magazine
They Believe that by courageously choosing to be role models for all the women in this life stage that they will start to change the perception and the meaning of women who are menopausal.The event celebrated women over 40 who illustrated the power, beauty, and sex appeal of women of midlife.
Liz Smith Journalist, Syndicated Columnist, and Former Governor of Texas Ann Richards,were the Co-Hosts for the event, and Bette Midler Entertainer and Comedian, performed and sang a few different songs and cracked a few jokes making everybody laugh.
Gloria smith is a School teacher for the past 25 years based here in Queens NY,with a masters degree in Education, she loves to travel allover the world, and writes about different topics,on International Business, Cultural events, and All Kind of Women Issues.
www.hadofnyc.org /magazine/articles/glorias/gloria05.htm   (279 words)

  
 Liz Smith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Syndicated in more than 70 newspapers, she has been reported to be the highest-paid print journalist in the country, but gossip columnist Liz Smith has lived in the same apartment building in New York City for 33 years.
Her latest book, "Dishing," is filled with "great dish and dishes" from as many years.
Smith has been a food lover since her Texas childhood.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/05255/569800.stm   (753 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Natural Blonde: A Memoir: Books: Liz Smith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
But I barely knew who Liz Smith was and found her book fascinating.
Liz doesn't spare herself either -- this book is not uncritical of her own life.
Liz Smith was gossip columnist par excellence but, no, she wasn't a natural blonde.
www.amazon.com /Natural-Blonde-Memoir-Liz-Smith/dp/0375416331   (2118 words)

  
 15 Minutes Magazine - This Week: Liz Smith
HE venerable journalist Liz Smith was thrown a book party at Le Cirque (you can never have too many events at Le Cirque for me!).
Whilst she may not still be a natural, she was the most elegant 77-year-old in the room, wearing a tummy baring sexy top.
All in all over 200 of Liz’s nearest and dearest packed the room to wish their dear friend a very successful launch.
www.15minutesmagazine.com /archives/Issue_19/week_001120-01.htm   (209 words)

  
 The Truth about Truman and his Excessive Lying by Andrea Broadbent
Capote often visited Studio 54 with his friends, where he would be in constant interaction with drugs.
Liz Smith, a journalist, described the scene at Studio 54 in the following: "Lots of drugs and needles.
Smith's statement indicates just how enormous Capote's drug problem actually was.
www.washburn.edu /cas/english/Beyond-A/issue03/broadbent.html   (1609 words)

  
 My Way - Liz Smith
Women who elected to walk cross-town from MOMA to Le Cirque had to immediately rush to the ladies room to repair damage to their paint jobs.
Among the throng: Marie-Jose and Henry Kravis, Liz Cho, Nora Ephron and Nick Pileggi, Stone Phillips, Anna Wintour, Bebe Neuwirth, Lally Weymouth, Mort Zuckerman and Gerald Schoenfeld.
He materializes to budding journalist Scarlett while she is onstage enjoying the vaudeville magic antics of a jittery fellow stage-named Splendino (Woody, natch).
entertainment.myway.com /celebgossip/lizsmith/id/07_28_2006.html   (883 words)

  
 Gawker, Manhattan Media News and Gossip
· Liz Smith says we've unfairly locked her in the supply closet: "don't they know that Babs doesn't have a thing to do with me? I'm on her Z list.
Liz Smith's assistant on her recent Vegas trip: "I took refuge on Petrossian's nearly empty patio to watch hordes of grossly fat and nearly naked Americans wearing shorts trying to get into the caf�.
· NYT journalist Michael Finkel, who was fired last year for fabricating a story, found out while he was contemplating suicide that Christian Longo (who was wanted in Mexico for murdering his family) was using his name as an alias because he liked Finkel's writing.
www.gawker.com /search/liz-smith/bydate?startIndex=90   (1057 words)

  
 Sk - Real Names of Famous Folk- Sn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Keely Smith, Singer; Dorothy Jaqueline Keely (Norfolk, Virginia 9 March 1932).
Liz Smith, Journalist and gossip columnist; Mary Elizabeth Smith (Fort Worth, Texas 2 February 1923).
Smith, Newsagent, bookseller, politician; William Henry Smith, Jr.(London 1825-1891).
www.famousfolk.com /real/names-s/sk.shtml   (663 words)

  
 Salon.com People | Gossip's intrepid balloonists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
"Liz Smith wouldn't recognize good writing if it was dressed like Erin Brockovich!" snips Widdicombe, 30.
Liz Smith and Cindy Adams have gossip columns in the New York Post.
Smith may be the country's highest-paid print journalist.
dir.salon.com /story/people/feature/2001/09/05/chic_happens   (934 words)

  
 FEBRUARY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Model CHRISTIE BRINKLEY is 50, actress FARRAH FAWCETT is 56, journalist LIZ SMITH is 80, and comedian TOM SMOTHERS is 66.
Television journalist TOM BROKAW is 63, singer NATALIE COLE is 53, singer FABIAN is 60, actor MIKE FARRELL is 64, and actress ZSA ZSA GABOR is 84.
Actress MIA FARROW is 58, singer and songwriter CAROLE KING is 61, journalist ROGER MUDD is 75, actor JOE PESCI is 60 and country and western singer TRAVIS TRITT is 40.
www.musicofyourlife.com /musical_notes/Feb03MusicalNotes.htm   (5329 words)

  
 My Way - Liz Smith
The book tells the tale of a hardcore, hard-drinking, hard-drugging celebrity journalist who is hired to document her shallow sobriety-challenged daily life, just as she is trying to clean up her act.
When the spouses, parents and friends of soldiers who fell during the Second World War said, "They died protecting our country and the world," there was no doubting the reality behind that sentiment.
(E-mail Liz Smith at MES3838@aol.com, or write to her c/o Tribune Media Services, 2225 Kenmore Ave., Suite 114, Buffalo, NY 14207.)
entertainment.myway.com /celebgossip/lizsmith/id/12_28_2006_1.html   (832 words)

  
 Liz Smith quotes, Famous quotations from Liz Smith, Populay Sayings at Entwagon.com
Liz Smith quotes, Famous quotations from Liz Smith, Populay Sayings at Entwagon.com
Popular quotations from Liz Smith, Top Liz Smith quotes, Famous Authors,
Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.
www.entwagon.com /cgi-bin/quotes/author.pl?auth=Liz_Smith   (59 words)

  
 Corpus Christi Caller Times Caller.com - Caller-Times copy editor writes book on UT paper
Copp will talk about her book during a panel discussion today as part of The Daily Texan Centennial Celebration, a series of events at the university commemorating the newspaper's 100th birthday.
The weekend event will feature Daily Texan alumni including TV anchorman Walter Cronkite, gossip columnist Liz Smith, journalist Bill Moyers and others.
The book tells behind-the-scenes joys and agonies student journalists experienced while covering everything from Prohibition to Vietnam War protests and from campus panty raids to streaking.
www.caller2.com /1999/october/01/today/local_ne/820.html   (409 words)

  
 Barbra Streisand - Truth Alert
Following is a letter that was sent from Martin Erlichman, Ms.
Streisand's career-long manager, to Liz Smith on October 4, 2000
I would never challenge any journalist's review of an artists work.
www.sonymusic.com /artists/BarbraStreisand/news_ta15.html   (364 words)

  
 Helen Gurley Brown Papers, 1938-2001 : Biographical/Historical Note
Author and magazine editor Helen Gurley Brown was born in Green Forest, Arkansas on 18 February 1922 to Ira and Cleo (Sisco) Gurley, both schoolteachers.
She has been declared a New York City landmark, being a familiar presence on New York City busses heading from her Central Park West apartment to the Cosmopolitan office.
Her admirers and friends have included gossip columnist Liz Smith, television journalist Barbara Walters, mogul Malcolm Forbes, and New York Mayor Ed Koch.
asteria.fivecolleges.edu /findaids/sophiasmith/mnsss142_bioghist.html   (1286 words)

  
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Her presence in Annie Get Your Gun has revitalized that show and been a boon to the box office.
The other day, Gwen Davis, the talented author, journalist and expert on international spas, went to see Annie Get Your Gun.
She was impressed, to say the least, and we found this rave from Gwen on our e-mail: "The late great drummer and wit, Buddy Rich, was asked on his deathbed if he had any last requests.
www.planetout.com /popcornq/movienews/lizsmith/20010221.html   (776 words)

  
 iWon - Liz Smith
PEOPLE ARE still talking about the rambunctious journalist Taki Theodoracopulos and his 70th birthday party at Annabel's.
Taki announced he could not have his usual fun and drink "because I am sitting next to the queen of Greece!" The playboy bon vivant and editor of American Conservative magazine, lured a huge crowd from New York and around the world.
Dominick looks great in his Turnbull & Asser shirt and tie and he is totally recovered from a recent health scare.
entertainment.iwon.com /celebgossip/lizsmith/id/10_01_2006_1.html   (799 words)

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