From Rush & Molloy comes word that the Times' Boldface Names columnist Joyce Wadler will be throwing in her quirky towel. Wadler — who was the closest thing the Times had to a gossip columnist — will take her patented space-cadet screenplays and Columbia J-School lessons to the Home section, where perhaps she might be better understood. She'll be replaced by Campbell Robertson, who, we assume, is twice as sane but half as endearing.

On a personal note, Joyce once wrote us to ask that we stop calling her our "aunt" or any variation thereof. Now that she's leaving our world of diabolical voyeurism, we can finally (and sadly) grant the ol' gal her wish.

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