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Liz Smith Thinks Col Allan Is 'Absolute Total Shit!'
On the safe-for-women news site WowoWow today, octogenarian Post gossip queen Liz Smith weighs in with her opinion of bosses: "My boss is an absolute total shit!" Goodness, Liz! "As I have a lot of bosses in this world just as newspaper, magazine-writing, TV-appearing, Internet-contributing souls all have, I will not identify just which particular boss this is," she adds. But of course, we know exactly who she's talking about. More »
conflicts of interest
Post Women Very Powerful, Says Post
As if its listicle of the "50 Most Powerful Women In NYC" were not journalistically dubious enough, the Post also had to use the list for shameless self promotion, putting two of its own columnists on the list. Granted, some of the non-Post choices were also highly questionable, like the editor-in-chief of Cookie magazine, socialite Ivanka Trump and former hooker Ashley Dupre. But how can you even begin to take the selection of, say, Post columnist Cindy Adams seriously when the first qualification listed for her is "she's got a sandwich named after her?" The Post's self-serving choices are after the jump. More »
clubs
Elderly Tastemakers Merrily Booze It Up
Take a journey, if you will, into the secret inner chambers of New York's cultural elites. It's an exclusive club where well-dressed "raconteurs and bon vivants" chatter urbanely while tuxedoed waiters scurry about. Of course, their meetings are at noon on Tuesdays, their members are mostly over the hill, and they didn't admit women until 1991. Welcome to the Dutch Treat Club, the Algonquin Roundtable for 21st-century Manhattan olds who still like to drink and ogle girls! More »
Newfangled
Here's video of an old lady named Liz Smith waving a camera around at Michael's. Watch as an unseen man whispers the name of Marie Claire's editor to her, which she then shouts. Watch Tina Fey look bored and miserable. Watch, and see what awaits you in your golden years. [WOWOWOWOWOWOW]
Here's video of an old lady named Liz Smith waving a camera around at Michael's. Watch as an unseen man whispers the name of Marie Claire's editor to her, which she then shouts. Watch Tina Fey look bored and miserable. Watch, and see what awaits you in your golden years. [WOWOWOWOWOWOW]
gross
Barbara Walters Senatorial Sex Scandal!!
When selecting a mate, Barbara Walters did not limit herself to utterly reprehensible closet cases. She also liked Senators! Walters revealed on Oprah today that she carried on a torrid affair with Edward Brooke, the first black man elected to the Senate after Reconstruction (no one ever remembers Hiram Rhodes Revels!), "for several years in the 1970's." It was never revealed publicly because Brooke was in the process of divorce and a re-election campaign (he lost the latter). Brooke is still alive. Fun fact: he had breast cancer! Well, maybe that's not very fun. Still. We certainly are learning a lot about the love lives of our elder ladies of journalism, aren't we? It was just last month that Liz Smith revealed that she's slept with 20 people (divided more or less evenly among ladies and gentlemen) in her 2,000 years on Earth. She didn't reveal if any of them were Senators, though. [AP]
wowowow
Liz Smith Is Not Going To London For This Tacky Memorial
Octogenarian gossip queen Liz Smith succinctly titled her recent blog post "I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: Who Still Cares? Millions Around the World Did. Some Still Do." What is she talking about? It has something to do with Princess Di. The memorial pictured is located in Harrods department store in London, commemorating the death of Princess Di and Dodi Fayed. Liz shares Dominick Dunne's opinion that their whole romance was just a big fraud! So why go all the way to London to see it, with the exchange rate being so bad? But then at the end she says that Harrods' Egyptian-themed escalator is worth an overseas visit. Liz Smith, I don't know what your point is, but you are a beautiful and mysterious gem, and someone really needs to buy you this t-shirt. [WowoWow]. Click through for bigger pics of both of Harrods' tacky memorials. More »
awkward encounters
Painful Conversation Starters For Talking To Celebrities
Liz Smith is awfully excited about her recent close encounter of the Clooney kind. She ran into The Salt-and-Peppered One at a recent party for Leatherheads at 21, and offers advice for conversing with the stars on her WowOwoW "women over 40" website. More »
oh liz
Liz Smith Has Boob Opinions
Semi-sane octogenarian gossip Liz Smith is really feeling her oat bran now that she's cranking out columns for the aged women's site WowOWow.com. In her latest effort, she tackles the issue of our time: the rumors of Nicole Kidman's breast augmentation. And she speaks without fear or favor: More »
oh liz
After 400 Years, Liz Smith Suddenly Disenchanted With Gossip
Liz Smith, the post-post-menopausal gossip columnist, filed a column for her website WowOWow.com, and boy is it insane. There's the part where the Postie explains how gossip would suck if it was about tyrannical dictators who ruled our lives like Kim Jong Il, or where she says gossip would change in a nuclear apocalypse, or how "gossip culture" would be different if an asteroid hit the earth, or if everyone ran out of electricity. But the two craziest parts are definitely the racially-caricatured, pseudo-Confucian caption under Smith's photo, and also the part where Smith decides the gossip biz is shit: More »
clips
Tech Guru Liz Smith Tries To Plays Us Like An Atari
Just this week, Liz Smith, the bisexual, outspoken Post columnist admitted to being "completely daunted" by the internet. Mocking people who don't understand Google is so much fun. But in a promotional video for Wowowow, the website for "women on the web," she describes herself as the "tech guru" among the old ladies. In the valley of the infertile, the one working ovary is queen. I would commend say Liz Smith for opening herself up to ridicule to get attention for the site, but the joke's on her. The only post-menopausal women who read this site are our moms.
blind item roundup
What TV Show Has Two Gays?
Liz Smith writes in the Post today that a TV person she recently spoke to complained that "There's nothing going on in celebrity land. There's no news, no gossip, no scandal. The Oscars showed how dull things are. People are only interested in politics." Yes. There's been a mighty sea change and finally Americans are taking an active interest in government and nothing else. Ninth grade civics teachers everywhere are rejoicing. After all, there's only one blind item today (after the jump.) At least it's about gayyyy people. More »
the internets
Five old media blondes are launching a website for women over 40 and enlisting their closest celebrity friends to contribute! The site is called WowOWow.com, which is supposed to refer to "Women On The Web," and should launch Saturday. It sounds a lot like that other celebrity website, the Huffington Post, except more like The View and less tech savvy — a good deal of the content is submitted via telephone calls, faxes and probably dictaphone cylinders that are then transcribed into digital bits by pitiable lackeys who "speak cyber," as one editor put it. The founders, who contributed $200,000 each, are Post columnist Liz Smith, 85; former advertising execute Mary Wells, 79; 60 Minutes reporter Leslie Stahl, 67; former Simon & Schuster President Joni Evans, 65; and Wall Street Journal Columnist Peggy Noonan, 57. They have wisely recruited contributors like Lily Tomlin, Candice Bergen and token-non-white-lady Whoopie Goldberg. But how can this thing take of with an address like "WowOWow.com?" After the jump, a number of more descriptive and accurate domain names, all still available at the time of posting:
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Celebrity Doyennes Launch Your Mom's New Favorite Site
Five old media blondes are launching a website for women over 40 and enlisting their closest celebrity friends to contribute! The site is called WowOWow.com, which is supposed to refer to "Women On The Web," and should launch Saturday. It sounds a lot like that other celebrity website, the Huffington Post, except more like The View and less tech savvy — a good deal of the content is submitted via telephone calls, faxes and probably dictaphone cylinders that are then transcribed into digital bits by pitiable lackeys who "speak cyber," as one editor put it. The founders, who contributed $200,000 each, are Post columnist Liz Smith, 85; former advertising execute Mary Wells, 79; 60 Minutes reporter Leslie Stahl, 67; former Simon & Schuster President Joni Evans, 65; and Wall Street Journal Columnist Peggy Noonan, 57. They have wisely recruited contributors like Lily Tomlin, Candice Bergen and token-non-white-lady Whoopie Goldberg. But how can this thing take of with an address like "WowOWow.com?" After the jump, a number of more descriptive and accurate domain names, all still available at the time of posting:
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oh liz
Liz Smith Sleeps Naked, OK?
85-year-old Post gossip Liz Smith tells us that Heath Ledger slept naked, helpfully adding, "I happen to sleep in the nude, and many others do as well." Then she beats you to the "ew" punch by chastising "the infantile titillation and fear of the flesh." [NYP]
newspapers
The Post's Gossip Gerontocracy
"During [the American Society of Magazine Editors Awards], I sat between two of my all-time favorite people - one was Tina Brown's husband, Harry Evans; the other was the young writer Christopher Buckley," writes 85-year-old NY Post gossip columnist Liz Smith. "Young" Christopher Buckley, author of Thank You For Smoking, is a fresh-faced 55 years old. (The Post's other gossip columnist, Cindy Adams, is just 82). [NYP]
lunch imbroglios!
Diner Owner, Tabloid Gossip Trash Michael Wolff
Gossip gal Liz Smith chats with Michael's owner Michael McCarty over at Radar. (What goes into a $35 burger? Uh, "Really good meat," allegedly. More accurately: "The price of real estate in Midtown Manhattan?") And then Michael gets to finally knife Vanity Fair writer Michael Wolff over his boycott of Michael's. More »
retirement is for suckers
Tina Brown's Sixth Act: HBO
I was hoping that former synergy-enthusiast Tina Brown's next job would be something really odd. Such as finding a way to monetize alligator-wrestling or inventing the next internet. (WHEN WILL we get the next internet? This one is so over!) But her "first-look deal to bring projects and story ideas to HBO" works too! We expect some shows like "The Tudors" meets "Hannah and her Sisters" set in Lagos. Very cool. Very, you know, chattery. Very high coastal appeal! The smart set! Quality eyeballs over quantity! Unexpected juxtapositions! "K Street" do-over!
