George Rush and Joanna Molloy published their final gossip column in the New York Daily News yesterday following a 15-year run. Ben Widdicombe, a Rush & Molloy protégé and former Daily News gossip columnist himself, looks back.
Lawyer Casey Greenfield's media career used to revolve around her relationship with her CBS correspondent father. Then she had CNN correspondent Jeff Toobin's out-of-wedlock child, fought him in court, and reinvented herself. New area of expertise: Being a spurned lover.
In the Things We Want To Unlearn department, we have now heard what the Daily News couldn't print in today's Rush & Molloy item about CNN anchor Jeffrey Toobin's sexual advances towards a "well-known media figure."
File in the "epic gossip items department." Because, you know what, Boris and Natasha-esque New York Daily News gossips Rush & Molloy? I really don't care much for a gossip item about CNN talking head Jeffrey Toobin, but...
So! Gossip's equivalent of Boris and Natasha—Rush & Molloy—came correct today with some LOLCAT-fighting between Elizabeth Edwards and Rielle Hunter. Contained herein: internet commenting, birthday spoiling cancer, John Kerry as "Richie Rich," etc. Let's take a look.
Wow: Roger Friedman's accusing prominent Church of Scientology members Tom Cruise and Kelly Preston of conspiring against him, and he's citing this as the reason he was fired from his job as a showbiz columnist in a lawsuit against Fox.
The New York Daily News has trailed the Post's Page Six in the New York gossip wars for a long time. Now the paper is blowing up its gossip columns and starting over. Two major changes went down today. First, husband and wife gossip team Rush & Molloy announced this morning that they'll be moving from a daily column…
"Hollywood director Robert Greenwald" and the Daily News's Rush & Molloy made Bill O'Reilly very sad when they send some homeless vets over to Fox News's New York headquarters to deliver a petition to Bill O'Reilly about how they actually do exist. O'Reilly's ambush producer exclusively revealed that most of the…
John Stossel may have gotten an eyeful as he dined at the Central Park Boathouse recently. The "20/20" investigator was at a table close to Barbara Corcoran when friends told the real-estate royal she'd lost weight. "Show us your butt," cried one, and Corcoran obliged, dropping trou ...
Coming hot on the heels of…
Confirmed: Oprah Winfrey doesn't read Gawker. She had to hear from the Daily News that her dad Vernon Winfrey is writing a book about her, and she didn't even believe it at first. "I called him and it turned out he is writing a book. The worst part of it was him saying, 'I meant to tell you I've been working on it,'"…
Our fair city's dueling tabs are at it again, stirring up a tempest in a teapot over Sienna Miller's supposedly "real" sex scene in Factory Girl. Yesterday, Rush & Molloy reported that "an insider" had been running around claiming that "It's not simulated. They're really doing it." Today, however, Page Six contradicts…
At least, that's what an item in today's Rush & Molloy would have us believe:
She does come across pretty well in that profile, doesn't she? Let's take a closer look . . .To our minds, this is actually a totally understandable mistake. Who knew there was an Uggs-wearing elderly white guy who went around crashing parties and calling himself Shaggy? Not us, that's for sure! We were too busy, we don't know, reducing our carbon emissions or something. Important stuff. Anyway, there is, and…
• Diddy reveals that he's just too damn old for this shit: after staying up all night and partying, he overslept and showed up over 5 hours late to his White Party. When you're too tired to go to your own vanity event, it's time to throw in the towel. [Page Six]
• Christie Brinkley comes face-to-face with philandering…
Meta-gossip: over at the Daily News, George Rush & Joanna Molloy's two beloved stringers, Chris Rovzar and Jo Piazza, have legally emancipated themselves from their gossip family. After two years of alcoholic reporting, they're both moving up to the News' feature section, where they'll bend to the mercurial will of…
