Liz Smith

Gebundenes Buch

Natural Blonde

A Memoir

Beschreibung

America's top gossip columnist spills the beans as she traces "five decades of battling press agents and editors and landing celebrity scoops" ("Variety"). From Tallulah Bankhead to Madonna, the ultimate insider has hobnobbed, air kissed, and written about everybody who's been anybody over the last half century. Two 16-page color inserts.

Autor

Liz Smith is a Texan who grew up worshiping the likes of Tom Mix and his horse Tony as well as Astaire and Rogers at the movies. She wrote her first column after listening to Walter Winchell on the radio and went on to create a gossip pillar at the University of Texas, where she studied journalism. A champion of literacy and the fight against AIDS, she has raised millions for these causes. She won the Matrix Award for journalism and an Emmy Award for TV reporting at WNBC. Liz has been in Vanity Fair's Hall of Fame, endured the Playboy Q&A and answered the Proust questionnaire. She was recently named a "Living Landmark" by the Landmarks Conservancy of New York.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hachette Books
• Seitenzahl: 460
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 165mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 862g
• ISBN-13: 9780786863259
• ISBN-10: 0786863250
• Artikelnr.: 25500471