New York Post drops Liz Smith

[TheSportsPredictor]

http://NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Post is dropping Liz Smith's column this week to save money, leaving the legendary gossip columnist without a newspaper home in the city for the first time in 33 years. "I'm very sorry that that has come to an end, and that I wasn't valuable enough for them to keep me on," the 86-year-old Smith said Tuesday.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g72pmt0jF_l-Cj8_ul3iFrSHDYlwD96IA8T80

Last column to appear Thursday.

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

They have Page Six, which is grittier, so it's not like they're abandoning gossip.

 

[ArnoldBabar]

Strangely, she was kind of like the first blog before there were computers.

 

[markvid]

she's 86? wow.

 

[fishwrapper]

I had no idea she was 86.

 

[CCaple]

Talk about being born at the right time. Something tells me she'll be fine.

 

[spnited]

I thought she was dead.

 

[DanOregon]

Caught the blind item Tuesday about "an actor doing coke in a bathroom at an Oscars party while a recently slimmed-down stoner star was smoking pot outside (figure the last one was Seth Rogan). The best was number three about a morning cable hostess who recently returned after getting her eyes and chest done.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

They'd cut back LS's frequency, a few years ago, as it was.

Meanwhile, Cindy Adams rolls on.

 

[PeteyPirate]

Caught the blind item Tuesday about "an actor doing coke in a bathroom at an Oscars party while a recently slimmed-down stoner star was smoking pot outside (figure the last one was Seth Rogan). The best was number three about a morning cable hostess who recently returned after getting her eyes and chest done.

Mika? She was gone to "the south of France" for a few days.

 

[Boom_70]

They'd cut back LS's frequency, a few years ago, as it was.

Meanwhile, Cindy Adams rolls on.

Do you think more than 10 people read Cindy Adams a day?

 

[Ben_Hecht]

They'd cut back LS's frequency, a few years ago, as it was.

Meanwhile, Cindy Adams rolls on.

Do you think more than 10 people read Cindy Adams a day?

Frankly, yes . . . my belief is that CA's stuff is very well-read . . . unlike Liz, who has
disintegrated into little more than a shill for her special pets (Cruise, Travolta,
Madonna, et al) in recent years. It's obvious that certain people have an enormous
amount of clout in terms of getting mentioned the "right way" in certain metro area
gossip columns, but to maintain optimum reader interest, you'd think it would be
wise to spread the plugs around, just a little bit.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

She was on Ugly Betty last week. I'm guessing her column will continue to be syndicated.

 

[Mediator]

You know, with all the evil things happening to our business, this one alarms me not.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

You know, with all the evil things happening to our business, this one alarms me not.

Speak for yourself. ;D

 

[Drip]

They'd cut back LS's frequency, a few years ago, as it was.

Meanwhile, Cindy Adams rolls on.

Do you think more than 10 people read Cindy Adams a day?

I recall Cindy Adams doing a piece on the Yankees in the early 1990's. One of the lines was about a players behind. She wrote "nice."
Lost the little respect I had for her with that one.

 

[mike311gd]

I thought she was dead.

Cross her off, then?

 

[Ben_Hecht]

She was on Ugly Betty last week. I'm guessing her column will continue to be syndicated.

Correct.


Not to mention (God help us) that she's picking up James Brady's dropped interview baton
in Charade Magazine.

 

[TopOfTheCircle]

Only in New York, kids. Only in New York.

 

[micke77]

Hell, the fact that she's still cranking it out at 86 should be deserving of some space in that paper.