Blind Items Revealed #3 - Old Hollywood
May 31, 2016
This reporter was one of the most respected reporters of her time. She landed some interviews that are still considered important a half century later. Some of the interviews she landed were just being in the right time in the right place. Her Hollywood interviews though were her knowing more than everyone else and using that information to get exclusive interviews. (Aline Mosby)
She knew all about this closeted permanent A list singer. The singer would always sue people if they hinted he was gay. The reporter had audio recordings of the singer talking to several different men and offering them money for sex. She used that for access and also to keep him from testifying against one of her employers at a libel trial.
Liberace
She sounds spiteful and dangerous.
ReplyDeleteCutthroat business back then. Think of all the famous gossip columnists all fighting for the same stories. hedda Hopper, Louella Parsons, Shelah Graham. And not to be outdone--Army Archerd.
ReplyDeleteMost of the old Hollywood gossip columnists were evil bitches, and yet they kept secrets like nobody else.
ReplyDelete"The Sweet Smell of Success" wasn't based on nothing.
ReplyDeleteLike today's' gossip columnist back then they were all actors/actresses who didn't "make it" and many were very jaded and bitter so they took any chance they could to make the lives of the ones who did "make it" miserable
ReplyDeleteThat's called having power, dummies.
ReplyDeleteTry it sometime... you might add some zeros to your income.
The good old days.
ReplyDeleteRecording people who are doing stuff they don't want to be made public seems like good business. Especially if it entails recording abusive bosses.
ReplyDeleteIt was so painfully obvious he was gay though! I think I read somewhere he just didn't want his mother to hear it while she was still alive, but I'm sure she knew!
ReplyDeleteBadass
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