]–[>]
Austen, Jane, [>], [>]
autobiography. See self-gossip
Ayer, A. J., [>]–[>]
Babbitt (Lewis), [>]
Bachelor, The (TV show), [>]
Bachrach, Judy, [>]
backbiting, [>], [>]
bad behavior, gossip about, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Baker, Josephine, [>]
Balderston, Katherine, [>]
Baldwin, James, [>]
Balfour, Patrick, [>]
Balzac, Honoré de, [>], [>]
Bankhead, Tallulah, [>]
Barchester Towers (Trollope), [>]
Barnes, Julian, [>]
Barr, Roseanne, [>]
Barrymore, John, [>]
Beaton, Cecil, [>]
Beauvoir, Simone de, [>], [>]–[>]
Beaverbrook, Lord, [>]
"been there, done that," [>]
Beginning of the Journey, The (D. Trilling), [>]
Bellow, Saul, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Bennett, James Gordon, [>]
Bennett, Mary, [>]–[>]
Bennett, William, [>]
Bentivoglio, [>]
Berenson, Bernard, [>]–[>]
Bergmann, Jörg, [>]
Berlin, Isaiah
character modeled on, [>]
gossip about, [>]
love of gossip, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
Bernstein, Carl, [>]
Bernstein, Felicia, [>]–[>]
Bernstein, Jeremy, [>]
Bernstein, Leonard, [>]–[>]
Bernstein, Richard, [>]
Berra, Yogi, [>]
Billboard, [>]
Billingsley, Sherman, [>], [>]
biography, gossip in, [>]–[>]
Birstein, Ann, [>]–[>]
births, out of wedlock, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Bitterwaitress blog, [>]
Black, Barbara, [>]
Black, Conrad, [>]
blackmail, [>]–[>]
Black Panther fundraiser, Wolfe article about, [>]–[>]
Blackwood, Caroline, [>]
Blair, Betsy, [>]
Blessington, Lady, [>]
blind item, [>]–[>]. See also Winchell, Walter
blogs. See also self-gossip
correcting errors in, [>], [>]
malicious/destructive gossip in, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
recounting indiscretions in, [>]
Bloom, Allan, [>]
Bloom, Claire, [>]–[>]
Bloom, Harold, [>]
Boetticher, Budd, [>]
Bonaparte, Mathilde, [>]
Book of Daniel (Doctorow), [>]
Boorstin, Daniel J., [>]
Boston Globe, [>]
Boswell, James, [>], [>]–[>]
Boulogne, Duc de, [>]
Bourgogne, Duc de, [>]
Bowles, Camilla Parker, [>]
Bowra, Maurice, [>], [>]–[>]
Braden, Joan, [>]
Bradlee, Ben, [>]
Brandeis, Louis, [>]
Brando, Marlon, [>]
Braudy, Leo, [>]
Breakfast at Tiffany's (Capote), [>]
Bright Young Things, [>]
Brisbane, Arthur, [>]
Britain, Great. See England
Brontö sisters, [>]
Brooke, Edward, [>]
Broun, Heywood, [>]
Brown, George Hambley and Bettina, [>]–[>]
Brown, Homer Obed, [>]
Brown, Tina (Christina)
childhood, ambitions, [>]–[>]
The Daily Beast, [>]–[>]
The Diana Chronicles, [>]
marriage, [>]
on moral benefits of gossip, [>]
move to America, [>]
networking skills, [>]
The New Yorker, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
Talk, [>]–[>]
Tatler, [>]
understanding of Zeitgeist, [>], [>]–[>]
Vanity Fair, [>]–[>]
Bryant, Kobe, [>]
Brynner, Yul, [>]
Buchalter, Louis "Lepke," [>]
Buchanan, James, [>]
Buffet, Warren, [>]–[>]
Burnett, Carol, [>]–[>]
Busch, Wilhelm, [>]
busybody, [>], [>]–[>]
"Busy-Body" column, [>]
buzz, creating, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Byron, Lord, [>], [>]–[>]
cable television, [>]
café society, [>]
Cagney, James, [>]
Callas, Maria, [>]–[>], [>]
Camus, Albert, [>]
candor
as motive for gossip, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
and self-gossip, [>]–[>]
as social norm, [>]
Capote, Truman, [>], [>]–[>]
Carson, Johnny, [>]–[>]
Carson, Rachel, [>]
Cartland, Barbara, [>]–[>], [>]
Cassini, Igor, [>]
Cassini, Oleg, [>]
Castro, Fidel, [>], [>]
catty remarks, [>], [>]
CBS, [>]
celebrities, celebrity
celebrity class/cult, [>], [>], [>], [>]
demystification of through gossip, [>]
interest in, enduring, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Internet and, [>]
new vs. old gossip, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
and public's right to know, [>]–[>]
reporting about, as news, [>]–[>]
right to privacy of, [>], [>]
royalty as, [>]–[>], [>]
and Schadenfreude, [>]
and self-promotion, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Chafetz Chaim (Seeker of Life) (Kagan), [>]
Channon, Chips, [>]
Chaplin, Charlie, [>]
character/personality, elucidating, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
characters, fictional, sources for, [>]–[>]
Charles, Prince of Wales, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Chatwin, Bruce, [>]
Cheever, John, [>]
Cheney, Dick, [>]
Cheney, Lynne, [>]
Chevreuse, Duc de, [>]
Chicago Cubs, [>]–[>]
Child of the Century (Hecht), [>]
Churchill, Randolph, [>], [>]
Churchill, Winston, [>]
City Boy (White), [>]–[>]
Clerambault, Mme. de, [>]
Cleveland, Grover, [>]
Cleveland, Ruth, [>]
Clift, Montgomery, [>]
Clinton, Bill, [>], [>], [>]
Clinton, Hillary, [>], [>], [>]
Cohn, Roy, [>], [>]
Collins, Gail, [>]
Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare), [>]
Communism, [>]
Compton, Betty, [>]
Condé Nast magazines, [>], [>]
confessional poetry/literature, [>]–[>]. See also self-gossip
Confidential magazine, [>], [>]–[>]
Connolly, Cyril, [>], [>]
context, importance of, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
conversational tone, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Cosmopolitan, [>]
Couric, Katie, [>], [>]
Coward, Noöl, [>], [>]–[>]
Craig, Larry, [>]
Cramton Hodnet (Pym), [>]
crime, gossip about, [>], [>]
criticism, gossipy, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Cronkite, Walter, [>]
Crosby, Dixie Lee, [>]
Crowninshield, Frank, [>]
Cuneo, Ernest, [>]–[>], [>]
curiosity, as rationale for gossip, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Curtis, Tony, [>]
Cutler, Jessica, [>]–[>]
cyber courage, [>]
Daily Beast, The, [>], [>]–[>]
Daily Mail, [>]
Daily News (London), [>]
damage. See also malicious gossip
from leaks, [>]
proving, and libel, [>]
and sec
rets, [>]
and spreading rumors/secrets, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Dancing with the Stars (TV show), [>]
Daniel Deronda (Eliot), [>]
Darnton, Robert, [>]
Davey, Jocelyn (Chaim Raphael), [>]
David, Prince of Wales, [>]–[>]
Davis, Ossie, [>], [>]
Davis, Sammy, Jr., [>], [>]
decorum, as social norm, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
"Deep Throat," leaks by, [>]–[>]
definitions, origins of "gossip" as term, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Defoe, Daniel, [>]
Delacroix, Eugène, [>]
d'Elbeuf, Duc, [>]
de Mille, Agnes, [>]
Dempster, Nigel, [>]
Depression, the, [>]
de Rouvroy, Louis. See Saint-Simon, Duc de
d'Estrées, Maréchale, [>]–[>]
Devil in the Holy Water, The (Darnton), [>]–[>]
Diana, Princess of Wales, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Diana Chronicles, The (Brown), [>]
diaries, gossip in, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Dickens, Charles, [>]
Dickinson, Angie, [>], [>]
Dietrich, Marlene, [>], [>]
DiFonzo, Nicholas, [>]–[>]
Diller, Barry, [>]
DiMaggio, Joe, [>]–[>], [>]
Discreet Indiscretions (Bergmann), [>]
disloyalty, [>], [>]
Divorced in America: Marriage in an Age of Possibility (Epstein), [>]–[>]
Doctorow, E. L., [>]
"dog-poop girl," [>]–[>]
Dolphin, The (Lowell), [>]
Domitius, [>]–[>]
Donaldson, William, [>]
Donohoe, Jimmy, [>]
Don't Date Him Girl blog, [>]
Drew, Elizabeth, [>]
Dreyfuss, Richard, [>]–[>]
Driberg, Tom, [>]
Drudge, Matt, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Drudge Report, The, [>]
Dubois, Abbé, [>]
Dunne, Dominick, [>]
economic disparities, and interest in gossip, [>]–[>]
Edinburgh Review, [>]
Editor and Publisher, [>]
Edwards, John, [>]–[>], [>]
Edward VII, [>]
egotism, [>], [>]
Eisenhower, Dwight David, [>]
Eliot, George (Mary Anne Evans), [>]–[>]
Eliot, T. S., [>]
Elizabeth II, [>]
e-mail, gossip in, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
embarrassment, public, [>]
Encyclopaedia Britannica, [>]
England
development of professional gossip in, [>]–[>]
gossip about royalty, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
interest in prurient gossip, [>]
libel laws, [>]–[>]
Mosley vs. News of the World, [>]
entertainment, gossip as, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Entertainment Tonight (TV show), [>]
envy, as motive, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
epistemology, [>]
Erikson, Erik, [>]
Esquire magazine articles, [>]
ethical costs, [>], [>]–[>]
"Ethics of Gossiping, The" (Westacott), [>]
etymology, [>]–[>]
Europe, privacy vs. publicity in, [>]
Evans, Harry, [>]
Evans, Lady. See Brown, Tina
Evening Standard, [>]
exclusivity, emphasizing, [>], [>], [>]
exposés, public exposure. See also celebrities, celebrity; Internet
blogs, [>], [>]
as goal, [>], [>]
intimacy vs., [>]
and journalism, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
through literary criticism, [>]
Facebook, [>], [>]–[>]
facts, evidence
as basis for gossip, [>], [>], [>]
interpretation of, [>], [>]
speculation vs., [>], [>]
Fag Rag, [>]
false gossip, retelling, [>]
Fame and Fortune (Raphael), [>]
family values adherents, misbehavior among, [>]
Farrow, Mia, [>]
"fascinating speculation," [>]
Faulkner, William, [>]
Fay, Paul B., [>]
fellatio, gossip about, [>]–[>]
Felt, William Mark, Sr., [>]
female readers, [>]
Fenelon, archbishop of Cambrai, [>]
fiction, gossip-based, [>]–[>]
Fiddler, Jimmy, [>]
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, [>]
Flaubert, Gustave, [>]
Flynn, Errol, [>], [>]
Fontaine, Pat, [>]
Fontanne, Lynn, [>]
forgiveness, [>]
Forster, E. M., [>]
Fortas, Abe, [>]
Foster, Vincent, [>]
France, professional gossips in, [>]. See also Saint-Simon, Duc de
Frankenthaler, Helen, [>]–[>]
Frankfurter, Marion, [>]–[>]
Franklin, Benjamin, [>], [>]
"Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" (Talese), [>]
freedom of speech, [>], [>], [>]. See also right to know
Free Flow of Information Act, [>]
Freud, Sigmund, [>]
Front Page, The (play, MacArthur), [>]
Fuller, Bonnie, [>]
Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet, The (Solove), [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Gabler, Neal, [>]–[>], [>]
Garbo, Greta, [>]
Gardner, Ava, [>]
Gardner, Isabella Stewart, [>]
Gaskell, Elizabeth, [>]
Gates, Bill, [>]–[>]
Gawker.com, [>]
gay gossip. See also sexual gossip
humor/playfulness in, [>], [>]–[>]
impact of AIDS on, [>]–[>]
outing and, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
purveyors of, [>]–[>]
"General, The" (O'Hara), [>]
Ghost Writer, The (Roth), [>]
Gibson, Mel, [>]
Gielgud, John, [>]
Glamour magazine, [>]
Goffman, Erving, [>]
Goldberg, Arthur, [>]
Golden Notebook, The (Lessing), [>]
Goldman, Ronald, [>]
good taste. See decorum
Gordon, Caroline, [>]
Gossip (Spacks), [>]–[>]
gossip, busybody vs., [>]–[>]
gossip columnists
Addison and Steele, [>]
Boswell, [>]
courting of, by celebrities, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Defoe, [>]
Driberg, [>]
in England, 20th century, [>]–[>]
Internet-based, [>]–[>]
as judges of character, [>]
Knickerbocker, [>]
Lamb, [>]
as professionals, [>]
Smith, [>]
Winchell, [>]–[>]
gossip historian, Saint-Simon as, [>]
Gossip: The Life and Times of Walter Winchell (McKelway), [>]–[>]
Gosselin, Jon and Kate, [>]
Gottlieb, Robert, [>]
government organizations, role of gossip, [>]. See also political gossip
Graham, Sheilah, [>]
Grand Surprise, The: Journals of Leo Lerman (Lerman), [>]–[>]
Grant, Cary, [>]–[>], [>]
Grant, Christopher, [>]
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