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Gossip

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by Joseph Epstein


  Playboy feature with Cutler, [>]

  Pleasure of His Company, The (Fay), [>]–[>]

  Plowright, Joan, [>]

  plutocracy, American, gossip about, [>]

  Podhoretz, John, [>]

  political gossip

  exposés, public exposure, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  and leaks, [>]–[>]

  and political orientation, [>]–[>]

  popularity of, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  purveyors of, [>]–[>]

  subversive nature of, [>]–[>]

  Pontchartrain, Chancellor, son and wife of, [>]

  Powell, Colin, [>]–[>]

  Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, The (Goffman), [>]

  Presley, Elvis, [>], [>]

  prestige, reputation vs., [>], [>], [>]

  privacy. See also damage; malicious gossip

  and celebrity, [>], [>]

  and exclusivity, [>]

  Internet and, [>]–[>]

  lawsuits related to, [>]

  publicity vs., [>], [>]

  and secrets, [>]

  private gossip

  as news, [>]

  public gossip vs., [>]–[>]

  reticence vs., [>]–[>]

  and status, [>]–[>]

  Private Lives (Coward), [>]

  professional gossips, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]. See also gossip columnists and specific individuals

  Profumo, John/Profumo Affair, [>]

  Proust, Marcel, [>], [>], [>]

  prurient gossip, [>]–[>], [>]

  psychotherapy, and the hidden, [>], [>]

  public gossip. See also exposés, public exposure

  and changes in decorum/social tone, [>]–[>]

  news vs., [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  new vs. old gossip, [>]

  private gossip vs., [>]–[>]

  publicity, privacy vs., [>]. See also celebrities, celebrity

  Purlie Victorius (Davis), [>], [>]

  Putin, Vladimir, [>]

  Pym, Barbara, [>]

  Qaddafi, Muammar, [>]

  Quinn, Sally, [>]

  Rader, Dotson, [>]

  "Radical Chic" (Wolfe), [>]–[>]

  radio, gossip on, [>]–[>]

  Radner, Gilda, [>]

  Radziwill, Lee, [>]

  Raphael, Frederic, [>], [>]

  Ravelstein (Bellow), [>], [>]

  Reagan, Ronald, [>]

  Reasoner, Harry, [>]

  receiving gossip, [>]. See also audience for gossip

  Reed, Rex, [>]

  reputation

  and academic gossip, [>], [>]

  as busybody/gossip, [>], [>], [>]

  long-term impacts, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  and malicious gossip, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  and New Journalism, [>]

  prestige vs., [>]

  reticence, vs. willingness to gossip, [>]–[>]

  revenge

  and leaks, [>]

  as motive for gossip, [>], [>], [>]

  revenge blogs, [>]–[>]

  Revenge World blog, [>]

  Reverberator, The (James), [>]–[>]

  Review of General Psychology, [>]

  rich people, gossip about, [>]–[>]

  right to know, privacy vs., [>], [>], [>]

  "Right to Privacy, The" (Brandeis and Warren), [>]

  Rizzuto, Phil, [>]

  Robinson, Edward G., [>]

  Rockefeller, John D., [>]

  rock musicians, gossip about, [>]

  Rogers, Pat, [>]

  Rolling Stone, [>]

  romans à clef, [>]

  Rooney, Mickey, [>]

  Roosevelt, Franklin Delano

  malicious gossip about, [>]

  relationship with Winchell, [>], [>], [>]

  respect for privacy of, [>]

  Roosevelt, Teddy, [>]

  Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel, [>]

  Rosenfeld, Isaac, [>]

  Ross, Lillian, [>]–[>]

  Roth, Philip, [>]–[>], [>]

  royalty, gossip about, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]. See also celebrities, celebrity

  Rubria, [>]–[>]

  rumors, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Russell, Bertrand, [>]–[>]

  Ruth, Babe, [>]

  Ryle, Gilbert, [>], [>]

  Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin, [>]

  Saint-Simon, Duc de (Louis de Rouvroy)

  complaints by, [>]–[>]

  compliments, [>]–[>]

  forgiveness and, [>]

  gossip about, [>]

  as gossip historian, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  influence, [>]–[>], [>]

  loss of favor, [>]–[>]

  and Louis XIV, [>]–[>]

  Memoirs, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  motives, speculation about, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  politics and ethics, [>]

  wife, [>]–[>]

  Saint-Simon, Duchesse de, [>]–[>]

  Salovey, Peter, [>]

  Sanders, George, [>]

  Santayana, George, [>]–[>], [>]

  Sarah Lawrence College, [>]–[>]

  Sartre, Jean-Paul, [>]

  Saturday Night Live (TV show), [>]

  Saumery, [>]–[>]

  Sawyer, Diane, [>]

  Scandal: A Scurrilous History of Gossip (Wilkes), [>], [>]

  Scarlet Letter, The (Hawthorne), [>]

  Schadenfreude, [>], [>]

  Schickel, Richard, [>]

  Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr., [>]–[>]

  scholarly gossip, [>]

  Scoop (Waugh), [>]

  scoops, [>]

  Scorpion Tongues: The Irresistible History of Gossip in American Politics (Collins), [>]

  Scott, Randolph, [>], [>]–[>]

  secrets

  assumptions about, [>]

  breaching, [>]

  as key element of gossip, [>], [>]

  Seinfeld (TV show), [>]

  Seinfeld, Jerry, [>]

  self-gossip, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]. See also blogs

  sensationalism, [>]

  sexual gossip. See also gay gossip

  and changing social norms, [>], [>]–[>]

  in 21th-century newspapers, [>]

  about politicians, [>]–[>]

  popularity of, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  purveyors of, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  subjects of, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  among young boys, [>]

  Shakespeare, William (Comedy of Errors), [>]

  Shawn, Cecille, [>]

  Shawn, William

  editorship of The New Yorker, [>], [>]

  gossip about, [>], [>]–[>]

  public vs. private persona, [>]

  Simmel, Georg, [>]

  Simpson, O. J., [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Simpson, Wallis (Duchess of Windsor), [>], [>]–[>]

  sin, gossip as, [>]–[>]

  Sinatra, Frank, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Singer, Isaac Bashevis, [>]–[>], [>]

  sins vs. virtue, as subject of gossip, [>]–[>]

  62 Minutes (TV show), [>]

  slander, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Smith, Liz, [>], [>]

  Smith, Logan Pearsall, [>]

  Smith, Sydney, [>]–[>]

  Smith, Will, [>]–[>]

  snobbery, name-dropping, [>], [>], [>]

  Sobol, Louis, [>]

  "social analysis," [>]–[>], [>]

  "Social Comparison Account of Gossip, A" (Wert and Salovey), [>]

  social networking, [>]

  social norms

  and access to gossip, [>]–[>]

  and candor, [>]–[>]

  and concepts of good taste, [>]

  and gossip-worthy behaviors, [>]

  impacts of gossip on, [>]–[>]

  and increased tolerance, [>], [>]–[>]

  social uses of gossip, [>]–[>]

  society papers, [>]–[>]

  Socrates, [>]

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p; Solove, Daniel J., [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Sontag, Susan, [>]–[>]

  Spacks, Patricia Meyer, [>]–[>]

  Spectator, [>], [>]

  speculation, as invitation to gossip, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Sport magazine, [>]

  Sporus, [>]–[>]

  spreading gossip, [>]–[>]. See also audience for gossip

  Springsteen, Bruce, [>]

  "square" society, [>]

  Stanley, Henry, [>]

  status needs, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]. See also celebrities, celebrity

  Steele, Richard, [>], [>]

  Stein, Jean and Jules, [>]

  Stendhal, [>], [>]–[>]

  Stevenson, Adlai, [>], [>]

  Stewart, Martha, [>]

  Stork Club, [>]–[>]

  Stuart, Lyle, [>]

  subversive gossip, [>]–[>]

  Suetonius, [>]–[>]

  Sullivan, Andrew, [>]–[>]

  Sunday Express, [>]

  Sunday Times, [>]

  Sunstein, Cass, [>]

  support groups, [>]

  Susann, Jacqueline, [>]

  Sweet Smell of Success (movie), [>], [>]

  Symposium, The (Plato), [>]

  tabloid press, [>]

  Talese, Gay, [>]–[>], [>]

  "talk against others," [>]

  Talk magazine, [>]–[>]

  talk-radio shows, [>]

  Talleyrand, [>]

  Talmud, [>], [>], [>]

  Tatler, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Taylor, Elizabeth, [>], [>]

  technology, and expansion of audience for gossip, [>]

  television

  and celebrity, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  and public gossip, [>]

  therapeutic gossip, [>]–[>]

  Thrale, Hester, [>]

  Thury, Marquis de, [>]

  Thy Neighbor's Wife (Talese), [>]–[>]

  Tiberius, [>]

  Tilden, Bill, [>]

  Time magazine, [>]

  Times (London), [>]–[>]

  Times Literary Supplement, [>]–[>]

  Tina and Harry Come to America (Bachrach), [>]

  TMZ (TV show), [>]–[>]

  TMZ.com, [>]

  TMZsports.com blog, [>]–[>]

  Tóibín, Colm, [>]

  Tolstoy, Leo, [>], [>]

  Tonight Show, The, [>]–[>]

  Toscanini, Arturo, [>]

  Town Topics, [>]

  Trevor-Roper, Hugh, [>]–[>], [>]

  Trilling, Diana and Lionel, [>]–[>], [>]

  Trilling, James, [>]–[>]

  trivial gossip, [>], [>]–[>]

  Trollope, Anthony, [>], [>]

  Truman, Harry, [>]

  truth

  gossip as, [>], [>]

  of gossip, determining, [>], [>]

  and Internet gossip, [>]

  and public vs. private self, [>]–[>], [>]

  Turgenev, Ivan, [>]–[>]

  Turner, Lana, [>]

  Twitter, [>]–[>], [>]

  Tynan, Kathleen and Kenneth, [>]

  types of gossip, [>]–[>]

  unedited information, [>]–[>], [>]

  United States

  celebrity culture, [>], [>]–[>]

  changes in cultural norms, [>]

  libel laws, [>]–[>]

  privacy vs. publicity in, [>]

  Updike, John, [>]

  Ursins, Madame des, [>]

  US Weekly, [>]

  vanity, revealing, [>], [>]

  Vanity Fair magazine

  Brown's editorship of, [>]–[>]

  changes in content, tone, [>]

  Dickinson interview, [>]

  Miller story in, [>]–[>]

  Newhouse purchase of, [>]

  Vaudeville News, [>]

  Vendôme, Duc de, [>]

  Versailles palace, [>]–[>], [>]

  victimhood. See revenge

  Vidal, Gore, [>]–[>]

  View, The (TV show), [>]

  Villeroy, Duchess de, [>]

  Virgin Soil (Turgenev), [>]–[>]

  Voltaire, [>]

  voyeurism, [>]

  vulnerability, universality of, [>]–[>]

  WABC, [>]–[>]

  Waiting for Winter (O'Hara), [>]

  Walker, Jimmy, [>], [>]

  Wall Street Journal, [>]–[>]

  Walters, Barbara

  acting career, [>]

  Audition, [>]–[>]

  childhood and education, [>]–[>]

  daughter, [>]–[>]

  interviews conducted by, [>], [>]–[>]

  marriages and divorces, [>]

  popularity/celebrity, [>]–[>], [>]

  self-image, [>]–[>]

  skills, [>]–[>]

  The View, [>]

  Walters, Jackie, [>]

  Walters, Lou, [>]

  "Walter Winchells of Cyberspace, The" (Williams), [>]–[>]

  War and Peace (Tolstoy), [>]

  Warren, Samuel D., [>]

  Washington, George, [>]–[>]

  Washingtonienne (Cutler), [>]

  Washington Post, [>]–[>]

  Watercooler Effect, The (DiFonzo), [>]

  Waugh, Auberon, [>]

  Waugh, Evelyn, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Webb, Clifton, [>]

  websites, gossip-focused, [>]

  Weidenfeld, George, [>]

  Weiner, Jack, [>]

  Weinschel. See Winchell, Walter

  Weinschel, Chaim, [>]

  Weinstein, Harvey, [>]–[>]

  Welles, Orson, [>]

  Welles, Sumner, [>]

  Wert, Sarah R., [>]–[>]

  Westacott, Emrys, [>]

  Wharton, Edith, [>]

  What I Saw at the Fair (Birstein), [>]

  White, Edmund, [>]–[>]

  Wikipedia, [>]

  Wilde, Oscar

  The Importance of Being Earnest, [>]

  on journalism, [>], [>]

  on scandal, [>]

  wittiness, [>]

  Wilkes, Roger, [>], [>], [>]

  Will, George F., [>]

  Williams, Alex ("The Walter Winchells of Cyberspace"), [>]–[>]

  Williams, Tennessee, [>], [>], [>]

  Wilson, David Sloan, [>]

  Wilson, Earl, [>], [>]

  Wilson, Woodrow, [>]

  Winchell, George, [>]

  Winchell, Jacob, [>]

  Winchell, Walda, [>]

  Winchell, Walter

  and blind item, [>]

  childhood and ambitions, [>]–[>]

  final years, [>]–[>]

  income and wealth, [>]

  influence wielded by, [>]

  language developed by, [>]

  legacy, [>]–[>]

  mob connections, [>]

  at New York Mirror, [>]

  personality, [>]–[>]

  popularity/celebrity, [>]–[>]

  power, [>]–[>]

  as reporter, [>]

  response to criticism, [>]

  self-view, [>

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