"I’m too old for gossip," insists 92-year-old Liz Smith, delicately settling into a banquette at her favorite Tex Mex watering hole in Murray Hill. But a few hours with the legendary columnist proves that’s far from the truth.

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Liz Smith, our “2000-year-old gossip columnist” (as she calls herself) is migrating to the New York Social Diary. We are grateful to now link to her daily column. Please visit Liz at her new home!

“DON’T PUT your daughter on the stage Mrs. Worthington,” goes the Noel Coward ditty. Today, Will Smith might be thinking along the same lines — don’t put your son in your movies Mr. Smith! “After Earth,” the post-apocalyptic sci-fi entry which stars Will and his son Jaden, not only received scathing reviews but a poor […]

“WHAT people think of me is none of my business!” This has been attributed to Oscar Wilde, Mae West and Gary Oldman. So, who do you think said it? THE music world lost a great champion over Memorial Day. She was Jean Bach, a beauty in her 90s who reigned over the jazz and music […]

“I EVALUATED myself very carefully. It sounds vain and egotistical to say, but I knew I was good looking.” That was the late Greg Bautzer, Hollywood lawyer and romancer deluxe. BAUTZER IS the subject of a fascinating new biography, The Man Who Seduced Hollywood: The Life and Loves of Greg Bautzer, by B. James Gladstone […]

“MOST AWARDS, you know, they don’t give you unless you go and get them. Did you know that? Terribly discouraging!” So said young Barbra Streisand, back when she was first receiving armfuls of awards. Since then, she’s mellowed a bit about being adored. WE REALLY have to call her “Dr. Streisand” now. On June 17th, […]

“WHAT a rage for fame attends both great and small! Better be damned than mentioned not at all!” wrote Peter Pindar. I WAS in Orso, the under-stated theatre café on West 44th Street the other night, and there was music tycoon Clive Davis with his entire family. I asked why they seemed so excited? “Why, because we […]

“THERE’S NO smoking in this building, ma’am.” “What are you going to do, arrest me for smoking?” So it went between murder suspect Sharon Stone and the detectives grilling her in 1992’s “Basic Instinct.” Moments later Sharon briefly uncrossed her legs and made movie history. (“I forgot my panties that day,” Stone would later complain […]

“CHINA IS a big country, inhabited by many Chinese,” said Charles de Gaulle, with incredible insight. FANS of Ang Lee’s “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” were caught by surprise when they learned that a sequel is being planned. Thirteen years after the original film debuted, they’d just about given up hope. But the Weinstein Company has […]