gossip columnist

Over the past century, Pacific Dining Car was popular with celebrities such as Mae West and the gossip columnist Louella Parsons, while also serving as a backdrop in films, according to the restaurant’s website.

But this paper had an immediate fan in gossip columnist Hedda Hopper, who noted that tourists finally had a glimpse of Hollywood that went beyond “looking at a bunch of footprints in concrete.”

In the 1930s, gossip columnists began publishing accounts of Hollywood divas, who were extremely exacting about their work.

“Being a gossip columnist in a small town is the best possible job a writer can have,” he said.

Smith was definitely one of those ladies — like Britney Spears and Pamela Anderson — who was ridiculed by comedians and gossip columnists for her flamboyant party girl lifestyle.