3:11AM Defamer Hollywood | In a candid interview befitting her 85 years of Earthly service, gossip matron Liz Smith
holds forth in the
Observer this week on subjects ranging from the good old docile days of entertainment reporting, her loyal ghostwriters “longtime assistants” Mary Jo and Dennis and the hippie scum that devastated her club-society utopia in the late ’60s. Oh, and she’s horny:
[Smith's memoirs] made waves because Ms. Smith had admitted to affairs with women, including longtime partner Iris Love, though it’s also filled with tales of being hit on and dating and marrying men. “And then some Web site comes along and says, ‘Liz Smith will sleep with anybody,’” she said. “And I thought this was funny, and great, but I was thinking, wow, how times have changed! Not very long ago you would never have printed that about somebody unless you had something on them. Because they would have sued you for it. …
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