As America shed its provincial nineteenth-century sensibilities and slowly entered the modern era, the media emerged as one of the twentieth century's most powerful forces. But until the early 1920s, journalism was still influenced by an older...

The columns mix factual material on marriages, divorces, and arrests, obtained from official records with more speculative gossip stories, rumors, and innuendo about romantic relationships, affairs, and purported personal problems. Gossip columnists...

Byline: MICHAEL BARRATT IN 1977, a recently divorced Michael Barratt tried to escape the gossip columnists by flying to the Caribbean island of Grenada to marry his fellow presenter on BBC1's Nationwide, Dilys Morgan, 20 years his junior. Since then, the...

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Southerly’s, Krist Krueger’s nom de plume, résumé would be rather extensive if he wrote it out on clean white sheets of paper rather than within musical bars. Let’s start with singer, then add: songwriter, music arranger, recording engineer, label manager, booking agent and music critic....

Popular Internet gossip columnist Perez Hilton had his Web site shut down for several hours after the company hosting it received a flurry of complaints about copyrighted photos being posted on PerezHilton.com.After being silenced on Tuesday, the site was back online Wednesday but hosted by...