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Walter Winchell
WINCHELL, WALTER 1897-1972 C OLUMNIST Gossip The claim that Walter Winchell created the modern gossip column has been disputed, but he was indisputably the most widely known and widely read columnist in American journalism. By various estimates the readers of his... Read more |
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columnist the writer of an essay appearing regularly in a newspaper or periodical, usually under a constant heading. Although originally humorous, the column in many cases has supplanted the editorial for authoritative opinions on world problems. Usually independent of the policy of the... Read more |
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Winchell, Walter
Winchell, Walter [né Wincheles] (1897–1972), journalist. The most influential Broadway columnist...shows, most notably Hellzapoppin, from probable failure. Biography: Winchell, Bob Thomas, 1971. |
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Jessel, George (Albert)
...father. Jessell formed a vaudeville act with Jack Wiener, who became a Hollywood agent, and Walter Winchell, the renowned columnist. Later Winchell and Jessel joined Gus Edwards's famous schoolchildren act, performing alongside Georgie Price... |
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Hellzapoppin
...production opened to divided, if largely favorable reviews, but owed much of its success to persistent plugging by Walter Winchell, at the time probably the most influential Broadway columnist. |
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Good News!
...Varsity Drag. This melodic, roistering musical has often been called the quintessential musical of the 1920s. Walter Winchell welcomed the Schwab–Frank Mandel show as “flip, fast, furious, free and flamingly festive.” A botched... |
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Herr, Michael
...of the best accounts of combat by Americans in that war. Herr wrote the narration for the film Apocalypse Now and Walter Winchell: A Novel (1990), a fictional biography of the journalist famed in the 1930s and '40s, emphasizing his Jewishness... |
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Cradle Snatchers
...pleasantly, if not irrevocably, chastened. The Sam H. Harris and Hassard Short–produced comedy was hailed by Walter Winchell in the Graphic as “unquestionably the funniest play in town.” Many critics gave their brightest adjectives... |
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Edwards, Gus
...Among the many future stars to whom he gave starts in his acts were Eddie Cantor, George Jessel, Georgie Price, Walter Winchell, and the Duncan sisters. While assembling acts, he also began to write songs. Still popular are his “In My... |
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Spelvin, George
...Hoss and Hoss (1893). Its use was most widely popularized by Winchell Smith, who first employed the name for a performer in Brewster...employed. In England the false name used for similar occasions is “Walter Plinge.” |
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Walter Winchell, In His Glory Days
...batty, cuckoo and haywire. Walter Winchell was one of the most famous...table. Later, FDR summons Winchell to help with national morale and the war effort. He greets Winchell in Winchellese: "Walter, I've got an item for you... |
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Walter Winchell, Mr. and Mrs. America, And All the Ships at Sea
Winchell Gossip, Power and the Culture...Ageneration ago, millions loved Walter Winchell's newspaper column and...applies also to the media. Winchell was proof that such power...Jew, Chaim Weinschel, Walter Winschel (the spelling... |
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Gossip's Forgotten Ancestor; Yes, Walter Winchell Still Haunts Mr. and Mrs....
...Americans, 50 million of whom read Walter Winchell's newspaper column every day...only knew about through Walter Winchell, the wizard of the American vicarious...powerful and famous men of his time. Winchell discovered and occupied a space... |
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Hollywood Gossip.(actor/director Stanley Tucci discusses the history and...
...Esquire: Let's talk about gossip. How did Walter Winchell become Walter Winchell? Tucci: He supposedly created contemporary...is that? Anybody can do that. Are there any Walter Winchell punch lines you'd like to share? He ... |
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Walter Winchell's Ghost
...his review of the HBO special "Walter Winchell, in His Glory Days" {Style...goes off track when it stops being Winchell and starts being {Herman} Klurfeld...press agents" employed by Mr. Winchell. However, the film makes the... |
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Ghostwriter for Walter Winchell
...for pioneering gossip columnist Walter Winchell, died Monday. He was 90.Mr...1965, he wrote two to four of Winchell's columns a week and at one point...large and signature sections of Winchell's Sunday evening radio broadcasts... |
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HBO film transports guests to era of Walter Winchell.(Metropolitan...
...screening of HBO's new movie, "Winchell." So did Stanley Tucci's performance...as venerable radio gossip hound Walter Winchell. "Wow!" Sen. Daniel Patrick...columnist. (At the height of Winchell's power, HBO tells us, 55 million... |
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Walter Winchell.
...also consider Michael Herr's Walter Winchell and Jay Parini's The Last Station...difficult. Even though Walter Winchell is based on the life of a real...between-the-lines account of Winchell, the school dropout and ex-vaudevillian... |
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The Walter Winchell of the elites: the triumph of celebrityism in high-brow...
...America Wherever he is today, Walter Winchell must be positively pea green with...celebrity journalism in the 1930s, Winchell gave John and Jane Q. Public the...lump that new elite together. But Winchell plied his craft in an era when... |
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Walter I. Winchell
TROY, Kan. -- Walter Ira Winchell, 79, of Troy passed away Monday...Raymond and Hazel Almina (Garretson) Winchell. He was a member of the U.S...include two sons: Dennis (Becky) Winchell and Larry (Vicki) Winchell; and... |
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