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Nobody, except Stork Club owner Sherman Billingsley, seems to have really liked Walter Winchell.
Dec. 9, 1990
Books
Was there ever a season when so many gossipy, sordid and celebrity-driven books were vying for attention?
Oct. 21, 1994
World & Nation
Herman Klurfeld’s secret life ended one day in January 1952 when a New York Post photographer emerged from the bushes of his Long Island apartment building and snapped away.
Dec. 22, 2006
It is said that famed gossip columnist Walter Winchell could make a star or snuff out a career with the stroke of his pen.
Dec. 13, 1990
Entertainment & Arts
“Sweet Smell of Success,” screening Saturday at 8 p.m. in the County Museum of Art’s Bing Theater as part of its Burt Lancaster series, has lost none of its bite in the 28 years since it was made.
Sept. 25, 1985
A novel that begins with a preface is like a play subtitled “a comedy”--a signal of the author’s doubts.
May 27, 1990
Movies
Rear Window, Shmindow. If someone wants to have a go at remaking a film classic, why not?
Nov. 20, 1998
Nobody, except maybe Stork Club owner Sherman Billingsley, seems to have really liked Walter Winchell.
Dec. 12, 1990
Every sorcerer must have his apprenticeship; and Henry Allen, the Washington Post’s weaver of spells, served his as a trainee at the New York Daily News at the end of the 1960s.
Nov. 13, 1994