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Your Quotes for 2 June 2005 - Gossip

Elda Furry was born at Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania on this day in 1890. She quit school after the eighth grade to join a theatre troupe, sometimes danced in chorus lines in New York City. In 1913 she married an older actor, William DeWolfe Hopper, they moved to Hollywood before the divorce. Elda, now appearing as Hedda Hopper, played a number of "best friend" and "other woman" roles, but was always not quite in the chips until 1931 when she started a radio show covering the offscreen lives of Hollywood. Starting in 1938 she covered the same material in a column for the Los Angeles Times. The town wanted to know the dirt, and the stars didn't dare go too long without getting mentioned - she referred to her Beverly Hills home as "the house that fear built".

Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
     - Earl Wilson

A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
     - John Tudor

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
     - Spanish proverb

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
     - Walter Winchell, 1897 - 1972

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
     - Will Rogers, 1879 - 1935

Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.
     - Hedda Hopper, 1890 - 1966

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