Gossip columnist Liz Smith, known as the `Dame of Dish,` dies at 94
(LA Times MLB)

Gossip columnist Liz Smith, whose mixture of banter, barbs and bon mots about the glitterati helped her climb the A-list as high as many of the celebrities she covered, has died. Literary agent Joni Evans told the Associated Press she died Sunday in New York of natural causes. She was 94. For more...