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Home › Relationships

Liz Smith | 02/24/2009 11:00 pm

Liz Smith Dishes on Those Who Duped Her!

By Liz Smith RSS
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In response to: Have you ever had a great injustice done to you, and have you forgiven it?
Liz Smith

So many times, so many injustices, so much Forgiveness. I once wrote two separate bylined gossip entertainment columns a day for the New York Daily News and I did this for an entire year before their ill-gotten afternoon edition folded. Did anybody ever thank me or even notice what I had done? Well, Clay Felker did; he was the editor of the afternoon edition. But did anybody else? No. Was I rewarded financially? No. Did the Columbia Review of Journalism write about such an unusual feat? You bet not. 

And then there were the people who decided because I was a so-called "gossip columnist" that it was perfectly ok to revile me in return, tell terrible lies about me, send out fake wedding invitations that were embarrassing and all the rest of what happens to gossip columnists. And I had to try to grin and bear it being that I was the soul of rectitude, a friend to almost all and pure of heart. But forgive and almost forget is my motto.

 

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17 Reader Comments (so far…) Sign In or Register to comment

Buh- Bye
They say revenge is a dish best served cold.  Time to GO GET EM Ms. Smith! How dare the Post drop you!  Pay back time.
By Buh- Bye on 02/24/2009 11:11 pm
Roxanna Chapman
Page 6 will never be the same!  Yikes - where can we read you now?!
By Roxanna Chapman on 02/25/2009 1:23 am
Liz Smith

Dear darling Roxanna, niece of my heart. Page 6 will be the same because I never had anything to do with Pae 6; it was its own entity.

I take no credit nor do I take blame for it.  And you can read me, dear San Antonio girl, right here on wow, five days a week.  Also

my syndicated papers still carry me. But Wow is the place to find Liz now.  Love to all you Texans.  Auntie Liz  

By Liz Smith on 02/25/2009 11:36 am
Jane Hickie

And love to you from out here in the pastures. You were gorgeous on "Ugly Betty," funny and fabulous as always. wowOwow much better company to keep.

Jane 

 

By Jane Hickie on 02/25/2009 4:35 pm
brad berger
Sad day - I too will miss you in the New York Post. You have been my guide to the world of celebs for half of my life and a fun read in the morning before work. Thank you for all the work you have done over the years promoting literacy. Your personal stories about your own life have always added a special touch to your columns. You are the best at what you do. I will continue to follow you on the net and in Parade. Don’t ever stop writing.  Thank you Liz
By brad berger on 02/25/2009 7:13 am
nanchan u
Ms. Liz: You are a lady through and through. Now, I have a personal favor to ask. One of my favorite writers is Helen Gurley Brown, and I have gathered through her books that you are a friend of hers.  Any chance you can sway Helen to write a weekly column (through her assistant, we understand she doesn’t like computers!) for Wow?  I’d love to see both you and her together on this site… thoughts on that?
By nanchan u on 02/25/2009 10:50 am
bruce bellingham

Liz Smith, most certainly pure of heart, paragon of rectitude, you are simply the best in your genre. All the while, you’ve retained wit, and a sense of literacy on this rapidly deteriorating landscape. … Two daily columns? I wrote only one each day, and I had trouble catching my breath, racing to collect the items. You amaze me. I had the pleasure of encountering you one night in Elaine’s. You were funny, and sweetly self-effacing. The NY Post is mad. Yet I’m sure you will even forgive them — and not quite "almost forget." Saints preserve Liz Smith. No one is forgetting you.

Continued success & all good wishes.

By bruce bellingham on 02/25/2009 12:27 pm
Norma Grooms
What a gracious and lovely lady.  We love having you here and reading your posts.
By Norma Grooms on 02/25/2009 1:25 pm
barbara weinger
I have ben such a fan of both your writing and more important as a human being.  I will miss you and the way you so wonderfully balanced telling the "dish" and sharing your beliefs on what is so crucial…literacy…and showing all of us that you do get better as you mature… THANKS!!!!
By barbara weinger on 02/27/2009 4:16 pm
Bunny Blei
Absolutely loved your article on Liza and will continue to read you on the net. The post lost many readers because you will be gone.  Best of luck
By Bunny Blei on 03/01/2009 9:31 am
Lynne M

Liz, you are an inspiration. And re the NYP - I feel your pain! I, too, was a newspaper columnist (writing about the movie industry here in Vancouver) and got the axe two years ago (at the age of 62) after 16 years of hard slogging. Haven’t written a word since, and that’s okay. And by the way, I sent you a funny birthday card for your 80th and you in turn sent me a nice hand-written thank you letter with an offer of assistance should I ever need it. What a mensch! Thank you for that. All the best in your new venture, dear lady - I’ll be here every day just as I was on your Post site.

By Lynne M on 03/02/2009 1:25 am
Pat M
Lynne, your columns in the Sun were always a treat to read, would you believe that your bio is still on the Sun website (http://www2.canada.com/vancouversun/columnists/lynnemcnamara.html)?! Hope you are doing well, those of us who appreciated your snappy writing about the BC film industry sure miss you!
By Pat M on 03/02/2009 2:58 am
Lynne M
thank you Pat! yeah, what were they thinking? isn’t that a hoot that the bio is still there, i did not know! could i charge them for that, hee hee? it was a bit of a shock to be dumped so unceremoniously, and the guy who did it also got dumped, so there! do you work in the film industry?
By Lynne M on 03/02/2009 6:00 pm
Pat M
You’re most welcome Lynne! I don’t know what Canwest was thinking, firing columnists, particularly columnists that everyone actually read, does not save a failing newspaper.

It’s hilarious that the bio is still there, just goes to show that even the web team at Canwest didn’t know what was going on.

Nope, not involved in the film industry, just a happy go lucky student at UBC who always enjoyed your column.
By Pat M on 03/03/2009 1:46 pm
Lynne M

Thanks again Pat. Yeah, newspapers, magazines and TV networks and more are in deep doo-doo….stay in school!

Isn’t this a great website? So glad we can continue to read darling Liz!

By Lynne M on 03/04/2009 11:27 pm
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