Playboy feature with Cutler, [>]
Pleasure of His Company, The (Fay), [>]–[>]
Plowright, Joan, [>]
plutocracy, American, gossip about, [>]
Podhoretz, John, [>]
political gossip
exposés, public exposure, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
and leaks, [>]–[>]
and political orientation, [>]–[>]
popularity of, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
purveyors of, [>]–[>]
subversive nature of, [>]–[>]
Pontchartrain, Chancellor, son and wife of, [>]
Powell, Colin, [>]–[>]
Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, The (Goffman), [>]
Presley, Elvis, [>], [>]
prestige, reputation vs., [>], [>], [>]
privacy. See also damage; malicious gossip
and celebrity, [>], [>]
and exclusivity, [>]
Internet and, [>]–[>]
lawsuits related to, [>]
publicity vs., [>], [>]
and secrets, [>]
private gossip
as news, [>]
public gossip vs., [>]–[>]
reticence vs., [>]–[>]
and status, [>]–[>]
Private Lives (Coward), [>]
professional gossips, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]. See also gossip columnists and specific individuals
Profumo, John/Profumo Affair, [>]
Proust, Marcel, [>], [>], [>]
prurient gossip, [>]–[>], [>]
psychotherapy, and the hidden, [>], [>]
public gossip. See also exposés, public exposure
and changes in decorum/social tone, [>]–[>]
news vs., [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
new vs. old gossip, [>]
private gossip vs., [>]–[>]
publicity, privacy vs., [>]. See also celebrities, celebrity
Purlie Victorius (Davis), [>], [>]
Putin, Vladimir, [>]
Pym, Barbara, [>]
Qaddafi, Muammar, [>]
Quinn, Sally, [>]
Rader, Dotson, [>]
"Radical Chic" (Wolfe), [>]–[>]
radio, gossip on, [>]–[>]
Radner, Gilda, [>]
Radziwill, Lee, [>]
Raphael, Frederic, [>], [>]
Ravelstein (Bellow), [>], [>]
Reagan, Ronald, [>]
Reasoner, Harry, [>]
receiving gossip, [>]. See also audience for gossip
Reed, Rex, [>]
reputation
and academic gossip, [>], [>]
as busybody/gossip, [>], [>], [>]
long-term impacts, [>], [>], [>], [>]
and malicious gossip, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
and New Journalism, [>]
prestige vs., [>]
reticence, vs. willingness to gossip, [>]–[>]
revenge
and leaks, [>]
as motive for gossip, [>], [>], [>]
revenge blogs, [>]–[>]
Revenge World blog, [>]
Reverberator, The (James), [>]–[>]
Review of General Psychology, [>]
rich people, gossip about, [>]–[>]
right to know, privacy vs., [>], [>], [>]
"Right to Privacy, The" (Brandeis and Warren), [>]
Rizzuto, Phil, [>]
Robinson, Edward G., [>]
Rockefeller, John D., [>]
rock musicians, gossip about, [>]
Rogers, Pat, [>]
Rolling Stone, [>]
romans à clef, [>]
Rooney, Mickey, [>]
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
malicious gossip about, [>]
relationship with Winchell, [>], [>], [>]
respect for privacy of, [>]
Roosevelt, Teddy, [>]
Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel, [>]
Rosenfeld, Isaac, [>]
Ross, Lillian, [>]–[>]
Roth, Philip, [>]–[>], [>]
royalty, gossip about, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]. See also celebrities, celebrity
Rubria, [>]–[>]
rumors, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Russell, Bertrand, [>]–[>]
Ruth, Babe, [>]
Ryle, Gilbert, [>], [>]
Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin, [>]
Saint-Simon, Duc de (Louis de Rouvroy)
complaints by, [>]–[>]
compliments, [>]–[>]
forgiveness and, [>]
gossip about, [>]
as gossip historian, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
influence, [>]–[>], [>]
loss of favor, [>]–[>]
and Louis XIV, [>]–[>]
Memoirs, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
motives, speculation about, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
politics and ethics, [>]
wife, [>]–[>]
Saint-Simon, Duchesse de, [>]–[>]
Salovey, Peter, [>]
Sanders, George, [>]
Santayana, George, [>]–[>], [>]
Sarah Lawrence College, [>]–[>]
Sartre, Jean-Paul, [>]
Saturday Night Live (TV show), [>]
Saumery, [>]–[>]
Sawyer, Diane, [>]
Scandal: A Scurrilous History of Gossip (Wilkes), [>], [>]
Scarlet Letter, The (Hawthorne), [>]
Schadenfreude, [>], [>]
Schickel, Richard, [>]
Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr., [>]–[>]
scholarly gossip, [>]
Scoop (Waugh), [>]
scoops, [>]
Scorpion Tongues: The Irresistible History of Gossip in American Politics (Collins), [>]
Scott, Randolph, [>], [>]–[>]
secrets
assumptions about, [>]
breaching, [>]
as key element of gossip, [>], [>]
Seinfeld (TV show), [>]
Seinfeld, Jerry, [>]
self-gossip, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]. See also blogs
sensationalism, [>]
sexual gossip. See also gay gossip
and changing social norms, [>], [>]–[>]
in 21th-century newspapers, [>]
about politicians, [>]–[>]
popularity of, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
purveyors of, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
subjects of, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
among young boys, [>]
Shakespeare, William (Comedy of Errors), [>]
Shawn, Cecille, [>]
Shawn, William
editorship of The New Yorker, [>], [>]
gossip about, [>], [>]–[>]
public vs. private persona, [>]
Simmel, Georg, [>]
Simpson, O. J., [>], [>], [>], [>]
Simpson, Wallis (Duchess of Windsor), [>], [>]–[>]
sin, gossip as, [>]–[>]
Sinatra, Frank, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Singer, Isaac Bashevis, [>]–[>], [>]
sins vs. virtue, as subject of gossip, [>]–[>]
62 Minutes (TV show), [>]
slander, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Smith, Liz, [>], [>]
Smith, Logan Pearsall, [>]
Smith, Sydney, [>]–[>]
Smith, Will, [>]–[>]
snobbery, name-dropping, [>], [>], [>]
Sobol, Louis, [>]
"social analysis," [>]–[>], [>]
"Social Comparison Account of Gossip, A" (Wert and Salovey), [>]
social networking, [>]
social norms
and access to gossip, [>]–[>]
and candor, [>]–[>]
and concepts of good taste, [>]
and gossip-worthy behaviors, [>]
impacts of gossip on, [>]–[>]
and increased tolerance, [>], [>]–[>]
social uses of gossip, [>]–[>]
Socrates, [>]
&nbs
p; Solove, Daniel J., [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Sontag, Susan, [>]–[>]
Spacks, Patricia Meyer, [>]–[>]
Spectator, [>], [>]
speculation, as invitation to gossip, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Sport magazine, [>]
Sporus, [>]–[>]
spreading gossip, [>]–[>]. See also audience for gossip
Springsteen, Bruce, [>]
"square" society, [>]
Stanley, Henry, [>]
status needs, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]. See also celebrities, celebrity
Steele, Richard, [>], [>]
Stein, Jean and Jules, [>]
Stendhal, [>], [>]–[>]
Stevenson, Adlai, [>], [>]
Stewart, Martha, [>]
Stork Club, [>]–[>]
Stuart, Lyle, [>]
subversive gossip, [>]–[>]
Suetonius, [>]–[>]
Sullivan, Andrew, [>]–[>]
Sunday Express, [>]
Sunday Times, [>]
Sunstein, Cass, [>]
support groups, [>]
Susann, Jacqueline, [>]
Sweet Smell of Success (movie), [>], [>]
Symposium, The (Plato), [>]
tabloid press, [>]
Talese, Gay, [>]–[>], [>]
"talk against others," [>]
Talk magazine, [>]–[>]
talk-radio shows, [>]
Talleyrand, [>]
Talmud, [>], [>], [>]
Tatler, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Taylor, Elizabeth, [>], [>]
technology, and expansion of audience for gossip, [>]
television
and celebrity, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
and public gossip, [>]
therapeutic gossip, [>]–[>]
Thrale, Hester, [>]
Thury, Marquis de, [>]
Thy Neighbor's Wife (Talese), [>]–[>]
Tiberius, [>]
Tilden, Bill, [>]
Time magazine, [>]
Times (London), [>]–[>]
Times Literary Supplement, [>]–[>]
Tina and Harry Come to America (Bachrach), [>]
TMZ (TV show), [>]–[>]
TMZ.com, [>]
TMZsports.com blog, [>]–[>]
Tóibín, Colm, [>]
Tolstoy, Leo, [>], [>]
Tonight Show, The, [>]–[>]
Toscanini, Arturo, [>]
Town Topics, [>]
Trevor-Roper, Hugh, [>]–[>], [>]
Trilling, Diana and Lionel, [>]–[>], [>]
Trilling, James, [>]–[>]
trivial gossip, [>], [>]–[>]
Trollope, Anthony, [>], [>]
Truman, Harry, [>]
truth
gossip as, [>], [>]
of gossip, determining, [>], [>]
and Internet gossip, [>]
and public vs. private self, [>]–[>], [>]
Turgenev, Ivan, [>]–[>]
Turner, Lana, [>]
Twitter, [>]–[>], [>]
Tynan, Kathleen and Kenneth, [>]
types of gossip, [>]–[>]
unedited information, [>]–[>], [>]
United States
celebrity culture, [>], [>]–[>]
changes in cultural norms, [>]
libel laws, [>]–[>]
privacy vs. publicity in, [>]
Updike, John, [>]
Ursins, Madame des, [>]
US Weekly, [>]
vanity, revealing, [>], [>]
Vanity Fair magazine
changes in content, tone, [>]
Dickinson interview, [>]
Miller story in, [>]–[>]
Newhouse purchase of, [>]
Vaudeville News, [>]
Vendôme, Duc de, [>]
Versailles palace, [>]–[>], [>]
victimhood. See revenge
Vidal, Gore, [>]–[>]
View, The (TV show), [>]
Villeroy, Duchess de, [>]
Virgin Soil (Turgenev), [>]–[>]
Voltaire, [>]
voyeurism, [>]
vulnerability, universality of, [>]–[>]
WABC, [>]–[>]
Waiting for Winter (O'Hara), [>]
Walker, Jimmy, [>], [>]
Wall Street Journal, [>]–[>]
Walters, Barbara
acting career, [>]
Audition, [>]–[>]
childhood and education, [>]–[>]
daughter, [>]–[>]
interviews conducted by, [>], [>]–[>]
marriages and divorces, [>]
popularity/celebrity, [>]–[>], [>]
self-image, [>]–[>]
skills, [>]–[>]
The View, [>]
Walters, Jackie, [>]
Walters, Lou, [>]
"Walter Winchells of Cyberspace, The" (Williams), [>]–[>]
War and Peace (Tolstoy), [>]
Warren, Samuel D., [>]
Washington, George, [>]–[>]
Washingtonienne (Cutler), [>]
Washington Post, [>]–[>]
Watercooler Effect, The (DiFonzo), [>]
Waugh, Auberon, [>]
Waugh, Evelyn, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Webb, Clifton, [>]
websites, gossip-focused, [>]
Weidenfeld, George, [>]
Weiner, Jack, [>]
Weinschel. See Winchell, Walter
Weinschel, Chaim, [>]
Weinstein, Harvey, [>]–[>]
Welles, Orson, [>]
Welles, Sumner, [>]
Wert, Sarah R., [>]–[>]
Westacott, Emrys, [>]
Wharton, Edith, [>]
What I Saw at the Fair (Birstein), [>]
White, Edmund, [>]–[>]
Wikipedia, [>]
Wilde, Oscar
The Importance of Being Earnest, [>]
on journalism, [>], [>]
on scandal, [>]
wittiness, [>]
Wilkes, Roger, [>], [>], [>]
Will, George F., [>]
Williams, Alex ("The Walter Winchells of Cyberspace"), [>]–[>]
Williams, Tennessee, [>], [>], [>]
Wilson, David Sloan, [>]
Wilson, Earl, [>], [>]
Wilson, Woodrow, [>]
Winchell, George, [>]
Winchell, Jacob, [>]
Winchell, Walda, [>]
Winchell, Walter
and blind item, [>]
childhood and ambitions, [>]–[>]
final years, [>]–[>]
income and wealth, [>]
influence wielded by, [>]
language developed by, [>]
legacy, [>]–[>]
mob connections, [>]
at New York Mirror, [>]
personality, [>]–[>]
popularity/celebrity, [>]–[>]
power, [>]–[>]
as reporter, [>]
response to criticism, [>]
self-view, [>