Who is Liz Smith?
Her full name is Mary Elizabeth Smith and she is an American gossip columnist. She is known popularly as "The Great Dame of Dish."
There is no greater need in society than that of gossip. It is the principal means of passing the time, which is one of the first necessities of life. Poet Giacomo Leopardi, quote starting Liz Smith’s first column, Feb. 16, 1976. Liz Smith hasn’t even arrived yet at Le Cirque Manhattan’s preeminent power-lunch restaurant for Armani-suited, table-hopping, air-kissing celebs and socialites yet Barbara Walters and gossip columnist Cindy Adams can already be overheard talking about her. Deep in conversation, their perfectly coiffed do’s seemingly locked together, they whisper such words as ”Fox…Live at Five…Personalities” referring to the news-making TV deal Liz has pulled off. Suddenly heads swivel toward the front door as Smith bursts into the room. This isn’t hyperbole. She’s decked in a bright yellow blazer, black pants, and yellow lizard cowboy boots a big, happy bumblebee in Le Cirque’s garden of hothouse flowers. ”Hey Liz!” yells Walters from a table away. ”We were just tal
