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Wikipedia Summary for Walter Winchell
Walter Winchell (April 7, 1897 – February 20, 1972) was a syndicated American newspaper gossip columnist and radio news commentator. Originally a vaudeville performer, Winchell began his newspaper career as a Broadway reporter, critic and columnist for New York tabloids. He rose to national celebrity in the 1930s with Hearst newspaper chain syndication and a popular radio program. He was known for an innovative style of gossipy staccato news briefs, jokes and Jazz Age slang. Biographer Neal Gabler credited his popularity and influence meant “He turned journalism into a form of entertainment.”He uncovered both hard news and embarrassing stories about famous people by exploiting his exceptionally wide circle of contacts, first in the entertainment world and the Prohibition era underworld, then in law enforcement and politics. He was known for trading gossip, sometimes in return for his silence. His outspoken style made him both feared and admired. Novels and movies were based on his wisecracking gossip columnist persona, as early as the play and film Blessed Event in 1932. As World War II approached in the 1930s, he attacked the appeasers of Nazism, then in the 1950s he aligned with Joseph McCarthy in his campaign against communists. He damaged the reputations of Charles Lindbergh and Josephine Baker as well as other individuals who had earned his enmity. However, the McCarthy connection in time made him unfashionable, and his style did not adapt well to television news.
He did return to television in 1959 as narrator of the 1920s-set crime drama series The Untouchables. Over the years he appeared in more than two dozen films and television productions as an actor, sometimes playing himself.
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world
walks out.
The way to become famous fast is to throw a brick at someone who is famous.
Relationships are like crystals, you don't realize how much you love it until it breaks.
California is a place where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.
He (Alexander Woollcott) always praises the first production of each season, being reluctant to stone the first cast.
True friends walks in when the rest of the world has walked out.
A certain columnist has been banned from all Shubert openings. Now he can wait three days and go to their closings.
The Chicago mobs... They practiced their own perverted form of survival of the fittest. Where the strong clawed their way to the top of a criminal empire. And the weak died in a hail of machine gun bullets.
Money sometimes makes fools of important persons, but it may also make important persons of fools.
Hell hath no fury like a woman cheated out of a million dollars.
It's a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do.
The reason they're called the opposite sex is because every time you think you have your wife fooled -- it's just the opposite!
Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. America from border to border and coast to coast and all the ships at sea. Let's go to press.
I never lost a friend I wanted to keep.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.
The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.
Nothing recedes like success.
Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.
Broadway is a main artery of New York life -- the hardened artery.
She's been on more laps than a napkin.
I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.
Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.
A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.
The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother -- and the public.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people.
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline.
An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.
Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.