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San Jose Mercury News, Calif., Audio Book Column.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, November, 2000 by Muller, Carol Doup
Nov. 3--MEMOIR IS A NATURAL GRABBER: Perhaps you think you've learned all you want to know about Liz Smith's memoir in the publicity about "Natural Blonde." (To recap the main scoop: There was some truth to Frank Sinatra's snarling that Smith "liked Debbie Reynolds better than Burt Reynolds." Smith's main gal-pal -- and that's the kind of salacious word Smith would avoid -- has been anthropologist Iris Love.)
Nope, I say, you really want to hear this story in her own drawl.
Smith, possibly the highest-paid print journalist in the world, has been a Manhattan (and Hamptons) fixture for decades. She's hardly ever met a star she didn't like, and so the book is juiciest when she cuts loose on the ones she didn't: Phil Silvers, Alan Funt, Lee Radziwill. The...
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