Liz Smith

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Mary Elizabeth Smith (February 2, 1923 – November 12, 2017) was an American gossip columnist.

"The Grand Dame of Dish" was her nicknamed "The Grand Dame of Dish" by the time.

She wrote columns for the New York Daily News, The Washington Post, and Cosmopolitan during her career.

Roger Ailes was exclusively employed with Fox Broadcasting Company.

Smith worked with Newsday from 1995 to 2005.

Early life

Smith was born in Fort Worth, Texas, on February 2, 1923. She graduated from the University of Texas with a degree in journalism in 1949 and spent time with The Daily Texan and The Texas Ranger.

Personal life

In 1945, Smith married World War II bombardier George Edward Beeman, a college sweetheart. She soon returned him to school in Texas, where her papers and memorabilia are kept in the Dolph Briscoe Center, and the couple divorced two years later. Fred Lister married her in 1957; the couple divorced in 1962.

In her memoirs, Smith admitted her bisexuality (or as she referred to it, "gender neutrality") but in the December 5, 2000 issue of The Advocate, she dug deeper and confided in editor-in-chief Judy Wieder that it was not in her nature to be a role model in the LGBT movement. "I think my experiences with women were always more enjoyable and secure [than with men], she said. And a lot of my personal encounters with men were more flirtatious and adversarial. I just never thought I was wife material. I've always thought that I was a good girlfriend." Iris Love, the archaeologist who began in the late 1970s, worked with Smith for 15 years.

After leaving Texas, Smith was a good friend of Texas Governor Ann Richards and helped her to acculturate to New York City society. Smith was also a good friend of Richards. Molly Ivins, a Texas pundit and writer, was also a mentor of Richards.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg donated millions of dollars to charities, $6 million for Literacy Partners, millions for AMFAR, the New York Landmarks Conservancy, PAL, and the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City under Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

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Career

Smith later moved to New York City, where she served as a codereader, proofreader, and reporter before emerging as a news producer for Mike Wallace at CBS Radio. She spent five years as a news producer for NBC-TV. Allen Funt on Candid Camera previously worked.

Smith worked as a ghostwriter for the "Cholly Knickerbocker" gossip column syndicated in Hearst newspapers in the late 1950s. She began working with Helen Gurley Brown as the entertainment editor for the American version of Cosmopolitan in the early 1960s, later serving as Sports Illustrated's entertainment editor as well.

Smith's self-titled gossip column for the New York Daily News began on February 16, 1976. During a 1978 New York City newspaper strike, her Daily News editors begged her to appear on WNBC-TV's Live at Five, and she remained with the program for eleven years. Smith made her a regular fixture on the Manhattan social scene and fueled her column, which had, by then, been syndicated to nearly seventy newspapers. In 1985, she was nominated for her coverage of Live at Five for WNBC.

Smith was hired by Fox Broadcasting Company CEO Barry Diller and Rupert Murdoch to produce a talk show, with Roger Ailes as her producer.

Smith is said to have been the highest-paid print journalist in the United States. Smith moved her column to New York Newsday in 1991, immediately after her exclusive interviews with Ivana Trump at the time of her separation from real estate entrepreneur Donald Trump, and then continued in both the Long Island Newsday and the New York Post simultaneously. She worked with Fox News for seven years and was the senior editor on Fox & Friends. She was the first columnist to have her column published in three major New York City newspapers at the same time.

Smith resigned from Newsday in April 2005 after a labor union. Smith's column was officially decommissioned after months of controversies with her counsel David Blasband and Newsday's management. Smith's case was settled out of court, but the New York Post and the Staten Island Advance continued.

The Post announced on February 24, 2009, that as a cost-cutting measure, the paper will no longer run Smith's column beginning February 26, 2009.

Smith, alongside Lesley Stahl, Mary Wells Lawrence, and Joni Evans, was a founding member of wowow.com, a website for women to explore culture, politics, and gossip.

Smith was named The New Jewish Home's Eight Over Eighty Gala 2016 honoree.

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