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Beware of This Woman: Emily Smith
This write-up on Page Six's new honcho delivers an old-fashioned thrill: does New York City again have a chief gossip hustler that can inspire fear? It's been a while! So look out for tiny blonde women with English accents. (Not that you weren't already afraid of such.) Ms. Emily Smith is a five-footer, surely appealing to men, who are always stupid about talking to women in the first place, and is also apparently incredibly lethal. She actually might make Page Six fearsome again.
Today, in WASP eyes that can slice thee in half.
Did she just dump a body into the icy depths?
I'm getting a very Let The Right One In vibe here.
Do you think "[f]ormer Daily News gossip columnist Lloyd Grove, who described himself, at 6-foot-3, as 'large and loudish,'" really said "loudish"?
Or did he maybe say "large and loutish" and this Zeke Turner (whoever and/or whatever that is) just needs a hearing aid and/or a dictionary?
Hmm, in Lloyd's case, it could have been either! I would suspect loutish too.
Given the harried state of the copy desk over there, it's a tribute to the delightful Zeke Turner that this article is so well done.
Your characterization of Mr. Turner as "delightful" is, for me, a good lesson in tolerance and open-mindedness.
Being from America's Heartland, I've met my share of men named Zeke; maybe viewing the world through that not-so-flattering-to-the-other-Zekes-of-the-world filter perhaps led me perhaps to be overly critical and dismissive.
The More You Knowâ„¢, etc.
"so well done"?? How about the reference to "Mr. Piers"?? Shouldn't that be "Mr. Morgan"??
To be fair, growing up here in the square states, one of the Zekes I knew did speak with a rather HopSingian delivery. I could totally see him reverently referring to Piers Morgan as "Mr. Piers."
Having not met Zeke Turner, however, I can't say whether he would use intentionally such a deferential honorific…
I found the reference to Kelsey "Grammar" to be utterly charming.
Was going to write something but now that I've clicked through… can't…remember…what…itwas
just the sound of a swirling ice wind, then the vertigo
So she got into a Kim Kardasian party and a Chris Brown party, both of which were promoting products. Sounds to me like the gossip will be coming straight from publicist flacks. I miss the days when gossip was overheard from a table away at 21 or Michael's or from the phone call of a well-heeled, revenge-seeking former debutante. This woman looks to be yet another notch in Howard Rubenstein's Rolodex.
Or, more briefly: Gossip columnists used to be amazing journalists.
YES! also
"surely appealing to (some) men" Choire, she looks like the type you get stuck running the cock-block block on when your boy sees the really sexy one first. *shivers* at the conversations one might have to have with her. For me I think it's the look in her eyes, like there's something clearly intelligent but woefully standard/status quo happening in there at the same time… since, you know, judging books by covers is fun and were talking about a gossip maven or whatever.
Elf boots are back!
There won't even be footprints in the snow when she's done with you guys.