“YOU know how they put the older Eskimos on the ice floe?” says gossip columnist Joanna Molloy. This is what Joanna said to the Times’ Jacob Bernstein the other day. She was talking about being fired by a tabloid newspaper. (And I’m thinking maybe the way things are going that the ice floe idea isn’t half bad.) Joanna and husband George Rush have written gossip for the N.Y. Daily News and the N.Y. Post (and so have I) and now there’s the advent of their retirement from gossip and a book titled “Scandal: A Manual.” They write me personally to ask whether I think they need to be spanked? Having read their history of days we all lived through already, I’d say I don’t care what they wrote about my so-called ‘private life.’ And naturally, I remember a lot of our history quite differently. It is always fascinating to see how other people view the times you also have lived through. But I can hardly believe that our mutual then boss, wealthy publisher Mort Zuckerman, ever asked them to lay off of my “sins.” He’d never even asked me about such things and I knew him real well and all along, my life was about as “private” as a corner newsstand. If that’s the most scandalous thing in their book, well, Lord help us. It was pedestrian in extreme and Mr. Zuckerman’s own private life was always so much more interesting and romantic than mine. (And still is!) I doubt he thought about me one way or other. I don’t believe people can really be shocked now as they maybe were back then. I wrote my own memoir in 2000 and sat through tough questions from a man I loved on “60 Minutes.” Mike Wallace and I had more fun together finding my star on the Austin, Texas “Walk of Fame,” right next to Admiral Chester Nimitz. “Look at that, Lizard ... you’re famous!” exclaimed Mike. Now, if Rush and Malloy are suggesting I might be interested in administering them a spanking ... well, that might be interesting and worth considering. I am always up for new experiences.
Posted on: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 15:44:01 +0000
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