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A Career in Tabloids, Thanks to Elizabeth Taylor. She filled my childhood. In the late 1960s and ’70s, my mother kept a never-ending supply of every pulp movie star magazine and gossip tabloid imaginable on our coffee table in Levittown, Pa. — and she consumed all of them with gusto. Liz and Dick! Liz and Eddie! Liz’s continued feud with Debbie! My mother, Naomi Millstein Levine, was the same age as Ms. Although their lives were a world apart, Mom lived and died through every romantic heartbreak, every hospital visit of her beloved Liz. And when I became the Hollywood bureau chief for Star magazine in the late ’80s, I made my mother proud by being the one to report Ms.

Two decades ago, before the days of Web sites like TMZ and RadarOnline, and packs of paparazzi, Hollywood was a much more intimate town. At least, we did until her bizarre eighth wedding, in 1991, to a construction worker named Larry Fortensky. We even built a makeshift radio tower for our then brand-new “cellular phone.” But I didn’t call. Lingle - Login. Cercle - Le Figaro in English - articles. Français | Le meilleur de la presse européenne.

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