San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen wrote in November 1978, " Just when you think tastelessness has reached its nadir, along comes a punk rock group called The Dead Kennedys, which will play at Mabuhay Gardens on Nov. 22, the 15th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination.

Opened by Charlton Heston and introduced by Frank Sinatra, the ceremony was attended by so many Hollywood stars — said to be more than for any event in history — that one columnist wrote at the time that a bomb in the dining room would have brought about the end of the movie industry.

A local gossip columnist, who wrote under the name Polly Peachtree, described Mitchell's love life in a 1922 column:

In response to this, the columnist Marc Cassivi of La Presse wrote that " there was only one closet a Quebec artist could never exit and that was the federalist one.

" Ring Lardner thought of himself as primarily a sports columnist whose stuff wasn't destined to last, and he held to that absurd belief even after his first masterpiece, You Know Me Al, was published in 1916 and earned the awed appreciation of Virginia Woolf, among other very serious, unfunny people ", wrote Andrew Ferguson, who named it, in a Wall Street Journal article, one of the top five pieces of American humor writing.

In 1981, the humorous columnist Art Buchwald wrote a piece entitled, " Secular Humanists: Threat or Menace?

" He ruined Meigs because he wanted to, because he could ," Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass wrote of Daley.

An article quoted Jonathan Mark, a columnist for The Jewish Week, who wrote, " Can no one else speak of slavery, gas, trains, camps?

A few days after Fitzgerald's death, New York Times columnist Frank Rich wrote that in the Songbook series Fitzgerald " performed a cultural transaction as extraordinary as Elvis's contemporaneous integration of white and African-American soul.

" In response to Vonnegut and Truss, Ben MacIntyre, columnist in The Times ( London ), wrote: " Americans have long regarded the semi-colon with suspicion, as a genteel, self-conscious, neither-one-thing-nor-the other sort of punctuation mark, with neither the butchness of a full colon nor the flighty promiscuity of the comma.

On December 7, 1975, Kirkpatrick announced in a column on the editorial page that Rick Soll, a " young and talented columnist " for the paper whose work had " won a following among many Tribune readers over the last two years " resigned from the paper after acknowledging that a column he wrote that appeared on November 23, 1975, contained verbatim passages that another columnist wrote in 1967 and later published in a collection.

On September 15, 2002, Lipinski wrote a terse, page-one note informing readers that the paper's longtime columnist, Bob Greene, resigned effective immediately after acknowledging " engaging in inappropriate sexual conduct some years ago with a girl in her late teens whom he met in connection with his newspaper column.

The magazine was founded by American journalist Louis Rossetto and his partner Jane Metcalfe and Ian Charles Stewart in 1993 with initial backing from software entrepreneur Charlie Jackson and eclectic academic Nicholas Negroponte of the MIT Media Lab, who was a regular columnist for six years, through 1998 and wrote the book Being Digital.

* William Veeck, Sr., a sports columnist who was hired as team vice-president by the Chicago Cubs ' William Wrigley Jr. after a series he wrote criticizing the team.

* Michael Wharton ( 1913 – 2006 ), newspaper columnist who wrote under the pseudonym Peter Simple

Louella Parsons, an American gossip columnist, wrote about Oscar night, February 29, 1940:

In the March 17, 2003 edition of Sports Illustrated, columnist Frank Deford wrote an article entitled " The Rise and Fall of Kirby Puckett ", that documented Puckett's alleged indiscretions and attempted to contrast his private image with the much-revered public image he had previously maintained.

The columnist John Keasler, who wrote 7, 000 columns over 30 years for The Miami News, hailed from Plant City.

Bexley has been the home of many prominent citizens, including the former governor of Ohio, Ted Strickland, U. S. Senator George Voinovich, Bob Greene -- the former Chicago Tribune columnist who wrote Be True to Your School, children's author R. L. Stine, cartoonist Paul Palnik, and Limited Brands founder Leslie Wexner.

In February 2006, Star media columnist Antonia Zerbisias wrote on her blog: " we all have the Atkinson Principles — and its multi-culti values — tattooed on our butts.

Boston Globe architecture columnist Robert Campbell wrote a glowing appraisal of the building on April 25, 2004.

New York Times columnist Edward VanNess wrote, " Louis ... is a boon to boxing.

Wrote one Plain Dealer columnist, Franklin Lewis: " He has been a controversial athlete.

Shortly after the Indians had honored Doby by naming a nearby street after him, The Plain Dealer columnist Bill Livingston wrote, " The Larry Doby way of pioneering was the same as the Jackie Robinson way in the National League, only Doby's debut occurred six short weeks later and with almost no advance preparation by Doby or the Indians.

In 1994, Terry Pluto, who covered the Indians for The Plain Dealer in the 1980s and became the top sports columnist for the Akron Beacon Journal ( but returned to The Plain Dealer in 2007 ), published The Curse of Rocky Colavito, a book that tried to explain why the Indians had not come within even 11 games of first place since 1959.

Quinn would later lament that her dad and stepmom, financial columnist Jane Bryant Quinn, spent good money for Martha to spin Peter, Paul, and Mary vinyl as the host of " Just Plain Folk.

Another Old Brooklyn native, the late Mary Strassmeyer, was the gossip columnist for the Cleveland News and The Plain Dealer.

* Steve Buckley is a longtime sports columnist and frequent co-host on WEEI.

Sciacca is a former political reporter and columnist who is a regular panelist on " Beat the Press " on the WGBH TV show Greater Boston, which is hosted by Emily Rooney.

The nature of the event has also been met with criticism outside of Quebec, such as that given by Ottawa Citizen columnist David Warren, who said in 2007: " The Canada of the government-funded paper flag-waving and painted faces — the ' new ' Canada that is celebrated each year on what is now called ' Canada Day '— has nothing controversially Canadian about it.

The first episode was aired on 9 December 1960 and was not initially a critical success ; Daily Mirror columnist Ken Iriwin claimed the series would only last three weeks.

He was the Hearst newspapers ' baseball columnist for many years, beginning in 1911, and his knack for spotting the eccentric and the unusual, on the field or in the stands, is credited with revolutionizing the way baseball was covered.

Mediaite columnist Paul Levinson noted that " The Monkees were the first example of something created in a medium – in this case, a rock group on television – that jumped off the screen to have big impact in the real world.

In 1993, USA Today included a weekly columnist on fantasy baseball, John Hunt, and he became perhaps the most visible writer in the industry before the rise of the Internet.

In May 2010, Lineker resigned from his role as columnist for The Mail on Sunday in protest over the sting operation against Lord Triesman that jeopardised England ’ s bid to host the 2018 World Cup.

Lord Aberdeen died at Argyll House, St. James's, London, on 14 December 1860, and was buried in the family vault at Stanmore. In 1994 novelist, columnist and politician Ferdinand Mount used George Gordon's life as the basis for a historical novel – Umbrella.

Frank Costello helped encourage this view by feeding Hoover, " an inveterate horseplayer " known to send Special Agents to place $ 100 bets for him, tips on sure winners through their mutual friend, gossip columnist Walter Winchell.

Voight's comments drew harsh criticism from The Dallas Morning News columnist Rod Dreher, whose article appeared in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune on September 16, 2009.

Invented by a poet and a local newspaper columnist Eric Kosciuszko in the 1920s, it has since been adopted by state and local government as well as the residents, and has taken on the sense of a general spring celebration.

Eichenwald's account of Whitacre has been called into question by the syndicated columnist Alan Guebert, following the disclosure in August 2007 that Eichenwald paid his sources on another story.

His second wife is Judith Anne Shulevitz, who was a columnist for Slate and The New York Times Book Review ; married on November 7, 1999, they have a son and a daughter.

Beginning with a performance emceed by humor columnist Bugs Baer at Halloran Hospital on Staten Island, these shows were produced and directed by Mendez.

Ringgold Wilmer Lardner ( March 6, 1885 – September 25, 1933 ) was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical takes on the sports world, marriage, and the theatre.

* Christina Kahrl: Co-founder of Baseball Prospectus and current ESPN columnist, Kahrl puts an emphasis on advanced baseball analytics.

** Hedda Hopper's Hollywood debuts on radio with Hollywood gossip columnist Hedda Hopper as host ( the show runs until 1951, making Hopper a powerful figure in the Hollywood elite ).

* In the article " South Park's " Investing Lesson, The Motley Fool columnist " Fool on the Hill " uses the Underpants Gnomes to illustrate the fallacy of focusing on goals without a clear implementation strategy.

" Eventually the story of Kuhl's slapping was broken in the U. S. after newspaper columnist Drew Pearson revealed it on his November 21 radio program.

Reinaldo de Azevedo, columnist of the right-wingVeja mazagine, Brazil's most read weekly publication, called the GGB's methodology " unscientific " based on the above objection: that they make no distinction between murders motivated by bias and those that were not.

When much younger, he was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Canadian House of Commons, an occasional newspaper columnist, and a writer on public affairs.