Good Gossip Never Gets Old
Star-studier Anne Helen Petersen on old-school scandal
By Kimberley Jones, 12:57PM, Wed. Jun. 15, 2011
Like the little fizzing thrill that accompanies a good gossip fix, but not the dirty feeling after? Austin's Anne Helen Petersen gives great gossip – witty, informed, yet informal – in a new-ish series called Scandals of Classic Hollywood at the Hairpin.
"Sure, it was smoke and mirrors, and if you pay me $10, I’ll write you a solid Marxist critique of Hollywood Stars as New Opiate of the Masses," Petersen writes in her dish on Clark Gable, posted this week.
Petersen has already been running critical – but totally readable! – commentary over on her own site, Celebrity Gossip, Academic Style, which the Chronicle profiled back in October, but the Scandals series is great all-access writing to old-school stars like Robert Mitchum, Ingrid Bergman, and Clara Bow. Steamy stuff, but, hey – it's history.
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