Walter Winchell

On these shores however, reviewers such as Walter Winchell said the play was "worth seeing, worth hearing, and worth remembering ... it will wring your heart and eyes dry ... bring at least eleven handkerchiefs."

Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy Fern Sidman 2008

On these shores however, reviewers such as Walter Winchell said the play was

Right Truth 2008

A time capsule from the pioneer days of television, when the cameras and sets looked Soviet-bulky and the production values were strictly Salvation Army, A Face in the Crowd grits with a documentary charm, presenting cameo appearances by then familiar granite heads such as Walter Winchell, John Cameron Swayze, and Mike Wallace (who has outlived everybody), postcard snaps of Norman Rockwell small-town Americana, and anxious political palaver whose sinister tone seems drawn from the demagogic specter of Red-baiting senator Joe McCarthy, who died the year A Face in the Crowd was released but whose influence lingers today, an enduring toxin in the bloodstream.

An Unforgettable Face Wolcott, James 2007

A time capsule from the pioneer days of television, when the cameras and sets looked Soviet-bulky and the production values were strictly Salvation Army, A Face in the Crowd grits with a documentary charm, presenting cameo appearances by then familiar granite heads such as Walter Winchell, John Cameron Swayze, and Mike Wallace (who has outlived everybody), postcard snaps of Norman Rockwell small-town Americana, and anxious political palaver whose sinister tone seems drawn from the demagogic specter of Red-baiting senator Joe McCarthy, who died the year A Face in the Crowd was released but whose influence lingers today, an enduring toxin in the bloodstream.

An Unforgettable Face Wolcott, James 2007

He recently toured with a new book, called "How I Got This Way," in which he recalls brushes with the likes of Joe DiMaggio, Walter Winchell and Jack Nicholson.

Regis Is Still Holding Court Jason Gay 2012

Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis had the lead roles, as gossip columnist J.J. Hunsecker based on notorious New York Daily Mirror columnist Walter Winchell and press agent Sidney Falco, respectively.

The Drummer Stays in the Picture Steve Dollar 2011

Modelled on true-life columnist Walter Winchell, Hunsecker possesses "the scruples of a guinea pig and the morals of a gangster".

Culture Flash: dodgy hacks 2011

He makes Walter Winchell, the mid-century columnist, broadcaster and Madame Defarge of the Stork Club into one of founding figures of modern American gossip.

Boulevardier's Delight Henry Allen 2011

In this biography of the newspaper columnist whose work in the late 1930s, in print and on the radio, was said to regularly reach two out of every three adult Americans, Neal Gabler treats Walter Winchell with a scrupulous devotion to accuracy and a constant quest for fairness that Winchell himself often declined to offer the people he covered.

Five Best: Ink-Stained Riches Bob Greene 2011

He's afraid he'll wake up one day and discover he's not Walter Winchell.

Five Best: Ink-Stained Riches Bob Greene 2011