The best news about Hedda Hopper is that few remember her. Hedda was a journalist (of sorts), who famously wore exotic hats and devoted herself to destroying the careers of anyone she identified ...

The latest season of You Must Remember This, the hit podcast about behind-the-scenes Hollywood, looks at the women who practically invented the gossip column.

Then, too, I half expected the ghost of Hedda Hopper to come at me with a hatpin. Instead I was greeted by Hedda’s spiritual [as it were] successor, Joyce Haber, Hollywood’s new No. 1 voyeur.

Chirped Hopper in her column, “It’s a good publicity skunk, and beautifully behaved.” By the mid-’60s, Hopper’s power was waning. But she didn’t stick around to become a relic.

A column I wrote a year ago about the power of legendary gossip columnist Hedda “the Hat” Hopper captured the attention of Marti Ross of St. John. I had published this column just prior to the ...

Long before The Post launched its world-famous Page Six, these two gossip mavens mastered the art “dish.” We all love to read about our favorite stars – especially when they do so… ...

Anyone who says society was milder back in the old days doesn't remember Hedda Hopper. When The L.A. Times launched the infamous gossip column "Hedda Hopper's Hollywood" in 1938, its writer ...

Hedda Hopper is the handsome, headlong gossip whose syndicated column, usually titled “Hollywood,” written in prose of an inspired spasticity, daily gives her 22,800,000 readers the illusion ...

The best news about Hedda Hopper is that few remember her. Hedda was a journalist (of sorts), ... and Hopper kept hammering at the studios in her columns and on radio and TV.