Hedda Hopper is much better known in the U.S., as her name was practically synonymous with 'gossip columnist' for decades (she even does a cameo as herself in the 1950 movie SUNSET BLVD).
And I had to throw in another fictional purveyor of scandal and ruination so Milverton wouldn't be lonely! In A SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL Lady Sneerwell's very first speech talks of how her own reputation was ruined as a young woman by gossip, so she spends her life inflicting that ruination on others.
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Date: 2015-09-20 04:34 pm (UTC)And I had to throw in another fictional purveyor of scandal and ruination so Milverton wouldn't be lonely! In A SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL Lady Sneerwell's very first speech talks of how her own reputation was ruined as a young woman by gossip, so she spends her life inflicting that ruination on others.