Thorton's career is on the line when a gossip columnist gets wind that she's having an affair with a magazine writer assigned to cover the campaign.

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Urbane and urban: "Hitch" is very much a tale of Manhattan -- lower Manhattan, where Ms. Mendes's Sara works as a gossip columnist for an upmarket downtown tabloid, and farther-flung parts of the island, where Hitch counsels gauche, lovelorn men in the art of approaching and attracting the women of their dreams.

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The excellent supporting cast includes Brenda Wehle, a malevolent delight as scandal-sniffing gossip columnist Patty Benedict.

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"She was grave in her humor, which made it deadly, unexpected, truly funny and dauntingly intelligent, " wrote the gossip columnist Liz Smith, a longtime friend, in an online remembrance.

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Gossip columnist Cindy Adams, shopping her new book, Living a Dog's Life, on NBC's Today Show, gave me a hunch.

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