Tina Brown's 'The Vanity Fair Diaries' dishes on Liz Smith
Tina Brown
Former Vanity Fair editor Tina Brown couldn’t please everyone. In her timely new book  “The Vanity Fair Diaries ” she recalls a run-in with gossip legend Liz Smith  who died over the weekend at 94.
According to  Brown   Smith’s girlfriend Iris Love submitted a story about her trip up the Nile to Vanity Fair in 1985  shortly after  Brown  had started her new job.
“Trouble is  picture’s great  copy not  ” Brown  recalled. According to  Brown   31 at the time  she decided to run the piece anyway  but only after a heavy edit that she knew would not go over well with Smith. As expected  Smith “got on the horn to give me the full Texan bawl-out.”
In her new book  Tina Brown recounts a run-in with the late gossip great Liz Smith  seen here at an event in March. (Gary Gershoff/WireImage)
[TGT] please everyone. In [TGT] timely new book  “The Vanity Fair Diaries ” [TGT] recalls a run-in with gossip legend Liz Smith  who died over the weekend at 94.
According to  Brown   Smith’s girlfriend Iris Love submitted a story about [TGT] trip up the Nile to Vanity Fair in 1985  shortly after  Brown  had started her new job.
“Trouble is  picture’s great  copy not  ” Brown  recalled. According to  Brown   31 at the time  she decided to run the piece anyway  but only after a heavy edit that she knew would not go over well with Smith. As expected  Smith “got on the horn to give me the full Texan bawl-out.”
In her new book  Tina Brown recounts a run-in with the late gossip great Liz Smith  seen here at an event in March. (Gary Gershoff/WireImage)