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Please inform the ‘Elsbeth’ writers of my undeserved kindnesses

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They’re dead set on the past

I am not one to complain. I read letters addressed to me as “Dear Stupid.” But comes now CBS-TV’s successful TV series “Elsbeth.” Central in it is a snotty smarmy gossip columnist — admittedly based on me.

Listen, I was good to my mother, good to my grandmother, good to my husband, good to my dog — even good to my colorist (like very good). Please inform your writers of my undeserved kindnesses.

People magazine’s current issue goes heavy on bye-bye. It’s Windsors and Kennedys. Full color pages. Photos of Princess Diana. All in white. Blond hair flowing. Wearing her crown. She’s gone. Then, matching page, full color photo of Carolyn Bessette Kennedy. All in white. Blond hair flowing. Also gone. To make it neat they throw in pictures of Queen Elizabeth II — also no longer around.

Also something somewhere someplace somehow on Willem de Kooning whom — if I’m correct, and perish the evil thought that maybe I’m not — only a few mentioned over their cream-cheesed........

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