1.   A combination of gossip monger and power broker, Winchell was a complicated figure brought to uncomfortable life in this biography, which originally aired on HBO.

2.   But theirs is no ordinary sibling rivalry, of interest merely to their family and to gossip mongers.

3.   Freedman has made no attempt to provide a new perspective to freshen the comedy, a frothy satire about the reputation-savaging gossip mongers of fashionable society.

4.   In the interest of baseball junkies and gossip mongers everywhere, we will offer up the hottest rumors of players available and where they might wind up.

5.   Indeed, his role model was Walter Winchell, the legendary gossip monger, but with the malice shorn off.

6.   While such matters may be of passing interest to literary gossip mongers, they are not transformed, in this case, into plausible or compelling fiction.