When Rona was gossip queen

Richard Horgan at FilmStew tracks down Rona Barrett, once a fixture on Los Angeles television, now a lavender farmer near Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch in the Santa Ynez area. When she began breaking Hollywood news for Channel 7 here in the 1960s, celebrity dish was unusual on TV.

Says Barrett:

“For better or worse, the hunger and thirst for this kind of information doesn’t look like it’s ready to abate...And maybe it never will, since there are three driving things that seem to make the world go around: power, sex and money, not necessarily in that order."