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George Christy, Veteran Hollywood Columnist, Dies at 93

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George Christy, a gossip and party columnist who wrote forThe Hollywood Reporterfor more than 26 years before leaving amid controversy in 2001, has died.

He was 93. Christy died Tuesday night of heart failure at Providence Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, his friend, producer-director Barry Avrich, said. "George Christy was a combination of Louella Parsons, Hedda Hopper and Walter Winchell in the old Hollywood style of reporting," Avrich noted. "The only difference that distinguished George from his predecessors was that while he looked for scoops, he never was interested in scandal or salacious exposés." Most recently, Christy wrote a column for theBeverly Hills Courier, a free weekly newspaper.

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