Liz Smith Interviewer Mangles 'Money Quote'
Maer Roshan's lead-off THR recollections are not quite on the money.
At the beginning of this week’s Hollywood Reporter Q&A with 92-year-old gossip dynamo Liz Smith, interviewer Maer Roshan references a previous conversation he had with the columnist for a cover story in the final June 26, 1991 issue of weekly newspaper OutWeek.
Here’s how Roshan frames it, with his second THR question:
I believe the money quote was, “Who am I, the great lesbian of the Western world? They want me to go out, and I want them to go in!”
In fact, it was not Smith who made that “great” reference but rather a passer-by.
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