Liz is definitely an icon and legend, but her time has passed. With each passing year her "gossip" gets less and less revelant and the people she is speaking about and getting her information from are mostly obscure. When her column starts, "I was out to lunch with Kathie Lee Gifford..." you know you are in trouble. She just cant compete with all the celeb information that floods the media now.
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello