Movie Info

In the 1950s, gossip columnist and radio show personality Walter Winchell (Stanley Tucci) forged a career digging up celebrity dirt. Enticed by the pr...(read more...) ivate lives of public figures, the nation depended upon Winchell -- and his woeful sidekick and ghostwriter, Herman Klurfeld (Paul Giamatti) -- to spill the latest scoop. This HBO biopic proves that no scandal is ever too big or too small for America's insatiable appetite for shameful secrets.

Director: Paul Mazursky

MPAA: R

Release Date: Jun 01, 1999

Cast: Christopher Plummer, Frank Medrano, Glenne Headly, Kevin Tighe, Megan Mullally, Paul Giamatti, Paula Cale, Stanley Tucci, Vic Polizos, Xander Berkeley