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She is known for ending her columns with the catch phrase: "''Only in New York, kids, only in New York''."<ref>{{Cite web|last=Stein|first=Sadie|date=2019-12-05|title=Cindy Adams, New York's Queen of Gossip, Keeps Everyone's Secrets|url=https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/a29875683/cindy-adams-new-york-post-queen-of-gossip/|access-date=2021-01-04|website=Town & Country|language=en-US}}</ref>
She is known for ending her columns with the catch phrase: "''Only in New York, kids, only in New York''."<ref>{{Cite web|last=Stein|first=Sadie|date=2019-12-05|title=Cindy Adams, New York's Queen of Gossip, Keeps Everyone's Secrets|url=https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/a29875683/cindy-adams-new-york-post-queen-of-gossip/|access-date=2021-01-04|website=Town & Country|language=en-US}}</ref>


In 2003, Cindy Heller Adams authored a [[St. Martin's Publishing Group|St Martin's Publishing Group]] publication titled ''The gift of Jazzy,'' a [[memoir]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Adams |first=Cindy Heller |title=The gift of Jazzy / Cindy Adams-1st ed. |publisher=St. Martin's Publishing Group. |year=2003 |isbn=9781429956895 |edition=1st |location=The United States of America |publication-date=February 8, 2003}}</ref> A sequel to the the read was released in 2006,
In 2003, Cindy Heller Adams authored a [[St. Martin's Publishing Group|St Martin's Publishing Group]] publication titled ''The gift of Jazzy,'' a [[memoir]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Adams |first=Cindy Heller |title=The gift of Jazzy / Cindy Adams-1st ed. |publisher=St. Martin's Publishing Group. |year=2003 |isbn=9781429956895 |edition=1st |location=The United States of America |publication-date=February 8, 2003}}</ref> A sequel to the the read was released in 2006.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Living a Dog's Life, Jazzy, Juicy, and Me |url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/343719.Living_a_Dog_s_Life_Jazzy_Juicy_and_Me |access-date=2024-04-29 |website=Goodreads |language=en}}</ref> The book titled, ''Living a dog's life: Jazzy, Juicy, and m''e<ref>{{Cite book |last=Adams |first=Cindy Heller |title=A dog's life: Jazzy, Juicy, and me |publisher=[[St. Martin's Publishing Group]] |year=2006 |isbn=9780312364076 |edition=2nd |location=The United States of America}}</ref> was published as the second edition in Adams' authorship journey.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cindy Adams, About the Author |url=https://us.macmillan.com/author/cindyadams |website=[[Macmillan Publishers]]}}</ref>


==Animal activism==
==Animal activism==

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Cindy Adams
Adams at the première of Spider-Man 3 at the Tribeca Film Festival 2007
Born
Cindy Heller

(1930-04-24) April 24, 1930 (age 94)[1]
NationalityAmerican
Occupations
Spouse
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(m. 1952; died 1999)​

Cynthia Adams (née Heller; born April 24, 1930)[2] is an American gossip columnist and writer. She is the widow of comedian/humorist Joey Adams.

Early life and education

Cynthia Heller an only child.[2] Following her parents divorce, young Cynthia was raised by her single mother, Jessica.[3]

Marriage to Joey Adams

Adams began to work as a photographer's model in Manhattan, and met her future husband, Joey Adams, a year later,[2] when they appeared on the same radio show.[4] They married on Valentine's Day 1952, and had no children. Joey died in 1999, following a long illness.[5]

Writing career

Since 1979, Adams has written a gossip column for the New York Post, a New York City newspaper. She also contributed to Sunday Today in New York, a now-defunct newscast on WNBC television and had previously contributed[6] twice a week on WNBC's Live at Five newscast, until it took on a new format on March 12, 2007.[citation needed]

Adams also wrote for local papers, including, eventually, the New York Post at the same time as her husband, who wrote a newspaper column for the Long Island Press on Long Island and later the New York Post. In 1965, she co-wrote an English-language autobiography of Indonesian president Sukarno, about whom she wrote another book two years later, during which he had been toppled by a pro-West general. In 1975, Adams published a biography of Jolie Gabor, the mother of the Gabor sisters. Among those whom she interviewed in 1970 was Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the shah of Iran. Adams later became friendly with Imelda Marcos, the controversial widow of former Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos.[7][8]

Adams became a syndicated newspaper columnist in 1981. Additionally, she was an original contributor to the syndicated, tabloid television A Current Affair and has appeared often on Good Morning America, a morning news-and-talk show on the ABC television network. In 1990, Adams served as a panelist on To Tell the Truth, an NBC television network game show.

She is known for ending her columns with the catch phrase: "Only in New York, kids, only in New York."[9]

In 2003, Cindy Heller Adams authored a St Martin's Publishing Group publication titled The gift of Jazzy, a memoir.[10] A sequel to the the read was released in 2006.[11] The book titled, Living a dog's life: Jazzy, Juicy, and me[12] was published as the second edition in Adams' authorship journey.[13]

Animal activism

In wake of the passage of Joey Adams, beloved husband of nearly 47-years to Cindy, the three-year season of bereavement that Cindy experienced in her transition from wife to widow, the universe would present a new loving, loyal companion to help fill the void of grief. That love would come in the form of a canine named Jazzy.[14] Jazzy, her Yorkshire Terrier, trailed her in public and became a minor celebrity himself. Adams and Jazzy would often dine together at New York City's finest restaurants, including Le Cirque.[15] Adams dresses her dogs in expensive designer clothes and jewelry.[16]

One weekend, Adams put Jazzy in a kennel in upstate New York when she left the city. By the time she returned Jazzy had died.[17][18] She had a necropsy performed, which showed E. coli bacteria in the dog's system. In an article published in The New York Times, Adams was quoted as saying, "Now this is a dog that I hand-fed. I would lie on my stomach in the kitchen and hand-feed him kosher chicken. We would go to Le Cirque and eat off of Limoges porcelain. Where would he get E. coli?"[17]

She became a vocal advocate[19] for strengthening regulations of boarding kennels. In 2004, she garnered the support of television journalist Barbara Walters, socialite Ivana Trump, attorney Barry Slotnick, writer Tama Janowitz, and New York City Council Speaker Gifford Miller, to pass the Boarding Kennel and Regulation Act, also known as "Jazzy's Law".[20] According to Adams, "To prevent others from suffering my Jazzy['s] pain, this local 'Boarding Kennel and Regulation Act' will: license kennels, monitor them regularly, fine those in violation, require records and rules, demand boarded pets prove vaccination and immunization against contagious doggy diseases."[21] Despite the increasingly strict New York City health code, which only permits service animals in restaurants, Adams continues to bring her dogs to New York City restaurants.[22]

Personal life

Adams lives and works from a nine-room penthouse apartment with a 1,000-square-foot (93 m2) veranda on Park Avenue in Manhattan, which she and her husband purchased from the estate of billionaire heiress Doris Duke[23] in 1997.[24] Because of the apartment's connection with Duke, Adams hosted the wrap party for the television biographical film Bernard and Doris (2008), about Duke's later years and Duke's relationship with her butler.[25][clarification needed]

Her words after her husband's death included:[26]

  • "My career came because I married Joey."
  • "This man gave me everything. Everything I have, I got from him. He introduced me to the world."

Illness in 2010

Adams ceased writing her regular New York Post column in May 2010 without notice, and there was no news beyond brief mentions that she was "unwell". In late June, Liz Smith, another gossip columnist (whose column used to be carried by the Post), reported in her online column that Adams was ill with a stomach malady. A Christian Scientist, Adams had avoided medical help until forced by friends Barbara Walters and television judge Judith Sheindlin to obtain it; Sheindlin became Adams' healthcare proxy as Adams has no immediate family. The diagnosis was said to be an almost-burst appendix. Smith reported on June 29, 2010 that "she [Adams] is now on the mend".[27] From July 2010 through September 20, 2010, the New York Post noted that Adams will be "returning soon". She returned with a column detailing her illness on September 20, 2010.[28] She wrote that she had had a ruptured appendix and anemia.

Bibliography

  • Sukarno; Adams, Cindy Heller (1965). Sukarno – An Autobiography. Bobbs-Merrill. (Indianapolis, Indiana; Kansas City, Missouri). OCLC 256887.
  • Adams, Cindy Heller (1967). My Friend the Dictator. Bobbs-Merrill (Indianapolis, Indiana). OCLC 1129848.
  • Gabor, Jolie; Adams, Cindy Heller (1975). Jolie Gabor. Mason/Charter (New York City). ISBN 978-0-88405-125-1.
  • Adams, Cindy Heller (1980). Lee Strasberg – The Imperfect Genius of the World. Doubleday (Garden City, New York). ISBN 978-0-385-12496-6.
  • Adams, Cindy Heller; Crimp, Susan (1995). Iron Rose – The Story of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy and Her Dynasty. Dove Books (Beverly Hills, California). ISBN 978-0-7871-0475-7.
  • Adams, Cindy (2003). The Gift of Jazzy. St. Martin's Press (New York City). ISBN 978-0-312-27307-1.
  • Adams, Cindy (2007). Living a Dog's Life – Jazzy, Juicy, and Me. St. Martin's Press (St. Martin's Griffin imprint) (New York City). ISBN 978-0-312-36407-6.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Cindy Adams: Forget Wikipedia, I'm Not 83!". HuffPost. May 11, 2009. Retrieved April 5, 2024.
  2. ^ a b c Andrew Jacobs (April 3, 2006). "On Job With Empress of Celebrity Gossip". The New York Times.
  3. ^ "Gossip columnist Cindy Adams' bold-faced life - CBS News". www.cbsnews.com. October 7, 2018. Retrieved April 29, 2024.
  4. ^ Tallmer, Jerry (April 1–30, 2006). "Cindy Adams – Present Tense". Thrive NYC. Archived from the original on October 11, 2010. Retrieved August 13, 2010.
  5. ^ Moritz, Owen (December 3, 1999). "Comic Joey Adams, 88". Daily News. Retrieved August 13, 2010.[permanent dead link‍]
  6. ^ James Barron; Brian Stelter (March 7, 2012). "Station to Oust Anchor, Ending 'Chuck and Sue'". The New York Times. .. Cindy Adams of The New York Post, who appeared on "Live At Five" when Ms. Simmons was one of the anchors.
  7. ^ Adams, Cindy (March 7, 2006). Living a Dog's Life: Jazzy, Juicy, and Me. Macmillan. ISBN 9780312323776. Retrieved August 13, 2010.
  8. ^ Kilgannon, Corey (July 2, 2003). "Boldface Names – Only at Cindy's, Kids, Only at Cindy's". The New York Times. Retrieved July 1, 2010.
  9. ^ Stein, Sadie (December 5, 2019). "Cindy Adams, New York's Queen of Gossip, Keeps Everyone's Secrets". Town & Country. Retrieved January 4, 2021.
  10. ^ Adams, Cindy Heller (2003). The gift of Jazzy / Cindy Adams-1st ed (1st ed.). The United States of America: St. Martin's Publishing Group. (published February 8, 2003). ISBN 9781429956895.
  11. ^ "Living a Dog's Life, Jazzy, Juicy, and Me". Goodreads. Retrieved April 29, 2024.
  12. ^ Adams, Cindy Heller (2006). A dog's life: Jazzy, Juicy, and me (2nd ed.). The United States of America: St. Martin's Publishing Group. ISBN 9780312364076.
  13. ^ "Cindy Adams, About the Author". Macmillan Publishers.
  14. ^ "Gossip columnist Cindy Adams' bold-faced life - CBS News". www.cbsnews.com. October 7, 2018. Retrieved April 25, 2024.
  15. ^ Kuczynski, Alex (February 3, 2003). "At Lunch With: Cindy Adams – Listen Up: Lady Plugs Self, Dog, Not Stars". The New York Times. Retrieved August 13, 2010.
  16. ^ Stuever, Hank (May 18, 2023). "I Woof New York: Cindy Adams and Her Yorkie Prove That a Little Dog Can Go a Long Way". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved April 29, 2024.
  17. ^ a b Hu, Winnie (November 10, 2004). "Working to Save Other Yorkies from Jazzy's Fate". The New York Times. Retrieved August 13, 2010.
  18. ^ Williams, Jeannie (February 2, 2003). "Cindy Adams Wags a Jazzy Dog Tale". USA Today. Retrieved August 13, 2010.
  19. ^ Jacob Bernstein (June 28, 2013). "Angst at the A.S.P.C.A." The New York Times.
  20. ^ Hu, Winnie (November 10, 2004). "Working to Save Other Yorkies From Jazzy's Fate". The New York Times.
  21. ^ [unreliable source?] "Kennel and Regulation Act". bernadette-peters.com.
  22. ^ Guzman, Isaac (September 27, 2009). "My New York: Cindy Adams". New York Post. Retrieved August 13, 2010.
  23. ^ Katherine Rosman (December 21, 2016). "Want the Scoop on Team Trump? Pay Attention to Cindy Adams". The New York Times. in this large, lavish apartment, which was once owned by Doris Duke.
  24. ^ Swanson, Carl. "Only on Park Avenue, Kids — Cindy Adams Gives Up on Plan To Sell Place for $11 Million". New York. Retrieved August 13, 2010.
  25. ^ Adams, Cindy (December 12, 2005). "Wrap Party at My Apartment". New York Post.
  26. ^ John Alexander (January 5, 2017). "Born in Brooklyn: Late comedian Joey Adams would be 106: Renowned Comedian and Columnist Was Born Jan. 6, 1911". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
  27. ^ Smith, Liz (June 29, 2010). "Barbara Walters Bounces Back – Also from Our Liz: Cindy Adams's 'Alternative' Medicine". wowOwow. Retrieved August 13, 2010.
  28. ^ Adams, Cindy (September 21, 2010). "Return". Detroit Free Press. p. 2D.


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