Hedda Hopper age of 80 in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills . She is buried at Rose Hill Cemetery, Altoona, Pennsylvania. For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Hopper has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6313½ Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood. In 1985, Jane Alexander received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination portraying Hopper in the television film "Malice in Wonderland", opposite Elizabeth Taylor as Louella Parsons. In 1995, Cynthia Adler portrayed Hedda Hopper in the documentary "". In 1995, she was portrayed by Katherine Helmond in "" (1995 TV film) In 1999, Rue McClanahan played Priscilla Tremaine,
Gossip columnist into ill-repute after the heyday of Hopper and Parsons, gossip columnists saw a comeback in the 1980s. Today, many mainstream magazines such as "Time" which would once have considered the idea of hiring gossip columnists to pen articles to have been beneath their stature, have sections titled "People" or "Entertainment". These mainstream gossip columns provide a light, chatty glimpse into the private lives and misadventures of the rich and famous. At the other end of the journalism spectrum, there are entire publications that deal primarily in gossip, rumor, and innuendo about celebrities, such as the 'red-top' tabloids in the UK