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 printed falsehoods about a celebrity with “reckless disregard” for the truth. A celebrity suing a newspaper for libel must now prove that the paper published the falsehood with actual malice, or with deliberate knowledge that the statement was both incorrect and defamatory. Moreover, the court ruled that only factual misrepresentation is libel, not expression of opinion. Thus if a gossip columnist writes that they “...think that Celebrity X is an idiot,” the columnist does not face a risk of being sued for libel. On the other hand, if the columnist invents an allegation that “...Celebrity X is a wife beater,”