Word: gossip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hourlong, live-television news show that carried Timesmen's reports from New York, Washington and Europe. The Spanish-language El Diario began running two pages of news in English, doubled its press run to 140,000, had to turn away advertising. The National Enquirer, weekly sex-and-gossip sheet, put out an extra issue with some news between the covers...
...play because it has name actors, and producers are apt to hire stars for insurance, whether they fit the role or not. For partygoers, the play is far from the thing. They are apt to turn up high from preparty banquets; men do business in the aisles, wives gossip from row to row. Mary Martin once complained: "Their attitude is: 'I've paid my 35 bucks, now show...
...ticking when you just wind. You have to shake it a little-not just any old way-but just so." ¶ Producer Darryl Zanuck, fervent avuncular friend of Left Bank Singer Juliette ("the wild one") Greco, rode into battle for his protégée. Through a London gossip column, U.S. Moviemaker Carl Foreman irritably reported that Zanuck was over-pushing Greco for a fat part in Foreman's new picture, Guns of Navarone. Zanuck, who elevated his black-haired Lorelei from subterranean boites to stardom in The Roots of Heaven, angrily denied the Foreman charge: "I have...
Addicts of Churchilliana will read this valet's valedictory for bits of backstage gossip like this, yet the book is more than just another footnote to the Churchill legend. It stands in its own right as a comedy of character. On foreign travel Norman hardly ever went to hear the guv'nor's speeches-he heard enough of his master's voice as it was. Yet Churchill always gravely consulted the young man after a speech: "I thought it went rather well, didn't you?" Invariably, Norman would answer, "Yes sir, very well indeed." Norman...
...room contains unopened suitcases and unpacked crates frequently decorated with filled martini glasses, for in Holly's transient world, home is wherever one hangs one's hangover. Into Holly's rowdy parties troop the well-heeled and just plain heels. Among them: a rich, effeminate, gossip-column playboy; a roller-skating coloratura; Holly's cigar-and-grammar-chomping onetime Hollywood agent, who says of her, "She isn't a phony because she's a real phony"; Holly's long-abandoned middle-aged hubby from Tulip, Texas, who reveals her unphony name (Lulamae Barnes...