Word: goodman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Frank Sinatra walked into your office and punched I TIME Hollywood Correspondent] Ezra Goodman right in the middle of his fat face, I can't say I'd blame him . . . NELLO PACETTI Kenosha...
Like Hollywood itself, the movie beat has grown since Goodman first started the rounds. "Today it ranges from the movie studios all the way out to Las Vegas, which has become a supercenter of glamour, and back to the new television studios. Hollywood no longer means just the movies," says Goodman...
Since his return to Hollywood, Goodman has worked on such recent TIME covers as the Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, Walt Disney and Gwen Verdon stories. A serious student of the movie industry, Correspondent Goodman has collected over the years a library of some 1,000 books from a 1671 volume, Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae (The Great Art of Light and Shadow), dealing with the invention of the magic lantern, to Mary Pickford's autobiography, Sunshine and Shadow...
...even for the serious student, the film capital still has its lighter moments. In line of duty, Goodman has turned out in Roman toga to recline on a sofa and eat roast suckling pig at the Sasha's Palate restaurant (TIME, Nov. 30, 1953). He was dutifully present at Michael's Cheesecake Stand in the Los Angeles Farmer's Market in 1951, when Marilyn Monroe was ceremoniously crowned "Miss Cheesecake." And he is willing to testify personally to one epic Goldwynism: "I will never write my autobiography as long as I live...
...Sinatra cover story, Goodman conducted no fewer than 50 interviews with Sinatra, his friends and associates. Said Actor Bogart in tribute to Correspondent Goodman's relentless questioning: "Goodman is the kind of guy who sits right across the table from you, looks you square in the eyes and asks you what color your eyes...