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...they are of any public inconvenience that has been around for more than 100 years. Sprouting from the main lines, branch tracks lace the map like a web spun by a Stakhanovite spider. One-and two-car trains jog across the countryside as leisurely and erratically as the village gossip on her daily rounds. Except on the crack trains, cars are dirty, creaky, ramshackle and old, though also comfortable in a musty, antimacassar way. Cartoonist Rowland Emett has epitomized both Britain's love and loathing in Punch's "FarTwittering and Oysterperch Railway." But these rachitic sinews manfully bore...
Steven Aaron, as a gouty old gossip, is another worthy addition to the destructive drawing room. But once the good tempered malice of Lady Teazle is allowed to take control of the play, the sinner's circle must suffer and with them some of Sheridan's best effects. Though the friendly barbs in the Sneerwell drawing-room provide a vastly enjoyable visit, the play might also have retained its cutting edge to good purpose...
Phffft! (Columbia) is the sound made by an expiring match-the kind that gutters out in gossip columns. "Don't say it," runs the sales slogan for the picture, "see it!" The advice is sensible...
Worst of all, in many a moviemaker's mind, is Brando's habit of teasing Hollywood's sacred cows, the gossip columnists. Actress Jessica Tandy once went to Marlon's dressing room with a powerful woman who, as everybody in the entertainment business knows, likes to think of herself as still quite youthful-looking. Said Marlon to Jessica in his silkiest tone: "Ah, this must be your mother." Columnist Hedda Hopper also went to interview him. "She talked for half an hour solid," says a Hollywood reporter, "and in all that time Marlon gave exactly...
...they normally behave with the hostility of ants at a picnic. The marvelous thing about Hollywood is that these people are recognized as sort of the norm, while I am the flip. These gnarled and twisted personalities see no other way to live except on a pedestal of malicious gossip and rumor to be laid on the ears of unsuspecting people who believe them...