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...Hearst friend and spiritual shepherd of Hollywood's producers. Mr. Mayer was warned that the release of Kane would mean a good, old-fashioned Hearstian attack on Hollywood-lots of stories on the intimate facts of the intimate lives of the movie colony. Hearst's gossip-dishing Adela Rogers St. Johns was placed on the firing line...
...temptation for any writer); the buzzing nightclubs ; the stragglers from Pasadena; the masculine-minded feminine population who even pay the checks; the trade-paper racket where you buy good reviews; the frightening bankers from New York who own the studios; the studio commissaries full of rumors and gossip ; the little houses along the beach where the underprivileged are as comfortable as the big shots in their Bel Air mansions. Only a few of these places and people get their right names, but the impression is still there...
Typical German propagandist broadcasts designed to shake British morale contain minute details of what goes on inside individual British aircraft factories, tidbits of shop gossip which it would be easy for British Communist workers to pick up. Six-foot Rajani Palme Dutt, who succeeded Harry Pollitt as secretary of the Party (Pollitt is still a working member), is an Indian who has spent his life in Europe as a political agitator, stands well with Stalin and Molotov...
...past year, Hedda Hopper has been the No. i aerial gossip of Hollywood. Thrice weekly over a CBS network she has broadcast tittle-tattle about celluloid hotshots, under the sponsorship of the California Fruit Growers Exchange. Supplementing her syndicated newspaper column, Hedda's program has helped her to move in on the domain of Louella Parsons, Hearst's quidnunc extraordinary, who used to have Hollywood in her pudgy palms. Last week Gossip Hopper went swirling to Manhattan to be lionessed at luncheons, ballyhooed all over town...
Hedda runs her gossip business smartly, sends a mimeographed report to all studios every two months, pointing out the number of plugs she has given their stars and pictures both on the air and in her column. Cheerful about mistakes she has made, she has installed a gold-plated mechanical canary before her mike, gives herself the bird for every error...