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...other, "every chin in the place dropped. Hasty telephone calls brought in a mob of patrons. Nobody moved until we left arm in arm two hours later." After a decade of scorched-earth warfare, Louella ("Lollipop") Parsons had sat down to public lunch with her rival, Hedda Hopper...
...entente cordiale did not last, of course-as Hedda makes abundantly clear in a newly released confessional. The Whole Truth and Nothing But (Doubleday, $4.95), which is Hedda's answer to Lolly's Tell It to Louella (TIME, Nov. 24, 1961). Nothing really wrong with Louella, says Hedda, except that she mangles her facts, plays favorites, and through her husband, Dr. Harry ("Docky-Wocky") Martin, used to wangle reports of the results of rabbit tests on the stars' pregnancies, so that Lolly sometimes knew of their delicate condition before the poor girls themselves. Maybe, Hedda hints, Louella...
Lonely Sleep. Hedda, in fact, sees her role as "The Dutch Aunt" of Hollywood-as much a creator as a chronicler of the news. If there is more of an air of self-congratulation about her book than there was about Lolly's ("It's a terrible book," said Lolly candidly of her own, "I wrote every word of it"), it is perhaps because it was written with the help of an assistant named James Brough. Hopper-Brough briefly sketch in Hedda's early life-born Elda Furry in Hollidaysburg, Pa., marriage to and divorce from elderly...
...Hopper story starts with a call from her downtown (Hollywood) office: "Elizabeth, this is Hedda. Level with me, because I shall find out anyhow. What's this Eddie Fisher business all about? You're being blamed for taking Eddie away from Debbie. What have you got to say?" In that particular case, recalls Hedda, "Elizabeth's voice was as innocent as a schoolgirl's: 'It's a lot of bull.'" But later, Elizabeth was taking a non-bullish, un-schoolgirlish sort of line: "What do you expect me to do? Sleep alone...
...remark so enraged Hedda, she says, that she saw to it that the story-minus the offensive quote-was plastered across the front page of the Los Angeles Times. "I had no regret," she adds. "If she'd been my own daughter, I'd have done it. Without a sense of integrity you can't sleep nights...