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When the banquet was over, a huffy news contingent stormed Reagan, demanding to know just who was irresponsible. Reagan ticked off the names of Hedda Hopper and some small-bore motion picture columnists, the monthly Modern Screen and a couple of the Los Angeles daily newspapers...
...week's end, neither Hedda nor her colleagues had deigned to answer Reagan. But there was little doubt that if they pounced it would hurt. Hollywood thought that Ronald Reagan was either a very brave man-or a very foolish...
...suggest that the Navy commission Gypsy Rose Lee a commander and put her in charge of stripping ships for action. The Army should commission Hedda Hopper a lieutenant colonel and place her in charge of Army censorship...
...past two months, U.S. televiewers have been getting a drama diet with a loftier intellectual content than that of Broadway. The high-vitamin source is Masterpiece Playhouse (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC-TV), which began its experimental run with Ibsen's suicidal Hedda Gabler and ends it this month with Chekhov's Uncle Vanya. This week, for its sixth performance, Masterpiece staged a fast-paced, absorbing performance of Shakespeare's Othello...
Hollywood Gossipist Hedda Hopper led with her chin, bravely recorded the result: "When I wrote that I didn't understand why Louis Calhern and Nina Foch wanted to do King Lear on Broadway," she reported, "I got the following note from James T. Burns Jr. of Columbia University: 'The reason artists like Calhern and Foch choose to star in Lear instead of staying in California to portray defunct cattle barons and brilliantined cuties is approximately the same reason a gifted writer would prefer to become a Wolcott Gibbs instead of a Hedda Hopper...