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...Masterworks Theater (Sun. 9:00 p.m., NBC-TV). Hedda Gabler, starring Jessica Tandy, Walter Abel, Margaret Phillips...
...extravagant advance publicity. His personal eccentricities, as well as his acting skill, had the film colony agog. He appeared to be the first genuine "character" since Garbo. Dressed in his usual cotton T-shirt and greasy jeans, Brando shunned the big stars and their glittering parties, brushed Hedda Hopper aside with a few vague grunts, spent most of his time roaming the back alleys and bars, sometimes without shoes. The $150 weekly allowance from his father (who invests the rest of Brando's earnings in Nebraska cattle) was always gone in a few days, much of it handed...
From Manhattan, the tabloid Daily News recalled with leering glee that the judge had once seen a musical called Wine, Women & Song three times before testifying that a strip-tease dancer had "turned her back . . . and rotated her buttocks." Gossipist Hedda Hopper noted that he was "the guy who made trouble for practically every studio in town" two years ago as the temporary head of the industry's self-censoring production code office. Sniffed Daily Variety: COOL RECEPTION ACCORDED PEEKER AT H'D MORALS...
...abruptly as he had hired him (one guess: Hearstling Louella Parsons thought him too smart for her own good), Skinny signed up with N.E.A. Skinny knew that he was no match for the catty, gossipy coverage of Hollywood's boudoirs, salons and saloons by Columnists Parsons and Hedda Hopper. Instead, he started covering Hollywood like any good, workaday reporter, still makes a daily round of the studios. Explains Johnson: "Hollywood is a City Hall beat, with bosoms...
...thought to get Hedda Hopper into a hissing match with a skunk, she had underestimated her fox. Baring her claws a bit, Hedda told a newsman: "I didn't think the Wangers could afford the ad ... I'm completely surprised but completely amused." To her readers she sweetly announced: "It was a good publicity skunk and beautifully behaved. I christened it Joan." Then she gave the animal to the James Masons, who had been looking for one "as a companion for their nine cats. Seems there is a great affinity between cats and skunks...