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That firm believer in men as islands unto themselves, Cinemactor-Crooner Frank Sinatra (TIME, Aug. 29), tolled the bells over two big deals he had in the works. First, Frankie and NBC abruptly called off their parleys about the network's lavish five-year contract offer of about $3,000,000 for his TV services. Then, he walked off the Maine location where he was to star in the movie retread of the musical Carousel. His excuse: production complications would have barred him from keeping a singing date in a Las Vegas pleasure dome next week. In Rome, meanwhile...
...movie version of Lindbergh's bestselling, Pulitzer-Prizewinning autobiography, The Spirit of St. Louis. Parked before them was a nostalgic replica of The Spirit itself (the original plane is enshrined in Washington's Smithsonian Institution). The film's Lindbergh will be played by lone-eaglish Cinemactor James (Strategic Air Command) Stewart, himself an Air Force Reserve colonel and wartime B-24 wing commander (20 missions), who last week got the Air Force's exceptional civilian service award for his help in promoting U.S. air power...
...Rome's Ciampino airport, beaming Cinemactress Linda (The Happy Time) Christian welcomed her No. 1 boy friend, British Cinemactor Edmund (The Student Prince) Purdom, dreamily pinned a flower on his lapel when he flew in from Spain. Both Linda and Purdom are in the toils of divorce, she from Cinemactor Tyrone Power, formerly one of Purdom's closest pals. But Linda squelched tattle that a classic Hollywood swap is in the works. Purred she: "I hope to have a lasting affection for Edmund, but that's as far as it goes." Less than a month after...
...with each bimonthly issue, printed on cheap paper and crammed with splashy pictures, Confidential's sale has grown even faster than its journalistic reputation has fallen. It has also spawned a dozen guttery imitators, e.g., Hush Hush, The Lowdown, Exposed, Uncensored, On the Q.T. In Hollywood Cinemactor Humphrey Bogart reports that "everybody reads it, but they say the cook brought it into the house." In Chicago a society matron summed up the simultaneous appall and appeal that she feels for the magazine: "I've read it from cover to cover, and I think it ought to be thrown...
Many a Confidential story is based on facts that newsmen know and could print, e.g., "The Astor Testimony the Judge Suppressed." The magazine specializes in finding one black mark in a subject's distant past, and hammering him with it, e.g., Cinemactor Rory Calhoun's youthful prison record. Sometimes Confidential drops the pretense of reporting altogether, once concluded an article about a Hollywood director and an actress causing a scene in a nightclub with the last line: "It's all a fake...