Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Worst of all, in many a moviemaker's mind, is Brando's habit of teasing Hollywood's sacred cows, the gossip columnists. Actress Jessica Tandy once went to Marlon's dressing room with a powerful woman who, as everybody in the entertainment business knows, likes to think of herself as still quite youthful-looking. Said Marlon to Jessica in his silkiest tone: "Ah, this must be your mother." Columnist Hedda Hopper also went to interview him. "She talked for half an hour solid," says a Hollywood reporter, "and in all that time Marlon gave exactly...
...matter of days. He can imitate someone precisely after watching him for two minutes. He almost never answers the phone in his own voice, usually convinces the caller that he is someone else. His sense of humor is as graphic as an otter's. One day a woman columnist walked up to him and said in a sugary voice: "Why, you look like everybody else!" Marlon stared at her for a moment in silence, then turned without a word to the nearest corner and stood on his head...
...years later a subpoena for his appearance was issued by the Un-American Activities committee and then withdrawn. In 1950 both the New York Daily News and columnist Fulton Lewis published articles repeating the spy charges against Glasser. As the Rutgers faculty committee which later reviewed the case pointed out, this long series of incidents apparently developed a feeling of harassment in Glasser's mind and a sharp antagonism toward investigative groups...
...Justice Department is using it as a sharp new weapon in the Administration's war on Communism. Last week word leaked out that the Department had called twelve witnesses before grand juries in the District of Columbia and in New Jersey-including Mary Price, onetime secretary of Columnist Walter Lippmann; Edward J. Fitzgerald, onetime War Production Board economist, and Harold Glasser, onetime Treasury Department associate of the late Harry Dexter White. The main purpose is to get more information about Soviet spy networks, past and present. Some of these witnesses may refuse to answer, trusting that the witness-immunity...
...Forgetful Reporter. Columnist Winchell was a reluctant witness. Under questioning by Assistant Committee Counsel Guy G. de Furia, at first he said: "I would not reveal my source of information on any news." Senator Watkins suggested that Winchell was "laboring the point a little" and asked pointedly: Did he actually know who delivered the document to him? Winchell replied: "I do not know. I am not sure." Later, he added: "I am pretty sure that it was not Senator McCarthy" or anyone on his staff. Winchell explained why he was not sure: "There are so many people offering material...