Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hotel George V in Paris, green-bathrobed Moviemaker Darryl F. Zanuck told the New York Herald Tribune's Columnist Art Buchwald how he rated Author Ernest Hemingway as a movie critic. Film in point: Zanuck's screen version of Papa's The Sun Also Rises (TIME, Sept. 2). Hemingway was quoted in the London Sunday Dispatch as saying: "I saw Darryl Zanuck's splashy Cook's tour of Europe's lost-generation bistros, bull fights and more bistros. It's all pretty disappointing, and that's being gracious. You're meant...
...tips on fashionable fads, and be lectured on the proper way to broil a steak (rare-to-blue) or mix a martini (8-to-1). Feared or respected by every headwaiter in town, and greeted by readers on the street, Feehan long ago reached the goal of every U.S. columnist of his stripe: he is as famous in his city as any celebrity he writes about...
...occasion, Columnist Feehan turns into a mild crusader-he has berated Munich for its red-light district, chewed out American M.P.s who do not "help teen-age soldiers being openly exploited by hardened harlots." But, generally, Expatriate Feehan sticks to chiding German frauleins on their spraddle-footed dancing, and American housewives on their hair curlers, calling the roll of celebrities who pass through town, and pointing the way to good food and drink, e.g., for Balkan dishes, "go to Bei Milan's in the shadow of the Rathaus...
...treacly tale about a search for an anonymous lyricist, but Hoagy's sangfroid and Pommery piano made a nice counterpoint to Walter's Winchellisms ("Human interest always has a heart"), some of which were not even in the script. As an ABC publicist explained it: Columnist Winchell at 60 "has no trouble learning his lines, but he prefers to study their meanings and rephrase them...
Polish-born Author Singer, 53, a columnist on Manhattan's Jewish Daily Forward, takes a Manichaean view of God and an ironic view of man. In Joy, the Lord of Hosts finally justifies his stern ways to a modern Job. In The Wife Killer, Author Singer touches on a recurrent theme, that vengeance is God's business, not man's. The book's best tale is the title story about Gimpel. who has seven names in all: 'Imbecile, donkey, flax-head, dope, glump, ninny and fool. The last name stuck." Gimpel the Fool...