Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sweet Smell of Success reeks of the putrid kingdom bounded on all four sides by Broadway and ruled by the powerful typewriter of J.J. Hunsecker, columnist for the New York Globe. It is the story of sleazy press agent Sidney Falco's ruthless attempt to follow his nose, which he doesn't hesitate to use in his dealings with J.J. It is also the story of J.J.'s equally ruthless attempts to prevent the marriage of his neurotic sister Suzy with a straight arrow guitarist, Steve Dallas, who has "integrity--acute, like indigestion...
...high, where it's always balmy." "Nice to people where it pays to be nice," Falco is assigned by J.J. to break up Suzy's romance. Since he won't get space in J.J.'s column until he does, Falco resorts in turn to blackmailing one rival columnist and procuring a prostitute for another in order to have an item smearing Dallas printed in the papers. Just to make sure, he plants marijuana in Dallas' coat and has him beaten and then arrested by a Hunsecker-owned police officer. Indeed, Sidney walks in "moral twilight," "a cookie full of arsenic...
...Masons descended on Hollywood in 1947, and Pamela found it such a "naively pure" town ("Peyton Place was squeamish by comparison") that she has felt compelled to educate it ever since. She has feuded with Columnist Hedda Hopper ("a dreadful person"), constantly popped off with suggestions such as harems for Hollywood husbands in order to prevent "messes like Eddie Fisher and Liz Taylor...
...Jazz-A Quarterly of American Music (circ. 5,000), and tosses off such extra projects as organizing jazz TV programs and festivals. His 1958 book, Jam Session, has sold 5,000 copies, is now in a British edition. Last year Gleason became the nation's first syndicated jazz columnist, now sounds off weekly in 15 papers from the Los Angeles Mirror-News to the Boston Globe...
Hooked with the Measles. Calling the tune as he hears it, Columnist Gleason has earned such a reputation among San Francisco jazz addicts that his column of praise made a hit out of Louie Armstrong's earthy recording of Mack the Knife after it had been all but ignored by local stations. On occasion, the amiable Gleason can peel skin. He risked the formidable anger of Pat Boone fans by describing Pat as "nice, clean-cut, antiseptic, spiritless, pallid, pretentious and even a bit of a phony." Last week, in his syndicated column, he took a long look...