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...nimbly as I can, this flack has hurried to correct your observation that Gambler Frank Costello bought the Hoffman touch [March 7]. Frank Costello never bought my touch-he sought my advice and got it for nothing. I have done as much for former Ambassador Joe Kennedy. I gave him free advice for Son Jack. "Get him a haircut," I advised...
Aware that I could not be bought and grateful for my advice, Costello once asked me to lunch: "I know I can't offer you any money, but I had an idea. I wuz readin' in Winchell's column the other day where your brudder was made dramatic critic of the Hollywood Reporter. Now here is my idea. I'm connected with a hotel in Las Vegas. We got a room there where we got entertainment. How would it be if I made your brudder dramatic critic of the hotel...
Coke & King Zog. Writing hundreds of letters a week, he touts books and movies (current examples: Moss Hart's autobiography, Act One, and the film version of The World of Suzie Wong). Coca-Cola has bought the Hoffman touch, as have Bulova watches, Gambler Frank Costello, and King Zog of Albania. Sometimes called a "suppressagent" as well, Hoffman collects healthy fees from his clients for keeping material out of the papers. Israeli government officials, for instance, recently proposed to shake the earth with a photograph of Jewish Converts Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe doing a September Morn scene knee...
Stonefaced, Italian-born Gambler Frank Costello, 69, lost one more foothold in his fight to stay on U.S. soil. The U.S. Court of Appeals unanimously upheld a year-old federal court order stripping him of his citizenship because he called himself a real estate dealer instead of a bootlegger, when he was naturalized in 1925. But Costello will probably not go anywhere for a while: he is still serving a five-year sentence for evading more than $28,000 in income taxes...
Stylized Violence. Though these five Eyes have latched onto the classiest clientele scores of lesser peepers operate on IV. Hollywood sound stages, dominated until a few years ago by all sorts of B movies from gangster yarns to Abbott-and-Costello comedies, now harbor an endless succession of Private Eye productions (they are B pictures too, but nobody calls them that). Hollywood prop men account for more blank cartridges in a week than the L.A. police force can match with live bulletsin the line of duty in a year Everyone is getting into the act. At Warners, where TV production...