Word: gossipeer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more movie stars at CBS and NBC than at any [movie] studio." says Gossip Columnist Hedda Hopper. The TV set, once trimmed with skunk by a movie mogul who desired to show his contempt for the new medium, now can be ordered in mink from a Hollywood furrier. Even in the executive dining rooms of some of the movie studios that once swore war to the death against the invasion, television sets now play through lunch. These and many other signs suggest how television, with its voracious demand for stories, actors, film and filmmakers, has become the star...
...paper. Assuming that the package held his notes and papers, reporters asked if he intended to write a book. Replied Hiss: "I certainly intend to do some writing." Last fall the literary grapevine buzzed with the news that Manhattan Publisher Alfred Knopf had bought the Hiss manuscript, and the gossip columns predicted that it would be one of the sensations of the year...
...Islamic maximum. But Grandpa felt he had to tell all; otherwise there would be talk about his granddaughter being on a cruise with the Sultan. "People." said Grandpa, "were saying all sorts of nasty things. She was a joget girl, and you know how vulnerable dancers are to gossip." He added, a little nervously: "I hope the Sultan will understand...
...East Riding folk refuse to do the same, and gossip begins to sputter. Roger and Ida resolve to stay out of each other's way, but it is a promise made between a magnet and a nail. With Ida at his side, a shaken but straightforward Roger deals Louisa a crushing blow: "It seems as if her and me can't help it, Lou, can't keep apart, we shall have...
...Brattle has timed Casablanca's reshowing wisely; the picture was filmed back in Humphrey Bogart's prime, and before Ingrid Bergman became an untouchable to the gossip-columnist caste. Just now, however, the temperers of public sentiment have shed tears for the late, great Bogie, because he is dead; and Miss Bergman is living her renaissance...