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Singer Frank Sinatra seldom ducks a rumble with a reporter. No sooner had he dropped his $3 million lawsuit against New York Gossip Columnist Earl Wilson, who wrote an unauthorized biography of the crooner, than he filed a $2 million complaint against Los Angeles Times Columnist Jody Jacobs. In an upcoming episode of Laugh-In, Ol' Blue Eyes goes after splashier revenge-by pouring a can of green paint (actually, dyed Cream of Wheat cereal) over a Rona Barrett lookalike. The victim: Actress June Gable, who plays a gossip-caster named Ms. Groana on the show. "He dumped this...
Ferris is more interested in transforming Dylan Thomas from a literary gossip item into a case history of arrested adolescence. He has supplemented the story of the Swansea son of an overattentive mother and dissapointed schoolteacher father with some fresh evidence. A former baby sitter recalls the child Dylan as "an absolute tartar, an appalling boy." At twelve, he plagiarized a poem and had it published in the Cardiff Western Mail As a young reporter in Swansea, Thomas developed his heavy drinking habits for, Ferris suggests, "the pleasure of being rescued afterwards." He was obsessed with fears of sexual inferiority...
...through a straw"), but such lapses of taste are rare. More often, Mazo brings fragments of the life sharply into focus with his knack for daring imagery ("feet flash out and back like darting fish"), and what could have been either an uncritical catalogue or a collection of gossip succeeds instead in being both thorough and sparkling...
...conversations along the buffet table consist mostly of insurance firm gossip, lamentations about the stock market, and the latest round of fifty-year old debates on the relative merits of the Yankees and the Red Sox. But this year, more than a few alumni mentioned either excitement or concern about the possibility of Harvard launching a major capital fund drive, the first such drive here since the mid-fifties...
...COULD a Berkowitz kill a Moskowitz?" the interviewer asks Shelley Duvall as they find their table in a New York restaurant. The latest issue of Andy Warhol's Interview continues in this tasteless vein for 48 pages of newsprint that would like to be glossy, and contains gossip that would like to be sophisticated. It ends up sounding like People magazine, except that artsy condescension replaces human interest...