Word: gossipeer
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...seldom goes out. People come to him in a steady stream with reports, requests, gossip, rumors, intelligence. Clearly reveling in his game of political chess, he dispatches a Buddhist plenipotentiary to the resort city of Dalat, sends one of his attendant courier-monks with a message to the Vien Hoa Dao. Thich Tam Chau, secretary-general of the institute and nominally the senior monk in Viet Nam, comes by for lunch. Tam Chau, 44, once considered Tri Quang's rival, likes such creature comforts as his chauffeured Mercedes sedan. Tri Quang twits him about it, himself takes pedicabs about town...
...never posed in the nude. The gossip on her is no more exciting than what they write about the Queen Mother. She has made only three films, as yet unreleased-things called Swinging Summer, Fantastic Journey and One Million B.C. Nonetheless Actress Raquel Welch, 23, a San Diego lass making the London scene, is upstaging every sexpot in Europe, being treated to covers on picture magazines and about as much Fleet Street play as Meg would get if she left Lord Snowdon. It's all quite unaccountable, although Raquel herself explains it this way: "I'm told...
Some of the performances, however, nearly transcend their material. Jack Cassidy as the gossip columnist Max Mencken is unbelievably slick and professional. Michael O'Sullivan hams to a proper excess as a ten-time Nobel Prize loser who takes revenge on the world by trying to destroy its culture-hero, Superman. Bob Holiday's deadpan makes him perfect for the title role...
...climactic fight with Harold, are far more effective here than in McCarthy's off-hand prose. You may not particularly care about Priss's breast-feeding, Libby's ambitions, or Dottie's frustrations. but somehow the movie takes you in, gives you a sense of the comedy, the gossip, and finally the tragedy of the group's lives. I don't know if the group' reaction to communism, psychoanalysis, and sex is typical of the 30's but it seems right in the movie. The Group is old hat, '33 to be exact, but well done...
...Gossip. The boys will probably reach a compromise with O'Malley eventually, but harder heads than theirs will dictate the terms. The man advising them is J. William Hayes ("As you go through life," warns a weary Dodger official, "beware of a guy who has an initial for his front name"), a Hollywood gent who usually business-manages more professional actors. The background shows. Explaining why Sandy, with his better record, went in with Don on the parlay, J. William smoothly confides that "they figured the way to end all gossip about rivalry between them would...