Word: gossips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Davies, who for two years wrote the "Atticus" feature in the London Sunday Times, is the perfect prototype of the modern hagiographer: a onetime gossip columnist with a novelist's background (Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush). With the help of his subjects, who are getting a cut of the royalties, he offers the largest selection of spicy morsels yet compiled on the Beatles. For example, here is Paul McCartney on sex: "I got it for the first time at 15. I suppose that was a bit early. I was about the first in my class." Or Ringo...
...most unprincipled knave to turn name dropping and voyeurism into a joyous, journalistic living. His detractors appear to be in the minority, however, and to the 30,000 readers who have thus far bought his recent book, Do You Sleep in the Nude?, he is a fascinating gossip who has recast the interview format in his own bitchy image. Son of a Texas oil-company supervisor, Reed spent his formative years in the South traveling from oil boom to oil boom (13 schools, straight A's, a degree in journalism from Louisiana State). He dabbled in acting before...
...boss has committed suicide. Some English reviewers have interpreted the play as a drame a clef-Osborne's public vendetta with Producer-Director Tony Richardson after a recent bitter breakup of their long working relationship. Ordinary audiences, however, can hardly be expected to make sense of arcane theatrical gossip...
...expert on Restoration drama, must be credited with giving his group a sound grounding in Restoration style, because during that segment they managed not only to act funnily within the flitty Restoration method, but also to satirize conventions of Restoration theatre and mores, even to the point of improvising gossip about how Lady Carlisle ate her turnip. And Shakespeare got his due, as one would expect, given a grave on a putting green. Ken Tigar, possibly the quickest witted of this quick crew, finally declaimed "come, my trusty nine iron" as he plunged the weapon through his breast...
...Amid gossip of a second heart transplant for South Africa's Dr. Philip Blaiberg, 59, there arose a question of propriety. Mrs. Dorothy Haupt, 22, whose husband was the donor of the heart Dr. Blaiberg is using, said if he gives it up, she wants it back. Why? Because a spiritualist said her dead husband could not rest without his heart. If the heart is returned, Mrs. Haupt plans to bury it in her husband's grave. "I would do it myself," she said...