Word: gossips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason came from Hearst Gossip Columnist Cholly Knickerbocker (Igor Cassini), who used to mention Gilbert frequently, and whose public relations firm had handled E. L. Bruce. Cassini lost at least $30,000 himself in Gilbert's crash and then committed the calumny of calling his oldtime pal "a crook." After a Park Avenue stroll with a pipe-puffing Gilbert last week, Cholly chronicled all. "Eddie said he 'couldn't let down' his parents, his wife and children, his friends and all those who believed in him. 'I also wanted...
...with. Although it grosses $1,500,000 annually in ad revenues, its net profit is chronically so low (about $40,000 after taxes this year) that it can afford only a one-man editorial staff: Editor Charles L. Mee Jr., 24, Guest contributors - Producer David Merrick, Playwright Emlyn Williams, Gossip Columnist Leonard Lyons -are paid nothing at all, or honorariums so embarrassingly low that Playbill chooses to keep the amounts a secret...
...standard you-are-there-under-the-couch voyeurism, Robbins has added carefully observed studies of Mike Hammer's biff-bam psychopathology and Cash McCall's high-finance inside-dopesterism. But the ingredient in the mix that comes nearest to being Robbins' own is the gossip gimmick. He picks a public personage who has figured in lurid headlines, changes his name and a few unimportant details, and writes the novel around him-leaving him as difficult to identify as Liz Taylor in a false beard. In the case of The Carpetbaggers, although of course Robbins would deny...
...advantages of Robbins' gimmick are: 1 ) there is absolutely no necessity that the author know any inside gossip, and 2) there are almost no risks. Where Confidential Magazine got into trouble by naming names and implying facts. Robbins merely gets rich by naming "facts" and implying names...
...kiss upon her cheek, and offered her his own, slightly more ravaged, cheek in return. The kissee, Mrs. John F. Kennedy, looked pleased; but the moment, recorded on nationwide television, brought some cries of public outrage. "Distasteful'' and "disgusting," sniffed the proper to the polltakers; and though Gossip Dorothy Kilgallen soothed one righteous reader by explaining that "it was the sort of 'social' kiss customary in high society," she went on: "it's the New Frontier, so you've got to expect the members to make a few new rules. Maybe kissing the First...