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...Yorker Writers Calvin Trillin and John McPhee, Alvin M. Josephy of American Heritage. The pseudonymous financial analyst "Adam Smith," author of the bestselling The Money Game, wrote for our Business section under his real name, George J.W. Goodman, before becoming editor of The Institutional Investor. Syndicated Hollywood Columnist Joyce Haber is a former TIME researcher and correspondent in our Los Angeles bureau...
...PHONE call jolted awake Paramount Senior Vice President Robert Evans at 4 o'clock one morning last fall. Walter Matthau was on the line-and on the rampage-from the Long Island location of A New Leaf. According to Hollywood Columnist Joyce Haber, Matthau yelled: "If you don't get Stanley Jaffe off this picture, I'm leaving. Who is this twirp?" What, Evans asked, seemed to be the trouble between Walter and the 29-year-old who had just taken over as producer? Matthau explained that while shooting, "I had to go to the bathroom...
...much in common with the SDS that drafted the "Port Haron Statement" in 1962. That was a group of disaffected students and intellectuals, alienated both from the American dream and the pedantic Old Left squabbles their parents had engaged in thirty years before. Led by Tom Hayden and Al Haber, these children of Hiroshima and Coca-Cola nurtured on Paul Goodman hoped to forge a "New Left" that would revive radical politics after the critical somnolence of the fifties...
Double Check. The daughter of a Philco executive who died in 1942, Joyce Haber is a product of Manhattan's Brearley school for girls and Barnard College. Although her judgment is erratic (she put Candy on her list of last year's ten best movies), she learned as a researcher and Los Angeles correspondent for TIME from 1953 to 1966 to double-check her facts. She now earns nearly $50,000 from the Times and the syndicate, but claims, weepishly, that this only puts her and Husband Doug into a higher tax bracket, so "the column is really...
Every top Hollywood columnist needs a rival with whom to feud, and Haber has found one in Rona Barrett, a TV gossipist for the Metromedia stations. She watches the Barrett show with competitive pride. "Oh, that's all wrong," Haber will scoff at one of Rona's items. Or "I had that but didn't use it." In her success, Haber may face a danger. It was she who wrote in an unkind piece on Barbra Streisand: "Once you are a superstar, there are two choices open to you: you can become a bore or a monster...