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...corrupt lawyers and the ouster of a district attorney. He was a leading member of the blue-nosed Watch and Ward Society. As self-appointed judge and jury of the city's morals, the society pounced on the tiniest infractions of "good taste." Playwright Ben Hecht, who used the words "bitch" and "bastard" in one of his plays, was forced to change them to "dame" and "buzzard." Lindsay-Crouse's famed Life With Father rang repeatedly with the exclamation. "Oh, God!" In Boston it had to be changed...
Married. Harold Hecht, 55, independent Hollywood producer (Marty, Sweet Smell of Success); and Martine Milner (real name: Margaret Truefitt), 26, London fashion model; he for the second time; in San Francisco...
Marlon Brando called her "the fat one," Author Ben Hecht "one of the most sad things in Hollywood." When they get up enough courage in their cups, some pressagents refer to her simply as "the old broad"-after glancing nervously around to see that only friends are present. The object of this catalogue of clouts, usually more affectionate than they seem, prefers to describe herself as "the gay illiterate," a tag she swiped from a magazine story and magnified into an autobiography in 1944. This week Louella Oettinger Parsons adds another hard-cover installment, Tell It to Louella (Putnam...
GEORGE J. HECHT Chairman of the Board Baker & Taylor Co. Hillside...
...Young Savages (Hecht; U.A.) is taken from Evan (The Blackboard Jungle) Hunter's novel, A Matter of Conviction, which chronicled some savage, real-life skirmishes in New York's teenage gang warfare. The film is at its best when at its ugliest-picturing punks prowling their tenement-glutted, garbage-strewn "turf" (territory), or an Italian gang stabbing a blind Puerto Rican boy to death, or the grim subway beating of Assistant D.A. Burt Lancaster, or the switchblade threats on his pretty wife. These scenes were excitingly photographed on location in Manhattan's juvenile jungle, but the plot...