Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Read the Gossips. He began life anew amid the lush estates of Beverly Hills, Hollywood, Brentwood and Bel Air. He bought a shiny new Lincoln and a Cadillac convertible to make himself inconspicuous while working, settled down in a modest apartment to keep himself inconspicuous off the job. He studied the movements of his prey by reading society pages, travel news, and Hollywood gossip columns. He soon had a king's ransom in loot...
...Hollywood, Olivia de Havilland called up reporters to tell them that she and husband Marcus Goodrich are expecting their first child in August...
Playwright Clifford (Waiting for Lefty) Odets, 42, returning to Broadway with a bitter satire on Hollywood (The Big Knife) after seven profitable years among the moviemakers, tried to explain the creative urge: "What gets you all hot about a play? I don't know. A moment of pique, a bellyache, a week of exaltation. Who knows? ... I think most of us live like dogs-in the good sense. We are moved by appetites, helter-skelter, a run here, a sniff there. Like animals...
Grinned bespectacled Harvey Brooks, who is still playing "a very quiet piano" in a neighborhood bar on the corner of Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard and Western Avenue: "Just like finding $100,000 . . . L'il Bird isn't nothin...
Shirtsleeved Editor Shipler got into plenty of fights, never backed away from one. Pounding out slam-bang editorials against the corruption of Hollywood, he ended up on the wrong end of a $10,200 libel judgment against The Churchman. But in the late '305, his zeal, which was also sharply anti-Rome, began to find new, political channels of expression. The details of the trend were laid down in a 3,000-word document produced last week by Leon Birkhead to support his statement that The Churchman is "involved with the Communist line." The Birkhead document includes "a selected...