Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hollywood, where no approaching stork goes long undetected by the heir-spotting magpies, Actor Pau! Newman and his Oscar-winning wife Joanne Woodward (The Three Faces of Eve) admitted it was true: face number three will arrive in April...
...both the gifted actor who played Marty and the great poet-playwright who created The Waste Land are part of show business, and both made news last week. So did their wives. In the case of the newly divorced Ernest Borgnines, it was a matter of an old Hollywood story; in the case of the almost newlywed T. S. Eliots, it was a matter of brand-new play. For both stories, see SHOW BUSINESS, Marty in Hollywood and Love & Mr. Eliot...
...younger half of her 81 years. Stirring from retirement in Aberdeen, the Scots prima donna was reportedly in the city on business: to sign a contract for a motion picture and TV series based on her life. Trilled Mary Garden, who refused a similar proposal from Hollywood producers nearly five years ago: "None of those dumb blondes can play...
This guy Ernie (as many a conversation in Hollywood steam rooms and Gibson shops made clear last week) was just an ordinary guy from Connecticut 15 years ago, serving a long hitch in the Navy. One day he was laid up in the hospital in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and right away he fell in love with his nurse. Girl by the name of Rhoda. Kind of fat girl, but nice, and it figured: he was fat; she was fat; they were happy...
...disconcerting editorial flabbiness also crept in. Example: the Trib recently spiked stories on the Hollywood high jinks of Dominican Playboy Rafael ("Ramfis") Trujillo Jr. (see THE HEMISPHERE), which occurred as the paper was getting out a 48-page advertising supplement on the Dominican Republic. The jazzed-up Trib lost serious readership to the ad-heavy, news-fat Times (circ. 663,106), but gained few readers from the morning tabloids, the crisp News (circ. 2,014,542), Hearst's snappy Mirror (circ...