Word: hollywoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Saturday, February 12 THE HOLLYWOOD PALACE (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Aaron Copland's A Lincoln Portrait, in words and music, with Edward G. Robinson as narrator...
Hedda Hopper was the town's genial Scold, Buster Keaton its somber Sphinx; together, they were Hollywood past and present. Keaton's world-the gothic twilight of the silent movie, the pratfall, the Quixote on a treadmill-dimmed when the sound stage dawned. Hopper's world-of glamour, gossip and low jinks among the high-lifes-survived largely because she made it seem exciting even when it was dull. When TV nearly killed the movies, she helped rescue them with exposés and exclusives, chitchat and charm; to 30 million readers, Hedda Hopper was Celluloid City...
...Chairman Gross will go far out of his way to avoid admitting that he heads one of the nation's largest industrial corporations. To occupational questions from fellow airline travelers, he usually responds: "I'm in manufacturing." Recently a famous European actress seated beside him at a Hollywood dinner party asked the inevitable "What do you do?" Replied Gross: "I'm an aircraft mechanic." To his relief, the actress ignored him for the rest of the evening...
Died. Hedda Hopper, 75, Hollywood's genial scold; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles (see SHOW BUSINESS...
...University of Virginia, and in 1962 lectured on writing at West Point. Moreover, perhaps no major U.S. writer ever used his pen so diligently and profitably in so many different ways. After his first success with Sanctuary in 1932, he frequently worked in the movie factories in Hollywood, wrote formula short stories for the Saturday Evening Post, and occasionally knocked out a book review for the New Republic or American Mercury...