Word: hopper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hello. This is Hedda Hopper. Put Joan on....Hello, Joan?...All right, dear, tell me all about it....Well, he says it's pretty serious. . . . Oh, come on, you can't fool me. Are you in love with him? . . . Now look, dear, I always ask personal questions....Well, how do you get a man to hang that much mink around your neck if you're not serious about him?...I know you're hedging. You can't fool Hopper....Well, you can answer whether you're in love with the guy and intend...
...Hedda Hopper is the handsome, headlong gossip whose syndicated column, usually titled "Hollywood," written in prose of an inspired spasticity, daily gives her 22,800,000 readers the illusion that they have been behind the sets, the bushes and deep into some of Hollywood's better bed-&-bathrooms. This eminence Columnist Hopper shares (reluctantly) with her rival in revelation, Hearstian Columnist Louella ("Lollipop") Parsons, fat, fiftyish, and fatuous, whose syndicated column reaches some 30,000,000 readers...
...story which Miss Hopper derived "by indirection" from her terrifying conversation with Miss Crawford was, as it turned out, dead wrong. But that was immaterial. For headlong Miss Hopper and pudgy Miss Parsons are two of the mightiest publicity powers on earth, and even their whispers can reduce the $250,000-a-year padishahs of pictures to masses of quivering jelly. For a few words from Hedda, set down with the same swooping abandon with which she selects the hats that have become her trademark, or one of Lolly Parsons' little shark-toothed prose smiles, can make or break...
...Elda replaced Ina Claire in the road company of The Quaker Girl. The show closed in Buffalo, and as Elda stepped off the milk train in Manhattan, DeWolf Hopper, having just divorced his fourth wife, was waiting on the platform to marry her. From that sensationally popular musical comedy star, Elda acquired a dressing-room knowledge of practically everybody on the stage. She also acquired a son, William DeWolf Jr., and a new first, as well as a new last name. For in their honeymoon days...
...like a cub from the Christian Science Monitor. She even knew what the inside of Garbo's dressing room looked like ("the black hole of Calcutta"). Studio publicity men, hard up for a story, always knew where to get it: go out and latch a siphon on to Hopper...