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...more movie stars at CBS and NBC than at any [movie] studio." says Gossip Columnist Hedda Hopper. The TV set, once trimmed with skunk by a movie mogul who desired to show his contempt for the new medium, now can be ordered in mink from a Hollywood furrier. Even in the executive dining rooms of some of the movie studios that once swore war to the death against the invasion, television sets now play through lunch. These and many other signs suggest how television, with its voracious demand for stories, actors, film and filmmakers, has become the star...
Such film gossipists as Hedda Hopper find themselves devoting increasing space to TV personalities. When the famed old Cocoanut Grove reopened a fortnight ago, the society columns listed as guests George Gobel, Hugh (Wyatt Earp) O'Brian, Art Linkletter, even Milton Berle. Hollywood's own Bastille Day, the annual Oscar awards, is geared completely as a sponsored TV show; except for those in the running for an Oscar, few movie people bother to attend...
...drastic income-tax limitation would 1) annoy a lot of voters as a gift to the more highly paid, and 2) cost the Federal Government an indispensable slice of its income. Illinois' Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen, a McKinley Republican, has dropped a tax-limitation bill into the Senate hopper, but the proposal is sleeping soundly, and only a loud popular demand-wildly improbable-would awaken...
Playhouse 90 (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., CBS). The Hostess with the Mostes' casts Shirley Booth as Party Girl Perle Mesta. With Jackie Coogan. Hedda Hopper...
...Into the hopper of the Federal Power Commission last week plopped a report from the Interior Department discussing the possibility of building a new federal high dam on the Snake River between Oregon and Idaho. The report, as it stood, was a drastic modification of former Interior Secretary Douglas McKay's stand against the celebrated Hell's Canyon federal dam, a stand which some Western Republicans have blamed for the defeat of many a Western Republican candidate last November (including Oregon's candidate for the U.S. Senate Doug McKay...