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...that A-B-C symbolic level, when the panther eats up some Good Instincts (cows), a sort of back-country Cain (Robert Mitchum) and his Abel-type brother (William Hopper) set forth to slay the beast. Abel dies beneath the Tree of Life and Cain also turns up his toes. But a third brother (Tab Hunter) puts a bullet in the panther, and just at that instant the sun breaks through a cloud, transfiguring him into something painfully like the Better Life...
...faculty member praised the censure motion because of its effects overseas. "From the point of view of foreign relations, a strong censure of Senator McCarthy would have a favorable effect on European opinion of the United States," Bruce C. Hopper, associate professor of Government, said...
...that was about all the information the reporters got that they might depend on-for Brando, in his own unpredictable way, frequently likes to play the merry wild goose. Like lovers in a gay French film, the couple first talked about the romance that neither Louella Parsons nor Hedda Hopper in their wildest moments had predicted. Josane, who used to pose for the late Moise Kisling, famed painter of sensuous nudes, said she met Marlon in New York last February, when she was a governess (piano and French lessons) in a psychiatrist's family. "Two hours after our meeting...
...mobilized his troops. He called in five assistants while he dashed off a short release that the breakup was the result of "conflicting demands of their careers." Then the staff deployed to their phones, notified four Los Angeles dailies, the wire services and such top columnists as Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons, so that each would be the "first" to know. In only seven minutes, Hollywood's 20 top news outlets had the word...
...Actress Jessica Tandy once went to Marlon's dressing room with a powerful woman who, as everybody in the entertainment business knows, likes to think of herself as still quite youthful-looking. Said Marlon to Jessica in his silkiest tone: "Ah, this must be your mother." Columnist Hedda Hopper also went to interview him. "She talked for half an hour solid," says a Hollywood reporter, "and in all that time Marlon gave exactly one and a half grunts." He now calls Hedda "The One with the Hat," and Louella Parsons "The Fat One." The two influential lady writers naturally...