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...abruptly as he had hired him (one guess: Hearstling Louella Parsons thought him too smart for her own good), Skinny signed up with N.E.A. Skinny knew that he was no match for the catty, gossipy coverage of Hollywood's boudoirs, salons and saloons by Columnists Parsons and Hedda Hopper. Instead, he started covering Hollywood like any good, workaday reporter, still makes a daily round of the studios. Explains Johnson: "Hollywood is a City Hall beat, with bosoms...
When powerful Gossipist Hedda Hopper chatters to her 30 million newspaper readers, Hollywood's biggest bigwigs fear to talk back. Turning to its daily trade papers on Valentine's Day last week, Hollywood gawked at two full-page ads. Neatly encircled by a heart, the ads carried a rudely unsentimental message for Hedda from Actress Joan Bennett, wife of Producer Walter (Joan of Arc) Wanger...
...thought to get Hedda Hopper into a hissing match with a skunk, she had underestimated her fox. Baring her claws a bit, Hedda told a newsman: "I didn't think the Wangers could afford the ad ... I'm completely surprised but completely amused." To her readers she sweetly announced: "It was a good publicity skunk and beautifully behaved. I christened it Joan." Then she gave the animal to the James Masons, who had been looking for one "as a companion for their nine cats. Seems there is a great affinity between cats and skunks...
...Hopper did not hit his stride until he was past 40, and his matter-of-fact manner of putting paint on canvas still recalls his long apprenticeship as a hack illustrator; it has no dash, humor or surface charm. But a man who has taught himself to transcribe the shapes and weathers of a real world into pictures need not charm; he convinces...
...painter of the American scene, Hopper has only one peer, Buffalo's Charles Burchfield. Like Burchfield, Hopper can make even eyesores magnificent. Shorn of irrelevant details, stripped of sentimental gloss, dismantled and recast in his canvases, they become monuments to their time...