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...enterprising New York Journal-American tapped Italy's billowing Cinemactress Sophia (Too Bad She's Bad) Loren to guest-write a column for its vacationing Gossipist Dorothy Kilgallen. In carefully fractured English, Sophia (or a waggish ghost) ground out some profound pap. Of men and their sex drive: "[A man] is like a small boy in a restaurant. Can only eat a little bit, but wants the whole menu. He cries if somebody else eat a little too. But if nobody wishes canard sauce bigarrade, he don't wish either. Can be starving, still no canard sauce...
Even in their own ranks, Hearstlings managed to avoid sameness. Dorothy Kilgallen reported that "not once did the Prince look at his bride"; Bob Considine wrote that it was "only once." When the time came for the couple's responses, "both replied 'Oui' firmly . . . Miss Kelly in husky, throaty sincerity," according to the Herald Trib. But in the Times, "each assented with a virtually inaudible 'Oui.' " In any case, the ceremony lasted just 20 minutes (Considine), 16 minutes (Kilgallen), 40 minutes (Post), 15 "emotion-laden" minutes (New York News...
...close to tears" in the Post, but for the U.P., "uncontrolled tears coursed down [her] cheeks." How did she make her responses this time? "Je veux (I will)," said the U.P. "Oui," said the Post. "Oui, Monseigneur," said the Times. "Oui, je veux," said the Herald Trib. Finessed Newshen Kilgallen: "[It was] barely audible...
...book is hard to read on any other terms than Miss Kilgallen's. Even Bernstein's syntax makes his motives suspect. For the author, age regression is a "stunning spectacle." Speaking of his "opposition," he blithely remarks, "Men of science are, after all, human beings, basically the same kind of men who opposed Galileo, Mesmer, Newton...
...seriocomics like Arlene Francis and Bill Cullen may well have the toughest jobs of all, for they are expected to contribute to the evening's gaiety as well as keep the game going steadily forward. Says John Daly: "Arlene plays it by ear, and more boldly than Dottie Kilgallen; therefore she misses more often." Bill Cullen of I've Got a Secret underlines some of the hazards of the seriocomic: "I'm always thinking automatically of what question I can ask in case a joke falls flat. But even when jokes go over...