Word: louella
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...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 feel some resentment, and frequently express it in their columns...
...fearful few on the higher ledges kick savagely at those who struggle near; the weary majority simply hang on, motionless as skewered lepidoptera. Climbers tumble off daily into a shadowed limbo below, to live out grey lives without Cadillacs, swimming pools or cell space in the brain of Louella O. Parsons. But television's Jack Randolph Webb, 33. has never faltered or looked down; he has gone up, up, up, limber as an Indian brave...
Another good reason is the completely ridiculous compilation of "interesting and out-of-the-way anecdotes about the Yale-Harvard series." Applying Louella Parsons' "funny little happenings" technique to football side-lights, the anonymous author writes quite an amusing three columns...
...Vegas' raucously elegant Sands Hotel last week more than two dozen Hollywood newspaper, magazine, TV and radio reporters gathered for an event: the wedding of Cinemactress Rita Hayworth and Crooner Dick Haymes, each headed altarward for the fourth time. Only Columnists Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper were missing. Louella, who traveled half way around the world four years ago to be at Rita's side when she married Aly Khan at Cannes, this time telephoned her blessings but was "too busy" to attend; Hollywood assumed that she had the word that Rita's studio, Columbia Pictures...