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Lanny journeys to the West Coast, where Louella Parsons, floored by his dash and balderdash, gasps: "Somebody ought to give him a screen test." Hearst begs him to accept $50,000 a year for some random reportage. He has another bedside chat with the President (Lanny edits one of F.D.R.'s speeches, in which he invents and inserts the phrase "arsenal of democracy"), and is off to see Adolf Hitler chew a rug. Göring smuggle a swallow of dope, and "Rudi" Hess resolve to fly to England...
...himself goes underground." To fasten the hoax on posterity, Reichsbildberichterstatter (Photo graphic Reporter for the Reich) Heinrich Hoffmann would "be on hand to film Hitler's last moment on the battlefield."* -Whose 82nd birthday was celebrated this week at a San Simeon party attended by sons and satellites (Louella Parsons...
Charlie gets away with a candid vein of comment which is unprecedented in radio. Via a small-boy character (which helps), Bergen manages a titillating form of malice-without-malice. To judge by his audiences, it is all hugely satisfying to the U.S. public. Charlie called Gossipist Louella Parsons an "old blabbermouth," while confiding in an aside that "everything will be all over town tomorrow." He referred to Emily Post as "a vulture for culture" and dismissed her with: "It's been a charming evening. By the way, Miss Emily, you don't have a toothpick...
Take It Easy. Her legend is prodigious. Once she went to Agua Caliente with Columnist Louella Parsons and Husband Docky Martin. In the gents' room of a Caliente tavern, Docky became involved with several brawling Mexicans. Miss Parsons, hearing the rumpus, asked Florabel what to do. "Hell," shouted Florabel, "rescue the poor bastard!" Forthwith, she dived into the room, grabbed Docky by the arm and hauled...
With irreverent hilarity, Author Smith (Low Man on a Totem Pole) tells how he became a Hollywood writer and of his adventures thereafter. Typical tale: how an enraged agent bit Louella Parsons' arm at a dinner party...