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...advice, O'Hara proceeded to administer a few verbal thunks to Elizabeth Taylor, 33, who had gotten sore in 1959 about having to star in a movie version of his novel Butterfield 8. The objection wasn't literary, said O'Hara, it was just that M-G-M insisted on her doing Butterfield for $150,000 when she wanted to get started on Cleopatra for $2,000,-000. Her basic mistake, the column went on, was giving "the remarkable opinion that the heroine of my novel was 'practically a prostitute.' Bear in mind...
TUESDAY MOVIE SPECIAL (NBC, 8:30-11 p.m.). Never So Few (MGM, 1959) stars Frank Sinatra as a World War II captain in North Burma. To see how M-G-M gets a marble-tub bath scene by Gina Lollobrigida into the film is one reason...
...question of about the same importance now confronts the world of letters: Who wrote the novel that contains this gooey hooey? Jean Harlow wrote it, with the help of an M-G-M journeyman. Completed before Harlow's death, the manuscript has been hidden away for the past 32 years. Published last week in the midst of a harrowing Harlow revival, Today Is Tonight (Grove Press; $5) reads like the first crude script of a Harlow movie-happy but sappy, and crammed with such insights as: "Funny that a man should want you tanned all over...
...good." Proving him wrong, David left MGM, became a $104,000-a-year boss at Paramount-and married the crown princess herself, L. B. Mayer's daughter Irene. L.B. imperiously refused to greet Selznick at the wedding, though when David at 30 returned to the M-G-M fold, wags quipped, "The son-in-law also rises." It was a canard that was not buried until Mayer's 1957 will, in which L.B. noted that Son-in-Law Selznick, unlike other members of the Mayer clan, "had never requested my assistance...
HERMAN'S HERMITS ON TOUR (M-G-M). "The worst singer in the world can sing our songs," says Herman, cheerfully explaining away such hits as the million-selling Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter. The second collection of what Herman correctly calls "the simplest music there is" includes his teen love ditties, Silhouettes and Can't You Hear My Heartbeat, as well as I'm Henry VIII, I Am ("I got married to the widow next door. She's been married seven times before...