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Before a man could say "Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences," there was Ernie wearing a set of tails like the headwaiter at Romanoff's, up there on the stage getting an Oscar. But where was Rhoda? On Oscar night she was with him and gave him a big buss, but most of the time she was home. And home was a dumpy little house in Van Nuys, a neighborhood where not even an extra would want to live between pictures. Rhoda liked it there with all the other homebodies, and for a while Ernie liked...
Hollywood Restaurateur Mike Romanoff, the "Prince" of modern phonies, who has kept his origins and his early immigration run-ins with the U.S. suitably mixed up, turned drably legitimate. By voice vote, the U.S. Senate passed a bill declaring him a permanent U.S. resident as of December 1932. Said Mike: "I've lost my title. I feel sort of naked before mine enemies...
Will the results please the critics-or confirm a rival's description of Desilu as "a sausage factory"? Snort Producer Arnaz, embracing the code of Hollywood tycoons old and new: "I've never yet made a show for the 21 Club or the Romanoff's crowd, and I'm not going to start now. The viewers have to be able to identify themselves with the characters or you're going to lose them. I've always got the guy in Omaha in mind...
...Last year IRS put a line on the 1957 tax form for reporting reimbursed expenses, hastily gave taxpayers a year's moratorium after a howl rocked the very foundation of expense-accountland, sent martini glasses aquivering from Manhattan's gay "21" restaurant to Los Angeles' sporty Romanoff...
...squeezed in three interviews, a picture sitting, a lecture, a testimonial dinner, and a spot of home life in his East Side Manhattan apartment with his wife, Canadian Actress Suzanne Cloutier, and their two children. In between, he also cavorted through eight performances of his Ustinov-written Broadway comedy, Romanoff and Juliet, which was sagging at the box office when its run was bolstered by his spectacular TV performance as Dr. Samuel Johnson (TIME...