Word: rona
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Every top Hollywood columnist needs a rival with whom to feud, and Haber has found one in Rona Barrett, a TV gossipist for the Metromedia stations. She watches the Barrett show with competitive pride. "Oh, that's all wrong," Haber will scoff at one of Rona's items. Or "I had that but didn't use it." In her success, Haber may face a danger. It was she who wrote in an unkind piece on Barbra Streisand: "Once you are a superstar, there are two choices open to you: you can become a bore or a monster...
...decadence is already setting in with proposed trips to the mock world of TV (The Love Machine by Jacqueline Susann), public relations (The Image Men by J. B. Priestley and The Fame Game by Rona Jaffe), not to mention high fashion (The Collection by Paul Montana) and publishing itself (The Center of the Action by Jerome Weid-man). Probably in this category, too, belongs Henry Sutton's The Voyeur, which he says is not about Hugh Hefner and the Playboy empire...
...CHERRY IN THE MARTINI by Rona Jaffe. 191 pages. Simon & Schuster...
Once upon a time Rona Jaffe made cream-cheese-and-jelly sandwiches out of saltines, library paste and red ink. Another greedy little girl ate them and told Mother, and Mother complained to the principal that Rona was a brat. Little Rona was then ten years of age. She has since more or less grown up into her tristful 30s and written a mildly brattish, mildly famous book called The Best of Everything (TIME, Sept. 15, 1958), which bore down rather heavily on a young girl's discovery that men leave much to be desired...
...does this prematurely autobiographical book, which reveals, among other things, that martinis don't come with cherries. Seems that when Rona was 13, she wrote a story in which a lonely lady dining at Schrafft's "stared morosely at the cherry in the martini." The book ends with the intelligence, given a whole page to itself, that "a martini has an olive"; although, to be more precise, it is more frequently encountered nowadays in the company of a twist of dry lemon peel, or probably just the stare of the lonely lady. The book remorselessly follows Rona...