Word: writer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lawyer (for the ex-wife), an antique Chippendale gag file, some cashmere underdrawers, an empty box at the Hollywood Bowl (it doesn't count if anybody ever sits in it), one friend (preferably getting the same salary he gets)." "A typewriter?" suggested Wilson. Kurnitz shuddered, explained that a writer always dictates...
Columnist Igor Cassini, who as Cholly Knickerbocker is Hearst's No. i know-it-all-&-tell-it-all on society, got scooped on a gossipy item involving his stylish wife, Austine Cassini, writer of society gossip for the Washington Times-Herald. In a rival paper, Cassini read a breathless, unconfirmed rumor that "Bootsie"-dubbed last year the Most Magnificent Doll Among American Newspaperwomen-had settled down in Reno to divorce...
...years, Hollywood partygoers have shrieked with laughter at the impromptu gags and satirical songs of Radio Writer Abe Burrows (TIME, Feb. 11, 1946). But his celebrated fans have kept Abe jealously to themselves, assuring him that the sentimental public would never appreciate his acidly unsentimental humor. Columnist Earl Wilson once gloated: "Only us hot shots get to hear him." Last week, anyone with a radio set could hear Abe do his stuff. CBS had given him a one-man sustaining spot (Sat. 10:30 p.m., E.D.T.). Beefy, 36-year-old Abe Burrows was so delighted at getting...
Divorced. James Hilton, 46, plumpish, British-born, best-selling novelist (Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Lost Horizon) turned Hollywood writer; by onetime Actress Galina Kopineck Hilton, 44 (who told the court: ". . . He could argue much better than I could"); after ten years, no children; in Los Angeles...
...picture leans a little too much on strained circumstance and unmitigated whimsy, but it has its moments. Shirley, in her climaxes of calf love, sees her hero in shining armor, putting on his helmet exactly as if it were a snap brim. Writer Sidney Sheldon has inserted a bit of adolescent dizzy-dialectic* that might even become epidemic. And the whole cast, notably Mr. Vallee, is obviously having a fine "time. So will most people, for The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer is good summer-weight comedy...