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Hollywood columnist Louella Parsons called it a " smash patriotic hit " and most other critics agreed, seeing that audiences left the theaters with " an enthusiasm for democracy " and " in a glow of patriotism.
Opened by Charlton Heston and introduced by Frank Sinatra, the ceremony was attended by so many Hollywood stars — said to be more than for any event in history — that one columnist wrote at the time that a bomb in the dining room would have brought about the end of the movie industry.
** Hedda Hopper's Hollywood debuts on radio with Hollywood gossip columnist Hedda Hopper as host ( the show runs until 1951, making Hopper a powerful figure in the Hollywood elite ).
She later told Hollywood columnist Hedda Hopper, " Mogambo had three things that interested me.
It was based on his own experiences working as an assistant to Irving Hoffman, a prominent New York press agent and columnist for The Hollywood Reporter.
* Hedda Hopper — Hollywood gossip columnist
The character of Paula Paris, an agoraphobic gossip columnist, is linked romantically with Ellery in novels and short stories during the Hollywood period, but does not appear in the radio series or films, and soon vanished from the books.
Louella Parsons was also hired as a screenwriter and went on to be a Hollywood gossip columnist.
Steinbeck's contemporary, Nathanael West's two most famous short novels, Miss Lonelyhearts, which plumbs the life of its eponymous antihero, a reluctant ( and, to comic effect, male ) advice columnist, and the effects the tragic letters exert on it, and The Day of the Locust, which introduces a cast of Hollywood stereotypes and explores the ironies of the movies, have come to be avowed classics of American literature.
Back in America, Scott went to Hollywood where he tried screenwriting and began a relationship with the movie columnist Sheilah Graham.
In 1941 Pegler became the first columnist ever to win a Pulitzer Prize for reporting, for his work in exposing racketeering in Hollywood labor unions, focusing on the criminal career of William Morris Bioff.
Hollywood biographer Lawrence J. Quirk claimed Mike Connolly ( a gay gossip columnist for the Hollywood Reporter from 1951 to 1966 ) " would put the make on the most prominent young actors, including Robert Francis, Guy Madison, Anthony Perkins, Nick Adams, and James Dean.
With the disease in remission, she went back to work, becoming a syndicated Hollywood columnist for Hearst.
Rona Barrett began as a Hollywood gossip columnist in 1957, duplicating her print tactics on television by the mid-1960s.
Secondly, he attempts to hang himself from a rafter in an upstairs bedroom, only to fall through the floor, landing on a poisonous Hollywood gossip columnist standing in the living room below.
* Loretta Swit as Polly Reed, a Hollywood gossip columnist
The season three clipshow episode " The Straight Poop " also made fun of the episode delays by having Hollywood columnist Rona Barrett drop by the Blue Moon Detective Agency to figure out why David and Maddie couldn't get along, as the premise to set up the clips from earlier episodes.
A Hollywood gossip columnist interviewed Young because she was claiming to be ill for weeks and needed rest.
Later she told Hollywood gossip columnist Louella Parsons that she had " adopted " two children and several weeks later, told Parsons that she had to give one of the children back to its biological mother.
According to writer / columnist Mark Evanier, comedian Tim Powers reported that a fan left a cream pie on Sales ' Hollywood Walk of Fame star.
Louella Parsons, also hired by Spoor as a screenwriter, later became a famous Hollywood gossip columnist.
Among her recurring characters on Laugh-In were Busy-Buzzi, Hollywood gossip columnist ; Doris Sidebottom, a cocktail-lounge habituée who always got riotously smashed with husband Leonard ( Dick Martin ); and one of the Burbank Airlines Stewardesses, teaming with Debbie Reynolds as two totally inconsiderate flight attendants.

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Only George Santayana seemed to understand and appreciate the film when he wrote: `` Miss Poitrine has perpetrated the most eloquent argument for the Protestant faith yet unleashed by Hollywood ''.
However, Entertainment Weekly gave the film a " C +" rating and wrote, " This spoofy cast of thousands looks a little too much like a crew of bland Hollywood extras.
The " H-H-L " team impressed Hollywood with its success ; as Life wrote in 1957, " fter the independent production of a baker's dozen of pictures it has yet to have its first flop ... ( They were also good pictures.
The scholar Kenneth Billingsley found that Trumbo wrote The Daily Worker about films which he said communist influence in Hollywood had prevented from being made: among them were proposed adaptations of Arthur Koestler's anti-totalitarian works Darkness at Noon and The Yogi and the Commissar, which described the rise of communism in Russia.
A number of Hollywood composers wrote the background music, including Alfred Newman and Russian-born composer Dimitri Tiomkin.
Film critic David Thomson wrote of Hawks in The New Biographical Dictionary of Film " Far from the the meek purveyor of Hollywood forms, he always chose to turn them upside down, To Have and Have Not and The Big Sleep, ostensibly an adventure and a thriller, are really love stories.
He subsequently wrote an article " I'm No Communist " in the March 1948 edition of Photoplay magazine in which he distanced himself from The Hollywood Ten to counter the negative publicity that resulted from his appearance.
Marrow decided to adopt Schoolly D's style, and wrote the lyrics to his first gangsta rap song, " 6 in the Mornin '", in his Hollywood apartment, and created a minimal beat with a Roland TR-808.
After being inspired by a poster featuring a local, Hollywood burlesque performer Virginia Lee Hicks, who was then performing as Jennie Lee, the " Bazoom Girl ", at the New Follies Burlesk at 548 S. Main St, Los Angeles, Ginsburg wrote a tribute song " Jennie Lee " that he brought to Berry and Torrence.
Styne established his own dance band, which brought him to the notice of Hollywood, where he was championed by Frank Sinatra and where he began a collaboration with lyricist Sammy Cahn, with whom he wrote many songs for the movies, including " It's Been a Long, Long Time " (# 1 for 3 weeks for Harry James and His Orchestra in 1945 ), " Five Minutes More ," and the Oscar-winning " Three Coins in the Fountain ".
Carina Chocano of The Los Angeles Times wrote, " Cruz, who has remarked that in Hollywood she's rarely allowed to be anything more than pretty, instills her with an awesome resoluteness and strength of character.
* Twigs ( 1971 ), play by George Furth, wrote song Hollywood and Vine ( Music by Stephen Sondheim and lyrics by George Furth )
He wrote, " This is more of a message film than a noir thriller, but has been classified by most cinephiles in the noir category ... J. Roy Hunt, the 70-year-old cinematographer, who goes back to the earliest days of Hollywood, shot the film using the style of low-key lighting, providing dark shots of Monty, contrasted with ghost-like shots of Mary Mitchell ( Jacqueline ) as she angelically goes to help her troubled husband Arthur.
He wrote a treatment combined with elements of a shooting script and this generated a lot of interest in Hollywood.
William Wilkerson of The Hollywood Reporter wrote: " This sterling performer has finally been given an opportunity to show an ability that has been boxed in by gangster roles ... film has introduced Mr. Tracy as one of the screen's best performers ".
Though it didn't do well commercially ( many critics felt Burton, at 33, looked too old for the part ) and Burton's Hollywood box office aura seemed to be diminishing, Burton was proud of the effort and wrote to his mentor Philip Burton, " I promise you that there isn't a shred of self-pity in my performance.
He was the brother of Hollywood actor Ernest Cossart and father of the composer and conductor Imogen Holst, who wrote a biography of him in 1938.
Oscar Levant wrote that Newman initially was hesitant to leave New York for Hollywood: " Too close to the cake ," he reported him saying, " Also, no place to study.
Hedda Hopper wrote that Colbert placed her career " ahead of everything save possibly her marriage ", and described her as the " smartest and canniest " of Hollywood actresses, with a strong sense of what was best for her, and a " deep rooted desire to be in shape, efficient and under control ".
When it received lukewarm reviews and failed at the box office, Hollywood columnists wrote that Davis's comeback had petered out, and an Academy Award nomination for The Star ( 1952 ) did not halt her decline.
The Hollywood Reporter wrote of mannerisms " that you'd expect to find in a nightclub impersonation of ", while the London critic, Richard Winninger, wrote, " Miss Davis, with more say than most stars as to what films she makes, seems to have lapsed into egoism.
After her parents divorced, Rogers stayed with her grandparents while her mother wrote scripts for two years in Hollywood.
He wrote " If you wanted to sum up the relative position of Britain and America in this century – the ebbing away of the pink areas of the map, the fading of national self-confidence as Uncle Sam proceeded to colonise the globe with fizzy drinks and Hollywood – you could do it like this: they had Star Trek, we had Blake's 7 ... No ' boldly going ' here: instead, we got the boot stamping on a human face which George Orwell offered as a vision of humanity's future in Nineteen Eighty-Four.

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