Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1960)

THAT’S HOLLYWOOD FOR VO l BY SIDNEY SKOLSKY I thought l had everything all straight, then Dodie. Connie and Inger confused me all over again. I wonder if Fabian would have made good if he had talent. . . . Know what Zsa Zsa Gabor is going to be like when she's older? Jolie! . . . On meeting Gina Lollobrigida for the first time, you're surprised to find she’s not as tall or as big as she appears on the screen. . . . Fm for letting Diane Varsi do what she wants to do. . . . Remember when Martin and Lewis were a team and everyone thought Lewis was the funny one? . . . Marilyn Monroe has a way of making all her imitators look phony. . . . Is it because Sandra Dee and Tuesday Weld were raised on different movie lots that they’re lots different? . . . Sophia Loren wears a man’s watch, and I’d say this is the only thing masculine about her. ... I wish someone would tell me if they ever saw Brigitte Bardot with her hair combed. . . . Difficult task: Going out on a date with Kim Novak unnoticed. . . . Hollywood is a place where Barrie Chase goes to the movies alone, paying her own freight. . . . I’m not going to try to solve what happened with Glenn Ford and Eleanor Powell. If you must know, hire Perry Mason ! . . . p Just when I knew Jeff Hunter from Tab Hunter, along came Connie Stevens and Dodie Stevens and Inger Stevens to con fuse me. . . . I’m for individuals like Simone Signoret. whom there’s no other individual like. . . . Bob Mitchum characterized a popular movie star as, “Deep down, he’s shallow. " Debbie Reynolds doesn't need an alarm clock. . . . Nick Adams should play “What Makes Sammy Run?’’ if and when it becomes a movie. ... You may not believe it, but I saw Buddy Bregman out alone. He wasn’t with May Britt or Stella Stevens or Judi Meredith or Susan Kohner. He was a-lone! . . . Don’t forget France Nuyen was a character long before she met Marlon Brando. In fact this may be why Marlon digs her. . . . Hollywood is a place where pillows and dreams are made of mink. ... I keep reading about James Darren but I’ve yet to see him in a picture. . . . “Love,” Mort Sahl mumbled to me. “is the delusion that one woman differs from another.” Now that Elvis is a civilian again don’t you feel the country is safer? . . . Pat Boone threw away those white sneakers and no one missed them: not even Pat Boone. ... I never believe for a moment that Efrem Zimbalist Jr. is a Private Eye. but I do accept Edd Byrnes’s Kookie. . . I admit I sometimes be come a bit confused about Margaret O’Brien, Joan O’Brien. Virginia O'Brien and Erin O’Brien. ... I wish they’d name all the young players after days of the week, a la Tuesday, and the older group after the months of the year. It might make it easier to keep tab on them. . . . The closest the screen has come to capturing Joan Collins as Joan Collins is in “Seven Thieves.” Someday she’ll get the right role and be a big star. . . . Hollywood is a place where you can read people like a book, but you can’t shut them up as easily. ... If Janet Leigh wanted to campaign, she could be a leading sexpot. . . . Isn’t it about time for Millie Perkins to be in another movie? ... I know a fellow who thinks the girl-next-door is different. He has the apartment next to Tina Louise. . . . I’m weary of TV programs that are The Wonderful World of somebody or An Evening With somebody. . . . Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward believe they have acting roles in “From the Terrace” because they play a married couple who are always quarreling. . . . I’ll wager it was a surprise to Doris Day when she discovered she was the typical American girl tvpe. . . . Googie Schwab about an {Continued I 4