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hardly a new one but one you hear in Hollywood more often than anywhere else — "He's got the first dollar he ever earned."
Hollywood has always had a number of interesting words to call its women. Cut' rent at the moment to designate a doll who has passed through quite a few hands: "passion lips." For a girl, just any girl, the cats now say Mabel. Every girl is Mabel or a Mabel or, if plural, some Mabels.
One expression that has overflowed Hollywood but probably originated here and is still in wide usage: "Be my guest." This can be used almost anywhere. If you want to use a man's phone or sit down at his table at a nightclub or just hitch a lift in his car, it's "Be my guest" — usually with a faintly exasperated inflection. Everyone has heard the brushoff line: "Don't call us. We'll call you." Out here, though, it's "Call you tomorrow." Tomorrow never comes.
Table hopping is practiced everywhere. But in Hollywood there's a practice referred to as "people-hopping." A man who at a party or a bar jumps from person to person, always in quest of, never finding, the perfect companion is a "peoplehopper." Then there's a two-line ploy you hear quite a lot of. An agent, let us say, is trying to peddle a client to a producer. The dialogue goes like this:
AGENT: I think he's a great actor.
PRODUCER: When will you know definitely?
An expression for the star who has blossomed into the big time overnight: "Two years ago, she couldn't get arrested." One catch phrase which you hear all over now but especially here is the girl or boy gambit. "Jane Doe, girl idiot," you say. Or "John Doe, boy slob." Frequently, these insults are meant as rough terms of endearment. Another expression which, through Martin and Lewis, has gone coast to coast is: "That's my boy!" or "That's my girl!", usually meaning that you'll go along all the way with him or her.
The two most overworked words in the Hollywood lexicon are "this" and "great." "This" prefaces almost every sentence. "This — I've got to see." Or "This has got to go." Or "This, I refuse to believe" — with the emphasis always on "this." As
for the "great," the proper usage is the deprecatory "great" or "just great," a contradiction that disturbs nobody.
Then there's the situation when an actor tells you he's just been signed for another twelve pictures — or maybe for just one more. "Well, bully for you!" — with faintly mocking overtones. That'll cut him down to size.
"Would you help a poor blind man across the street?"
Portrait of Marilyn
OHE is, at the moment, the nation's number one sex thrill. And she's a very likable — is that the word I want exactly? — girl. One thing that rather astonished me about Marilyn Monroe is that the wives — those, at least, who have met the girl — like her just as much as their husbands, though in a somewhat different way.
"Everyone loves Marilyn," said Dinah Shore. "How can you help it. She's so honest."
But Marilyn doesn't think so. "I've had friends tell me: 'I had to defend you last night against the women.' So I say: 'What did the men say?' Then my friends tell me: 'The men just sit there, grinning a little.' That makes up for it — a little."
And she smiled. When Marilyn smiles, she smiles all over. Her lips part, her eyes