Awards
The danger of creating costumes for characters in a biography is that not all subjects dress in interesting ways.
Dec. 10, 2015
Movies
I did not know either Louella Parsons or Hedda Hopper, but as a newspaperman I had brief encounters with both, and so I was fascinated the other night by the TV movie of their competitive careers, “Malice in Wonderland.”
May 19, 1985
Television
The TV stories that Hollywood tells worst are the ones that Hollywood tells about itself.
May 10, 1985
Entertainment & Arts
“Hopper’s Wife”--the new opera by composer Stewart Wallace and librettist Michael Korie in which the wife of painter Edward Hopper is colorfully transmogrified into gossip columnist Hedda Hopper--is not for everyone.
June 16, 1997
Books
George Eells, biographer for such luminaries as gossip columnists Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper, songsmith Cole Porter and actress Mae West, has died in a New York hospital.
Jan. 4, 1995
The authors of the racy, free-associating ‘Hopper’s Wife’ are determined to get people thinking--even if they have to endure a bit of controversy to do it.
June 8, 1997
Long Beach company offers audiences a crash course of sorts.
June 12, 1997
Although divorce and adultery may seem odd subjects for a post-Valentine’s Day rental, stick with “The Women” for a range of views on love, most of them quite sensible, and a surprisingly happy ending, with a few tears and plenty of laughs along the way.
Feb. 16, 1995
In 1962, powerful Hollywood columnist Hedda Hopper held a strange and intimate dinner party, hosting rival movie stars Joan Crawford and Bette Davis for a truce meal at her home on Tropical Avenue in Beverly Hills, an elegant brick colonial Hopper winkingly called “the house that fear built.”
May 9, 2016
Anjelica Huston is preparing for her close-up as Norma Desmond in a reading of “Sunset Boulevard,” to be presented as a benefit for the Actors’ Fund of America at the Pantages Theatre on April 4.
Feb. 27, 2004