Mike Connolly

Reimagining Mike Connolly's Just for Variety and Rambling Reporter columns (1949-1966) in Tweet-speak. #RPPACK

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Aug. 16, 1955: @SirNoelCoward wants @LaurenBacall_ as his leading lady in BLITHE SPIRIT'S TV version & Estelle @Winwood as the fortune teller.

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Aug. 16, 1955: @MsTerryMoore signed for another @FlamingoVegas fling this fall.

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Aug. 16, 1955: Aaron Rosenberg's first choice for @BillBojangles--and just picture this kid doing Robinson's old stair dance: @MrSammyDavisJr.

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Aug. 15, 1957: Gant Gaither's inscription on This Dept.'s advance copy of @GRACEKELLY_MON: "Hope you enjoy our story of a young lady who would rather be a real-life Princess than a make-believe Queen."

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Aug. 15, 1957: Odds are that @GwenVerdon & @BobFosse will soon tie the knot.

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Aug. 15, 1957: @DorisDay_'s deal to join @PavINewman in LONG HOT SUMMER blew up over her monetary ultimatum: salary of $225,000 against 10% of the gross.

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Aug. 10, 1953: @MarleneDietrch wouldn't permit @MossHart & Kitty @CarlisleHart to fly back east from Vegas till she cleared it with her astrologer. Said the stargazer: "Okay for Moss, not for Kitty." So Kitty took sleeping pills & blacked out for the roughest ride of her life.

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Aug. 10, 1953: @TheMsMonroe & Jasper Park are attracting a record number of tourists who come to stare at the peaks.

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Aug. 10, 1953: Funniest story of '53: the one about @CherylCrawford & @tTrumanCapote's mother. Wish we could print it. [https://t.co/aMZMcAWp0H]

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Aug. 2, 1951: Does @MelTorme realize how many parties are going on in the house he rented to @MarthaRaye100?

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Aug. 2, 1951: Inside on @YulBBrynner, who's due at @20thCenturyFox_ momentarily: he'll arrive incognito, with a full head of hair.

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Aug. 1, 1963: The 67-room @CalNeva is adding an 8-story addition of 500 rooms by next year. Meanwhile, @Keely_Smith's @CalNeva opening had all 14 change girls in Keely wigs.

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Aug. 1, 1963: @Eddie_Fisher plays the @CalNeva Lodge for one week, but signed a 6-week lease for his residence period!

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Aug. 1, 1963: Puerto Vallarta is now the hottest tourist attraction with @BurtonAndTaylor & NIGHT OF THE IGUANA set to start. Inaccessible by road & only 1 Mexican airplane a day. @TennesseeWill & company had to hunt to find it.

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July 29, 1958: @Joanne_Woodward loves the idea of playing a 7-year-old girl in THE SOUND AND THE FURY, but..."But they'll location in Georgia, where I was born," Joanne carps, "and it's hot & sticky there, & why should I go back?"

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July 29, 1958: Their successful @EdSullivanShow co-stints aside, @EydieGorme & @Steve_Lawrence are loath to do a @Lunt_Fontanne on the bistro belt. They'd sooner saloon-star solo.

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July 28, 1960: @TIME is sessioning @MortSahlSays on a cover story covering the comic (Aug. 15 issue), "Our Next President."

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July 28, 1960: @ThDukeOfWindsor, who must need money again, signed to byline a @LondonExpress series, "My Page."

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July 28, 1960: @FrancesFaye bought @RudolfValentino's old piano, a Venetian (yes, that's its label) plastered with avocado-&-gold cherubs.

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July 28, 1960: Are you watching the way the "public images" of @_DebbieReynolds & @ElizabethTaylcr are changing? Riffle @Photoplay, @ModernScreen, et al, & dig Liz playing "little mother" while Debbie does Miss Sexpot.