Show Business: Marty in Hollywood

So waddayawanna talk about tonight? Kim Novak's latest? Naw. Sam Goldwyn is 76? Wish him a happy birthday, but what's more to talk about? Lolly Parsons is in Hawaii? Let her stay out there and eat pineapples. Waddayawanna talk about? Tell you what, let's talk about this guy Ernie.

This guy Ernie (as many a conversation in Hollywood steam rooms and Gibson shops made clear last week) was just an ordinary guy from Connecticut 15 years ago, serving a long hitch in the Navy. One day he was laid up in the hospital in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and right away he...

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