Great Hollywood Wit A Glorious Cavalcade of

Hollywood high priest Gene Shalit gathers humor from more than thirty years in the entertainment industry as the insightful guide on this jocular trip through the land of the stars. Bringing together zinging lines from movie personas and the stars who play them, as well as backstage humor and off-screen snipes, Great Hollywood Wit is a treasure trove of celebrity humor and movie history.

Gene Shalit is one of America's most popular movie critics and anthologists of humor. It would be difficult to find another personality who has appeared on the same daily network TV show for thirty straight years, which is Shalit's still-continuing record on NBC's Today. He lives in Western Massachusetts with Fellini D. Katt, named to resonate with feline, film, and Shalit's friend and hero, the late Italian director.

Shalit prefers pasta to popcorn but advocates eating neither at the movies.

We've Got to Start Someplace, Why Not Here?	p. xiii
About the Title	p. xvii
Shooting Stars (Mostly at Each Other)	p. 1
Samuel Goldwyn, a King of Producers (The Lord of Apocrypha)	p. 15
Groucho Lays Down the Law ... yers	p. 26
Writers, Producers, & Directons Take On The Stars	p. 33
Jack Warner (OH, Brother!)	p. 41
What Really Happened at the Party? Actress Sets Record Stright [R]	p. 44
Y'Don't Say-I	p. 46
Mae West (The Era of Her Ways)	p. 57
Hollywood's Life Is the Spice of VARIETY	p. 63
Oscar Levant: More Than a Smattering of Wit, Music, Movies, and Pills	p. 66
Y'Don't Say-II	p. 72
George S. Kaufman (The Great Collaborator)	p. 84
The Sweet Bye and Bye	p. 87
Michael Curtig (A Director Beyond Words)	p. 90
Booray for Hollywood	p. 94
Harry Cohn (But Some There Were Who Liked Him)	p. 99
S*X, Hollywood's Favorite 3-Letter Word	p. 103
Men vs. Women vs. Men	p. 111
"Oh, Wad Some Power the Giftie Gie Us/To See Oursels as/thers See Us!"	p. 121
Y'Don't Say-III	p. 128
Terms of Endearment	p. 186
Woody Allen (The Nonpareil)	p. 191
"I Do Wish You Would Decline Alcohol." "Okay. Drink, Drank, Drunk."	p. 196
We Need One (at least) New Oscar Category	p. 201
Bibliography	p. 203
Can't Do It Alone	p. 211
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Great Hollywood Wit A Glorious Cavalcade of Hollywood Wisecracks, Zingers, Japes, Quips, Slings, Jests, Snappers, & Sass from the Stars

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