Sparkle, Neely, sparkle! With Tony Randall and Sue Oakland on the panel. Note Arlene in polka dots and a rare heartfelt and non-insulting tribute from Bennett to John!
I'm so sick of people trashing Jackie. If you don't like Valley Of The Dolls, that's fine, don't read it, and don't watch this clip. I can guarantee none of you were lucky enough to know her in person, and neither was I. All I can say is that I enjoyed the book, and think it's ridiculous to insult a woman who made something of herself, and died of cancer. She entertained, was accessible, and worked hard. I can also guarantee that none of you insulting her wrote a bestseller. Respect.
For some reason I thought back to my youth tonight and to Jacqueline Susann. I'm an almost 62 year old Australian. Though never a dog lover I recalled a wonderful book 'every night Josephine ' about Ms Susanns poodle which I adored. Just got better with Valley of the dolls, Once is not enough and the Love Machine. Like Jacqueline my son is severely autistic, so I can relate with her heartache and struggles. Sadly great woman gone to soon by that horrific disease cancer
She was a wonderful lady. I've had a crush on her for over 50 years and have admiration and respect for the character she possessed . And she was funny. And kind. And forgot nothing. And cared. And had class. I found out she had dies just before turning off the t.v. sunday night just before midnight. There was a posed photo of her ( this kind of thing never happened on t.v. then, stations went off the air early} and it was a special announcement that so sad to report that author Jacqueline Susann had passed away and that she will be missed. I was stunned. I went quietly to bed so as not to wake anyone shut the door under the blankets and covered my head with a pillow and well... .
Jacqueline looked and sounded perfectly acceptable to me. People, people. Enough with the horrible remarks. Are you jealous because YOU didn't a novel that had been on the best seller list for a year?!
I'm with you! It just might be my favorite program of all time. I'm still so angry at GSN for yanking it off the air when they did..at the time I was perhaps two or three months away from catching up with the entire run of the series! So frustrating.
@ZarahLean good ol' capote. i think he also referred to kerouac's output as type-writing rather than writing, and suggested that flannery o'connor should be beheaded in shea stadium.
@ZarahLean PS- The Valley of the Dolls film turned out so badly that it is often said to have ended Patty Duke' s once promising star power. Ms. Duke has said she had to fight the urge to attack anyone who mentioned the film to her! I loved the reviewer who said "This is about girls who take pills. But what pills can they give me to sit through this film?" and "Patty Duke is shown in an alley with garbage cans- is she looking for a print of this film?"
@ZarahLean interesting stuff about merman. never knew. did she have any relationship with judy garland. all i know is that judy was supposed to be in the movie and then cuz of one of the judy things judy was doing, she couldn't be...or got fired? (i bet you know.)
@Dottiecurran Are you referring to "Stepin Fetchit" (an actual stage name, properly capitalized)? And, once again, I have not voiced any opinion, pro or con, about the literary merits of "Valley of the Dolls." That would appear to be your cross to bear, not mine.
I would imagine at this point the panelists and host knew the show was cancelled. It seems like they compliment each other more than usual and are a bit melancholy in early-mid- 1967
@ZarahLean You claim Jacqueline Susann wrote a homophobic book and did a "homophobic" imitation of Capote; yet you use the term "queen" when referring to Tony Randall in a derogatory manner, then manage to take a swipe at poor, "low class" Arlene Francis? Having a bad day?
@jimmysudar I can repeat what I have heard: Judy Garland was hired to play the Helen Lawson part for the film (being too old to play the Neely O'Hara part, who was rumored to be a young Judy Garland !). Garland had severe drug problems (which killed her not long after) and she also did not want to play a mean, evil type part. The Lawson part called for a mean, evil witch. Garland was fired after she showed up stoned and refused direction to stop making Lawson nice.
@ZarahLean Moreover, your use of the term "queen" to describe Randall, who never publicly defined himself as gay or bisexual, and in a very dismissive, judgmental manner at that, is subtle homophobia of another stripe. You are not only very angry (at what, I have no idea -- brash women who make a mint writing lurid potboilers?), but a hypocrite. Having just pulled up all of the comments, I see you have been banging the anti-Susann drum for over a year. For God's sake, get a new hobby!
Thanks Dottie and PeterJon. Someone brought up Richard Blackwell's putting Jack-o-lantern Susann on his worst dressed list. He said "She writes love, she talks love, she looks like a divorce". I read his book "From Rags to Bitches" and it was much better than the smut Susann put out!
@ZarahLean thanks for the info. i'm not surprised about judy showing up stoned, of course, but refusing to stop making the helen lawson character nice is news to me and quite interesting. she certainly was a complicated woman....and maybe the entertainer of the first half of the 20th century (with michael taking that honor for the second half.) i appreciate your responding. take care.
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." - Samuel Johnson. And in his seventies, Tony Randall claimed paternity of two children after wedding a woman fifty years younger than he. Perhaps you're just prejudiced against bisexuals and/or Jews ("aka what...Rosenthal?").
@ZarahLean Yes, I thought the book was complete trash but the movie was even worse. A howl. Like many people, I screamed with laughter during the dramatic parts seeing it. She tried to be accepted as a serious writer but was rejected at every turn. Not only by Capote and Vidal, she got into a shouting match on John Simon's show. (he said, correctly "Aren't you just putting out books that are cheap smut to make money?")
Another favorite review of "Valley of the Dolls": "It's about women who take pills. What kind of pill can they give me to sit through this trash?" Someone once said an author should write what they know: in Susann's case it is clear: drugs, cancer , lies, hatred of one's own bisexuality, the cut throat entertainment world, cheap fake marriages, etc.
@Dottiecurran Thank you Dottiecurran for your support. This comment is for you, I have no interest in the one you are engaging as he has written just to insult me. Books like "Valley of the Dolls" not only glamourize drugs but promote the inequality of homosexuals. They can not be excused based on the era. I do think there is a certain type of self hating Gay man who sees "camp" in something like that and loves it. Gods are made of 'stars". To each his own. But certainly Susann isn't my God.
@Dottiecurran Do you mean "lead" to violence? I will admit to being bald, and "ugly" is a matter of opinion; but I DO take umbrage to "self-hating queen,"; I am rarely "silly"; and I am confused by the oxymoron of "trash literature."
@ZarahLean You never address any issues which are placed before you, but merely spout the same tired rhetoric. Also, your entire argument is moot, since I don't think anyone ever deigned to rate Susann's talent anywhere near that of Capote (and when did Gore get involved in this debacle?). She was a ballsy dame who desperately wanted success and was ruthless and dogged in achieving it. If you don't care for her methods, or her results, that's your prerogative.
@jimmysudar Yes, Susann actually doesn't look bad here, in my opinion. This was after the time she had a crush on Ethel Merman (of all people!) and was pounding on her door. Merman called the police on her. Susann got her back by letting everyone know the Helen Lawson in Valley of the Dolls was Ethel in reality. Susann was a great deal of fun and made money but a great writer-NO. Her books were all just trash. "Once is more than enough" was the review of "Once is Not Enough".
@BeemerryNYC "She looks like a truck driver in drag" and " I killed Jack-o-lantern Susann. Her cancer was in remission till she saw me on the Tonight Show" Mean, yes. But not as mean as she was
@stacia99 I think you have lost your mind. But feel free to enjoy the great works of Jack o lantern Susann and I'll continue to enjoy the great literature of her homosexual enemies. I agree with the reviewer who, after forcing himself to read "Once is Not Enough" wrote "Once is more than enough!" . After "Valley" was released on film "It ends with Patty Duke in garbage cans. Maybe she is looking for a print of the film?"
And get this 'straight" fans of the long dead Susann who institutionalized her own son and then lied about him: every time you engage me, I will be back with another barb against this cheap huckster. She is over, just like this show. But its payback time.
@BeemerryNYC I guess you are welcomed to have Jack Susann as your favorite author and I'll admire the great works of Truman Capote. I disagree that he was "jealous" when Susann's books were clearly along the line of the supermarket check out counter. Susann had attacked him first with a homophobic imitation. And, wonderfully, Capote got his revenge. The truck driver in drag remark was priceless. He aplogized to truck drivers.
@peterjon211 I'll take that advice now Peterjon211. I've read Valley, The Love Machine and Once is Not Enough. Jack died before churning out very much more. These books are like movies so bad that you can't turn away from because you are wondering how low the sewer can go. I've also read that she was either a closeted Lesbian or bi-sexual who was very uncomfortable. Vicious homophobia is often found in her writing. No wonder writers like T. Capote hated her.
Nothing you write here will change the truth. Mr. Capote was a great writer, Jack-o-lantern Susann was not. I loved Mr. Capote's answer to a lawyer's letter Susann had him sent. He wrote "It's so well written. Too bad your client doesn't have that ability!". Everything about Susann was a lie: her age ("I fear turning 40" when she was 44) , her religion (she was Jewish claiming to be Catholic) and her closet lesbianism (sought an affair with Ethel Merman while railing against homosexuals) A fake
Once again, because it bothers the idol of clay worshippers here so: In the words of the great, late Truman Capote when asked about her : "Please! She looks like a truck driver in drag. Wears sleazy gowns and wigs" When told Susann was going to sue: "It will be an easy lawsuit to win. I hope she does sue. All I have to do is pay a bunch of truck drivers to appear in court in drag and everyone will agree with me" Upon her death "Ding dong the witch is dead. I killed her!"
Have you noticed she has trouble breathing here? Even sitting down? I know she had cancer and a masectomy, but she took loads of other drugs, too. pills to sleep, pills to wake up.
Her only "talent" was knowing how to turn sordid smut scenes into a cash box. What stikes me (and I agree with Zarah) is how un real all the people are on this show. Sort of like a sewer forman pretending to be George V. And i also agree that vicous homophobia kills, it can not be excused because of the "times". As mr Blackwell once said of Jack off Susan "Writes love, looks like a divorce!"
Either you would have to be a woman or have money. Let's face it, she was a fake who wrote trash to get money. A Jew who claimed she was Catholic. Lied about her age, too. Nothing about her was real, even her tits. Not that she is the only fraud on this show...Tony Randall aka what...Rosenthal? was about as straight as old Jacqueline. Truman Capote said it best: "She looks like a truck driver in drag who wears sleazy gowns and wigs" After he made an apology to truck drivers.
I would imagine that John, Arlene and Bennett were almost ashamed to be associated with this hack writer. Talk about pulp fiction! The show looks creaky here--society had radically changed. Think back if you're old enough--1967! Free love, Vietnam trauma and a completely changing society. John looks old, tired and, perhaps, tired of the show.
@tjbnyc76 I'll keep telling the truth regardless of how angry that makes you. Susann wrote garbage and it was full of homophobia. I could care less about Randall or Rosenberg or whatever his/her real name was. A bunch of fakes. I must admit that Susann was able to make alot of money on her National Equirer style "books" but that will never put her in the class of a Capote or Vidal.
The moral of the story is folks....trash sells. I guess many people think that Jacqueline Susan writes classy trash. Michey Spillane writes trash and it sells. Serious intellectual books aren't always bestsellers and it is just a fact of life, everybody.
@ZarahLean You're allying yourself with a racist and a homophobe simply because she hates Jacqueline Susann as much as you do, you slam people on this show based on class and sexuality, and you seem so fond of drag and gender "jokes"... it's not particularly convincing when you claim you dislike Susann because she was homophobic.
Yeah, well, The National Enquirer sells, too. Great literature it is not. Truman Capote was one of the greats.Getting back to this show, it is interesting how both Arlene Francis and Susann seem to have taken diction lessons to cover their low class sounding accents. I'm sorry, I love Arlene Francis but she sounds like Sadie Fart trying to be Queen Victoria! And that queen Tony Randall! Please! What a bunch of fakes, the whole lot of them.
'Have you written an Absolute Lollapalooza of a Best Seller?"
YES!!!!
It wasn't what she wrote, but how wrote that put her ahead of her time.
I'm so sick of people trashing Jackie. If you don't like Valley Of The Dolls, that's fine, don't read it, and don't watch this clip. I can guarantee none of you were lucky enough to know her in person, and neither was I. All I can say is that I enjoyed the book, and think it's ridiculous to insult a woman who made something of herself, and died of cancer. She entertained, was accessible, and worked hard. I can also guarantee that none of you insulting her wrote a bestseller. Respect.
I'm in awe of her. I tried to imagine myself being an author, but I doubt I'd have the patience to write one or two chapters, let alone a whole novel!
For some reason I thought back to my youth tonight and to Jacqueline Susann. I'm an almost 62 year old Australian. Though never a dog lover I recalled a wonderful book 'every night Josephine ' about Ms Susanns poodle which I adored. Just got better with Valley of the dolls, Once is not enough and the Love Machine. Like Jacqueline my son is severely autistic, so I can relate with her heartache and struggles. Sadly great woman gone to soon by that horrific disease cancer
Well said
Well said!
Her books were a fun read. The 50 shades of grey of her day.
She was a wonderful lady. I've had a crush on her for over 50 years and have admiration and respect for the character she possessed . And she was funny. And kind. And forgot nothing. And cared. And had class. I found out she had dies just before turning off the t.v. sunday night just before midnight. There was a posed photo of her ( this kind of thing never happened on t.v. then, stations went off the air early} and it was a special announcement that so sad to report that author Jacqueline Susann had passed away and that she will be missed. I was stunned. I went quietly to bed so as not to wake anyone shut the door under the blankets and covered my head with a pillow and well... .
Arlene Francis had more charisma than the entire cast combined.... always.
I love What's My Line! It's so much better than anything on TV these days.
Jackie Susann might be the most charming person whom I have interviewed....
LOOOVE HER! Thank you for this!
Jacqueline Susann was a great writer.
Rip Jaqueline Susann
Jacqueline looked and sounded perfectly acceptable to me. People, people. Enough with the horrible remarks. Are you jealous because YOU didn't a novel that had been on the best seller list for a year?!
I'm with you! It just might be my favorite program of all time. I'm still so angry at GSN for yanking it off the air when they did..at the time I was perhaps two or three months away from catching up with the entire run of the series! So frustrating.
I loved the book Valley of the Dolls so much that even the movie wasn't as bad as it actually was.
Airdate March 5th, 1967.
jackie susann is fabulous!!!!
@ZarahLean good ol' capote. i think he also referred to kerouac's output as type-writing rather than writing, and suggested that flannery o'connor should be beheaded in shea stadium.
I dont know what id do without whats my line!! Thank you for posting :)
I miss you so, Ms. Susann
1967. Sue Oakland (whose "day job" was delivering editorials on WCBS TV in New York) made five appearances that year as a panelist.
@ZarahLean PS- The Valley of the Dolls film turned out so badly that it is often said to have ended Patty Duke' s once promising star power. Ms. Duke has said she had to fight the urge to attack anyone who mentioned the film to her! I loved the reviewer who said "This is about girls who take pills. But what pills can they give me to sit through this film?" and "Patty Duke is shown in an alley with garbage cans- is she looking for a print of this film?"
Guess you just guess at the dates of these shows? Not even the year is listed.??
What's My Line? always gets my highest rating!
@ZarahLean interesting stuff about merman. never knew. did she have any relationship with judy garland. all i know is that judy was supposed to be in the movie and then cuz of one of the judy things judy was doing, she couldn't be...or got fired? (i bet you know.)
@Dottiecurran Are you referring to "Stepin Fetchit" (an actual stage name, properly capitalized)? And, once again, I have not voiced any opinion, pro or con, about the literary merits of "Valley of the Dolls." That would appear to be your cross to bear, not mine.
I'm sure Ms. Susann cried about her limitations all the way to the bank.
Wonder what she'd have thought of "Sex and the City"...
She'd probably would've made a guest appearance.
I would imagine at this point the panelists and host knew the show was cancelled. It seems like they compliment each other more than usual and are a bit melancholy in early-mid- 1967
@ZarahLean You claim Jacqueline Susann wrote a homophobic book and did a "homophobic" imitation of Capote; yet you use the term "queen" when referring to Tony Randall in a derogatory manner, then manage to take a swipe at poor, "low class" Arlene Francis? Having a bad day?
@jimmysudar I can repeat what I have heard: Judy Garland was hired to play the Helen Lawson part for the film (being too old to play the Neely O'Hara part, who was rumored to be a young Judy Garland !). Garland had severe drug problems (which killed her not long after) and she also did not want to play a mean, evil type part. The Lawson part called for a mean, evil witch. Garland was fired after she showed up stoned and refused direction to stop making Lawson nice.
What year was this?
@Dottiecurran Thanks Dottie! I loved your comments. Sounds like our bookworm friend isn't so merry after all, eh?
@ZarahLean Moreover, your use of the term "queen" to describe Randall, who never publicly defined himself as gay or bisexual, and in a very dismissive, judgmental manner at that, is subtle homophobia of another stripe. You are not only very angry (at what, I have no idea -- brash women who make a mint writing lurid potboilers?), but a hypocrite. Having just pulled up all of the comments, I see you have been banging the anti-Susann drum for over a year. For God's sake, get a new hobby!
@VenusBlue4u Early 1967 I believe.
Truman Capote (who could write) said on TV that Jacqueline Susann "looks like a truck driver in drag" and then apologized to truck drivers.
Thanks Dottie and PeterJon. Someone brought up Richard Blackwell's putting Jack-o-lantern Susann on his worst dressed list. He said "She writes love, she talks love, she looks like a divorce". I read his book "From Rags to Bitches" and it was much better than the smut Susann put out!
Once again Bennett Cerf proves how snotty and impatient he can be if the mystery guest doesn't answer his question right away.
@ZarahLean thanks for the info. i'm not surprised about judy showing up stoned, of course, but refusing to stop making the helen lawson character nice is news to me and quite interesting. she certainly was a complicated woman....and maybe the entertainer of the first half of the 20th century (with michael taking that honor for the second half.) i appreciate your responding. take care.
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." - Samuel Johnson.
And in his seventies, Tony Randall claimed paternity of two children after wedding a woman fifty years younger than he. Perhaps you're just prejudiced against bisexuals and/or Jews ("aka what...Rosenthal?").
@ZarahLean Yes, I thought the book was complete trash but the movie was even worse. A howl. Like many people, I screamed with laughter during the dramatic parts seeing it. She tried to be accepted as a serious writer but was rejected at every turn. Not only by Capote and Vidal, she got into a shouting match on John Simon's show. (he said, correctly "Aren't you just putting out books that are cheap smut to make money?")
@roots66 Wonder what ever happened to Sue Oakland, if that is even her last name now.
Another favorite review of "Valley of the Dolls": "It's about women who take pills. What kind of pill can they give me to sit through this trash?" Someone once said an author should write what they know: in Susann's case it is clear: drugs, cancer , lies, hatred of one's own bisexuality, the cut throat entertainment world, cheap fake marriages, etc.
*cutthroat
@Dottiecurran Thank you Dottiecurran for your support. This comment is for you, I have no interest in the one you are engaging as he has written just to insult me. Books like "Valley of the Dolls" not only glamourize drugs but promote the inequality of homosexuals. They can not be excused based on the era. I do think there is a certain type of self hating Gay man who sees "camp" in something like that and loves it. Gods are made of 'stars". To each his own. But certainly Susann isn't my God.
Her books were fun to read. Not literary masterpieces, but so what.
@Dottiecurran Do you mean "lead" to violence?
I will admit to being bald, and "ugly" is a matter of opinion; but I DO take umbrage to "self-hating queen,"; I am rarely "silly"; and I am confused by the oxymoron of "trash literature."
@BeemerryNYC You're welcome
@ZarahLean You never address any issues which are placed before you, but merely spout the same tired rhetoric. Also, your entire argument is moot, since I don't think anyone ever deigned to rate Susann's talent anywhere near that of Capote (and when did Gore get involved in this debacle?). She was a ballsy dame who desperately wanted success and was ruthless and dogged in achieving it. If you don't care for her methods, or her results, that's your prerogative.
@jimmysudar Yes, Susann actually doesn't look bad here, in my opinion. This was after the time she had a crush on Ethel Merman (of all people!) and was pounding on her door. Merman called the police on her. Susann got her back by letting everyone know the Helen Lawson in Valley of the Dolls was Ethel in reality. Susann was a great deal of fun and made money but a great writer-NO. Her books were all just trash. "Once is more than enough" was the review of "Once is Not Enough".
@BeemerryNYC "She looks like a truck driver in drag" and " I killed Jack-o-lantern Susann. Her cancer was in remission till she saw me on the Tonight Show" Mean, yes. But not as mean as she was
Tony Randall acted like a pretentious jerk on this show.
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@stacia99 I think you have lost your mind. But feel free to enjoy the great works of Jack o lantern Susann and I'll continue to enjoy the great literature of her homosexual enemies. I agree with the reviewer who, after forcing himself to read "Once is Not Enough" wrote "Once is more than enough!" . After "Valley" was released on film "It ends with Patty Duke in garbage cans. Maybe she is looking for a print of the film?"
Sue Oakland was such a cutie
And get this 'straight" fans of the long dead Susann who institutionalized her own son and then lied about him: every time you engage me, I will be back with another barb against this cheap huckster. She is over, just like this show. But its payback time.
@BeemerryNYC I guess you are welcomed to have Jack Susann as your favorite author and I'll admire the great works of Truman Capote. I disagree that he was "jealous" when Susann's books were clearly along the line of the supermarket check out counter. Susann had attacked him first with a homophobic imitation. And, wonderfully, Capote got his revenge. The truck driver in drag remark was priceless. He aplogized to truck drivers.
@peterjon211 I'll take that advice now Peterjon211. I've read Valley, The Love Machine and Once is Not Enough. Jack died before churning out very much more. These books are like movies so bad that you can't turn away from because you are wondering how low the sewer can go. I've also read that she was either a closeted Lesbian or bi-sexual who was very uncomfortable. Vicious homophobia is often found in her writing. No wonder writers like T. Capote hated her.
I'd rather see Simon fornicate with dogs than read his reviews.
(Actually, I wish I'd fornicated with Jackie Susann.)
Nothing you write here will change the truth. Mr. Capote was a great writer, Jack-o-lantern Susann was not. I loved Mr. Capote's answer to a lawyer's letter Susann had him sent. He wrote "It's so well written. Too bad your client doesn't have that ability!". Everything about Susann was a lie: her age ("I fear turning 40" when she was 44) , her religion (she was Jewish claiming to be Catholic) and her closet lesbianism (sought an affair with Ethel Merman while railing against homosexuals) A fake
Once again, because it bothers the idol of clay worshippers here so: In the words of the great, late Truman Capote when asked about her : "Please! She looks like a truck driver in drag. Wears sleazy gowns and wigs" When told Susann was going to sue: "It will be an easy lawsuit to win. I hope she does sue. All I have to do is pay a bunch of truck drivers to appear in court in drag and everyone will agree with me" Upon her death "Ding dong the witch is dead. I killed her!"
Have you noticed she has trouble breathing here? Even sitting down? I know she had cancer and a masectomy, but she took loads of other drugs, too. pills to sleep, pills to wake up.
Her only "talent" was knowing how to turn sordid smut scenes into a cash box. What stikes me (and I agree with Zarah) is how un real all the people are on this show. Sort of like a sewer forman pretending to be George V. And i also agree that vicous homophobia kills, it can not be excused because of the "times". As mr Blackwell once said of Jack off Susan "Writes love, looks like a divorce!"
Either you would have to be a woman or have money. Let's face it, she was a fake who wrote trash to get money. A Jew who claimed she was Catholic. Lied about her age, too. Nothing about her was real, even her tits. Not that she is the only fraud on this show...Tony Randall aka what...Rosenthal? was about as straight as old Jacqueline. Truman Capote said it best: "She looks like a truck driver in drag who wears sleazy gowns and wigs" After he made an apology to truck drivers.
You are a pig.
I know more about her than you think. Have a nice day
I would imagine that John, Arlene and Bennett were almost ashamed to be associated with this hack writer. Talk about pulp fiction!
The show looks creaky here--society had radically changed. Think back if you're old enough--1967! Free love, Vietnam trauma and a completely changing society.
John looks old, tired and, perhaps, tired of the show.
@tjbnyc76 I'll keep telling the truth regardless of how angry that makes you. Susann wrote garbage and it was full of homophobia. I could care less about Randall or Rosenberg or whatever his/her real name was. A bunch of fakes. I must admit that Susann was able to make alot of money on her National Equirer style "books" but that will never put her in the class of a Capote or Vidal.
The moral of the story is folks....trash sells. I guess many people think that Jacqueline Susan writes classy trash. Michey Spillane writes trash and it sells. Serious intellectual books aren't always bestsellers and it is just a fact of life, everybody.
Critic John Simon said on TV that he would rather see dogs fornicate then read Jacquline Susann
@ZarahLean You're allying yourself with a racist and a homophobe simply because she hates Jacqueline Susann as much as you do, you slam people on this show based on class and sexuality, and you seem so fond of drag and gender "jokes"... it's not particularly convincing when you claim you dislike Susann because she was homophobic.
Yeah, well, The National Enquirer sells, too. Great literature it is not. Truman Capote was one of the greats.Getting back to this show, it is interesting how both Arlene Francis and Susann seem to have taken diction lessons to cover their low class sounding accents. I'm sorry, I love Arlene Francis but she sounds like Sadie Fart trying to be Queen Victoria! And that queen Tony Randall! Please! What a bunch of fakes, the whole lot of them.
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