By RONALD CONSTANTINO
Highspeed once again goes Hollywood, with these words best described as “Short but no sweet.”
“Everybody in town has had Yvonne De Carlo!’ – TONY CURTIS
“Everybody in Hollywood has had Tony Curtis.” – YVONNE DE CARLO
“Rob Lowe really is. I used to think his talent lay in his face, but apparently it is much lower than that…” – KLAUS KINSKI
“Albert Finney was a big talent. Now he’s just big.” – GEORGE ROSE
“Jeanne Moreau was interesting-looking-to put it nicely. Now she looks like Bette Davis, and that is not putting it nicely.” – VAN JOHNSON
“All my life I wanted to look like Elizabeth Taylor. Now I find that Liz Taylor is beginning to look like me.” – DIVINE, who weighed three hundred pounds.
“Dietrich? She’s okay, if you like cheekbones, dahling.” – TALLULAH BANKHEAD
“Tony Curtis is a perfect example of what ambition and bad career choices can do to fabulous good looks over the years…” – JOHN GIELGUD
“There are two good reasons why men will go to see her.” – HOWARD HUGHES on JANE RUSSELL
“I pity any actor who gets second billing to Raquel Welch. He’s really getting third billing to her breasts!” – EDWARD G. ROBINSON
(Source “Hollywood Babble On” by Boze Hadleigh).
