The Best of Everything
March 4, 2010
I really shouldn’t have, but I bought this pulp novel on Ebay a week ago and just got it in the mail.–it was just a $1.99.
I’m a sucker for these pulps from the 50s/60s–but especially if they’re film tie-ins, like this one:
The Best of Everything written by Rona Jaffe.
The movie starred Hope Lange, Stephen Boyd, model Suzy Parker, Diane Baker, Bob Evans (yes, The Kid Stays in the Picture), and special guest Joan Crawford!
Here’s a review.
If you haven’t seen it, it’s on DVD (I own it, natch).
The movie is totally melodramatic (“An expose of the lives and loves of Madison Avenue working girls and their higher ups”) and most of the story takes place in a publishing house–where Joan is the top editor.
Here’s a classic scene between Joan and Hope Lange–guess which lines are Joan’s…
Caroline Bender: Typed?
Amanda Farrow: No Miss Bender. Beat it out on a native drum.
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March 16th, 2010 at 3:34 pm
You’re too young to remember, but this was actually a short-lived ABC soap. It ended without warning, leaving me and its dozen or so other viewers to wonder about what would happen to poor April and Dexter.