Bennett Cerf on What's My Line: An Oral History (Part One) 

And 12 years later we still are!

Indeed

Eric Stuart No Cerf doesn't fit the description of a clod. He may have been a bit stiff, some people may have found him obsequious or he may ha e been a bit square. But he was not stupid. If anything he was incredibly bright and intelligent. Hal was a pleb.

@@davidsanderson5918 yes , Block didnt quite fit in with Bennett Cerf , Arlene or Dorothy. It was a shame as Block was hard working , he wrote for Bob Hope , Abbott & Costello and many others. Block tried needed the WML job so he tried too hard to be funny and it didn't work

How is that easier to wear than a tux.

I’m also send thanks for posting this. John looks like he is smiling at Dorothy in the caricature.

Although I like Bennett, I can not call anyone who maligned colleagues as “honorable.” Even today, people take Bennett’s personal opinions as facts.

pureredwhiteblu ~ With a little bit of Truman Capote mixed in.

brosue4 To be fair I heard him only refer to ONE disgusting column she wrote as opposed to suggesting it was disgusting every day. She reported upon what was going on in showbiz. Well, nuff said!! Ernest Hemingway has been quoted variedly as saying she was "the most powerful voice in America" and "the greatest female writer in the world." That should at least be taken as a positive point of view, I would say and doesn't suggest nastiness was a part of Kilgallen's house style. She fell out with Sinatra when she proceeded to reveal items that he didn't like. I know that. But who do you believe? Hemingway or Sinatra?

@@davidsanderson5918 Both, I suppose. Sinatra had the experience of being reviewed by her, Hemingway had the experience of being a fellow writer. She did have a sharp tongue, but she was an incredible journalist. Not enjoying Sinatra can't condemn her, being praised by Hemingway doesn't nullify any unintended consequences of her work

If Bennett thought Dorothy’s column disgusting then, imagine what he would think of what passes as “news” now.

@@dutchtea8354 At least he enjoyed her personally.

@@VickyRBenson ?????????

3anneology She also had a penchant for juicy showbiz news though. Sinatra fell out with her after she went public with things he wasn't happy about.

She wrote a gossip column the last few years of her life. She could be extremely cruel to people that she didn't like. She did that to Frank Sinatra. After he read her column about him he said, "If anybody is going to run over and see Dorothy Kilgallen, be sure to run over her".

You're an idiot.

RRaquello Fidel Castro was never an enemy of the United States. But the United States was the enemy of any country in Latin America pursuing an independent course.

@@vestibulate I have several friends whose parents managed to escape communist Cuba and arrived here with cents in their pockets. They would not agree with you.

@@dutchtea8354 I'm very comfortable with the opposition of your friends' parents.

Which, of course, is precisely what Bennett did in this interview.

Baby boomers still do.

World War I was once referred to as "The Great War".

Hope not. By the time (1968) of this interview, Dorothy had been for dead (imo murdered) several years.

Joie Fulton No. This was an interview conducted by journalist Robin Hawkins.

Joie Fulton In contrast to the other facetious reply, you're forgiven for asking....after all, that giggle is reminiscent of our Dot.

@@davidjames666 There is absolutely no proof that she was murdered. I don't consider books written by money grubbing authors as proof.

@@davidjames666 dorothy was an odd looking lady. What was her background, family, etc?

Wha... Whaaat? they ARE communists. Why not read the45 goals of communism as defined by Cleon Skousen at the 1963 Congressional hearing. And, a conservative and a fascist are much more removed from each other than a liberal and a communist

@@kmakhlouf4387 Thank you for your ignorant and bigoted comment, Senator McCarthy.

Christy Widener What he means is that advertisements were so awash with deodorants, dental hygiene products, odour eaters, cleaning oroducts that an outside to the US could be excused for thinking 'wow these people must really stink.'

How so?