Morris Levy

November, 1959

What makes a Hollywood Columnist? Three academic degrees? A background in teaching? A rigid avoidance of cocktail parties? Choosing one's friends outside the movie industry? Hardly. And yet they have made one Hollywood columnist, 36-year-old Joe Hyams, whose literate daily column for the New York Herald Tribune is globally syndicated in over a hundred papers. Hyams is respected where other columnists are merely feared. "It's no use lying to him," Hollywooders admit. "Joe never set...