The Gossip Columnist (1980 TV Movie)

Kim Cattrall: Dina Moran

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• Dina Moran : Alma, there's nothing I can do.

  Alma Lewellyn : I promised him a mention.

  Dina Moran : I'll try to make it up to you next time. All right?

  Alma Lewellyn : You have no relationship with the past so you've no idea whom you're dismissing so casually.

  Alma Lewellyn : There were three greats in this town: Parsons, Hopper, and Alma Lewellyn. We made the rules. We set the standards. We meted out the punishment. We had the power to make and break careers. Stars, producers, even studio heads were frightened of us, of what we did, and didn't write. You're very smug with your new found power! Well, believe me, it's only on loan. When you've served your purpose, when they're through with you, you'll be standing right where I am.

• Dina Moran : How can one man control all those people?

  Marty Kaplan : Case controls a bushelful of stars. And stars control this business.

  Dina Moran : So no one wants to offend Mr. Case and risk losing out on one of his clients?

  Marty Kaplan : Pussycat, it could mean the difference between a 50-million-dollar gross and a 50-megaton bomb.

• Dina Moran : But I don't know the first thing about writing a gossip column!

  Alan Keyes : Start with who's sleeping with who.

  Dina Moran : Whom.

  Alan Keyes : Forget the grammar; just get the beds right.

• Marty Kaplan : I can't let you go back there, pussycat!

  Dina Moran : Marty, I am not a pussycat anymore!

• Dina Moran : I thought I was brought out here to cover the political scene in California.

  Alan Keyes : Politicians, actors--same thing.

• Mark Case : What you saw was a woman trying to stay afloat with alcohol.

  Dina Moran : And you don't want me to print what I saw?

  Mark Case : Well,do you honestly believe that your readers are entitled to know that Georgia O'Hanlon is an aging, fighting drunk? I mean, will that piece of information really advance the cause of responsible journalism?

• Dina Moran : [Beholding with dismay a sumptuous spread of catered foods]  Y'know, a few years back, when gas was twenty cents a gallon, a couple of Englishmen took a tour of this country. And when it was over, they were asked what specific thing most impressed them about America. And they said, the incredible... Well, I thought they were gonna say something like the incredible beauty or the incredible energy or friendliness. You know what they said? The incredible waste. Except for the price of gas, nothing much has changed.

• Dina Moran : In your series, you play a blind detective who uses disguises to catch the villain?

  Terry Anderson : That's right.

  Dina Moran : Now I don't quite understand the premise. If you're blind, how can you see the disguises you put on?

  Terry Anderson : Yeah, well, that's the writers' job, and I'll tell ya they haven't been coming up with much lately. That's why the ratings have been slipping. Television writers are overpaid, under-talented, and the most pampered people in the business!