Harrison Carroll industry for 43 years, writing his last column in 1969, after which he retired. His column was syndicated by the Central Press Association to 48 newspapers. He had feuds with the leading gossip columnists of the day, including Hedda Hopper, Louella Parsons and his fellow Herald columnist Jimmy Starr: all of them appeared as themselves in the 1947 crime movie "The Corpse Came C.O.D.". Beginning in 1967 until he retired, Carroll's main place of business was the private, members-only Beverly Hills discotheque-"cum"-restaurant Daisy, a hang-out for the younger, hipper stars like Paul Newman when he was in L.A. He created
Stewart Wallace Memorial Opera House of the San Francisco Opera in 2008. The New York City Opera announced that it would stage the East Coast premiere of Wallace's “Hopper’s Wife” — a 1997 chamber opera about an imagined marriage between the painter Edward Hopper and the gossip columnist Hedda Hopper—at Harlem Stage from April 28 through May 1, 2016. Stewart Wallace Stewart Wallace (born 1960) is an American composer and cantor. Wallace was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has spent much of his career composing experimental operas, from the dance-centered "Kabbalah" (1989) to the surrealist "Hopper's Wife" (1992). Two of his operas