a Hollywood story

After a 6-day tour to Stanford and Michigan Universities, Hollywood director Stanley Kramer, director of such classics as The Pride and the Passion, Judgment at Nuremburg, The Defiant Ones, was taken to a saloon by new-coming actress Catherine Houghton, playing daughter of Spencer Tracy and Kathyrin Hepburn who wants to marry black Sidney Poitier in Kramer's Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? and he sat down in the front booth of the saloon which he had never been before, and he found an enormous photograph of Brendan Behan, staing at him in the face. "Whose idea was it to come here?," exploded Kramer referring to the man in the photograph. "What's wrong with it? This is the Rump Room and the man is wearing a tie," said the barman, adding, "You are, after all, sitting in one of the most famous places in Hollywood. In the seat you are sitting sat John Wayne, Alfred Hitchcock and Bob Mitchum." Turing to the other side to get relieved from Behan, Kramer's eyes caught sight of photograph of Pauline Kael, the harsh Hollywood critic whom Kramer hated immensely. "I'm really poisoned today, " said Kramer, adding, "This Kael woman wrote 9,000 words about Bonnie and Clyde in The New York Times when 90 would have been enough. "Critics, I know about critics," joined Groucho Marx whom we discovered sitting solo in a dark corner within an earshot. "Critics, I know about crititcs," said Marx, "When I was working in a musical in Chicago in the 1930s, I used to go to the movies with Carl Sandburg the poet who was a movie critic of The Daily News, and he always instructed me to wake him up 10 minutes before the movie was over."