the following year, he briefly worked as a pop-columnist for the "daily mail", before joining the "sunday express" in 1965 as an interviewer. in 1966, in addition to his feature writing, he was appointed the paper’s film and theater critic, a position he held for nearly 30 years, until he left the paper in 1995. among the many luminaries hirschhorn interviewed and profiled for the sunday express were tennessee williams, marlene dietrich, mae west (who was also the subject of a biography by hirschhorn), noël coward, jack nicholson, dustin hoffman, judy garland (in her very last interview), rita hayworth, bing crosby, billy wilder, george burns, james stewart, alfred hitchcock, woody allen, mel brooks, rosalind russell, betty grable, david niven, rex harrison, yul brynner, sammy davis, jr., julie andrews, arnold schwarzenegger, kirk douglas, tony curtis, mickey rooney, and ginger rogers.