Time to Write (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
I just finished reading “The Disenchanted,” a fictionalized version of the time a young Budd Schulberg (the author of the book) spent with F. Scott Fitzgerald toward the end of the latter’s life. Fitzgerald, broke and suffering from alcoholism, took...
Pete Lit (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The estimable Chicago publisher Ivan R. Dee is reissuing Budd Schulberg's On The Waterfront, which he wrote after writing the screenplay for the great film of the same name. “The film’s concentration on a single dominating character, brought close to...
Green Integer Blog (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
Charley and Terry in deep discussion George Abbott and Richard Bissell (book, based in Bissell's novel 7 1/2¢ ), Richard Adler and Jerry Ross (music and lyrics) The Pajama Game / New York, St James Theatre, May 13, 1954 Budd Schulberg (writer) (based, in part, by articles by Malcolm Johnson), Eliza Kazan (director) On the Waterfront / 1954 George Abbott and Richard Bissell (based on Bissell's...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
The name Angelo Dundee is inextricably linked with another, Muhammad Ali. In his 50-plus years in boxing, Dundee has worked as a trainer and corner man with 15 world champions, but his association with Ali, who approached him as a teenage amateur called Cassius Clay, is what has given him fame.
Pete Lit (Free subscription) | 14/09/2009
Julie recaps our weekend trip to Milwaukee, my elaborations on which will be limited to the literary. First off, when she calls Downtown Books "ridiculously wonderful" she is not exaggerating at all. This is, hands-down, one of the very best...
Twistr (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Backyard Wrestling At Its Finest And by “finest”, we mean “rednecks trying to paralyze themselves”. In their defense, ladders are tricky. Related Posts: Anna Kournikova’s Super Tight Body Creative Teens Laptops / Notebooks – Way to Express Drew Barrymore & Ellen Page: Marie Claire Cover Girls! Drew Barrymore on VS Magazine Cover Funny Facial Expressions of the...
The Big Picture (Free subscription) | 31/08/2009
One of the great Hollywood mysteries of recent vintage, right up there with how Adrien Brody ever won an Oscar and why Universal Pictures thought it should spend $100 million on a hapless comedy like "Land of the Lost," is...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 31/08/2009
Ben Stiller, fresh off Cable Guy, Jerry Stahl, fresh off a park bench. I imagine how thrilled Schulberg, who wrote On The Waterfront, was to have two giants adapting his work.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 31/08/2009
Ben Stiller, fresh off Cable Guy, Jerry Stahl, fresh off a park bench. I imagine how thrilled Schulberg, who wrote On The Waterfront, was to have two giants adapting his work.
Diplomatic Blogoir (Free subscription) | 23/08/2009
Mark Steyn on Budd Schulberg : As a 20-year-old Dartmouth student, Schulberg visited the Soviet Union and was shown its artistic glories. He fell in love with the theatre of Vsevolod Meyerhold, Stanislavski’s wayward disciple. Meyerhold loved the older stylized dramatic forms—commedia dell’arte, pantomime—and refused to confine himself to Socialist Realism. So in 1939 Stalin...
Nerd World (Free subscription) | 22/08/2009
Three important screenwriters died recently. Which writer's work will have the greatest impact on the future of movie-making? A) Budd Schulberg (On the Waterfront) B) John Hughes (Ferris Beuller's Day Off) C) Blake Snyder (Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot) The answer, in the pattern of how these things always go, is C) Blake Snyder. Yes, Budd Shulberg embodied the [...]
the sad red earth (Free subscription) | 19/08/2009
In 1957, the very recently, lamentably departed screenwriter Budd Schulberg and Elia Kazan respectively wrote and directed A Face in the Crowd, starring a pre Sheriff Andy, very finely dramatic Andy Griffith. The film is the story of “Lonesome” Rhodes, a man with a troubled past who goes on to become a broadcasting phenomenon in [...]
Time to Write (Free subscription) | 18/08/2009
Novelist Budd Schulberg (“What Makes Sammy Run'” and “On the Waterfront”) died recently. There’s a good video obit on the New York Times site, featuring an interview with Schulberg just a couple of years ago when he was already in...
Design Observer (Free subscription) | 17/08/2009
Significant Objects is a much-discussed experiment conducted by Joshua Glenn and Rob Walker. The first of five stories is by Adam Harrison Levy...
Bubblegum Aesthetics (Free subscription) | 14/08/2009
Yeah, yeah-- posting has been light this summer, as one of you was kind enough to note in a comments section awhile back (I kid, Greg, I kid). I haven't been blogging, but I have been reading a lot, and want to take a moment to call your attention to some very fine links... -- Speaking of the Artist Formerly Known As Lapper, there's a nice piece by Greg Ferrara over at Cinema Styles about character...
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