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Very French. Big names still show up, too: Thornton Wilder, Gene Kelly, William Shirer, James Jones. Playwright Brendan Behan even turns up sober. But, a good part of the present clientele is French. Jean-Paul Sartre and his constant companion, Simone de Beauvoir, make Harry's their regular hangout. Françoise Sagan uses Harry's for her tristes, and so do a growing number of young French playwrights, film directors and actors...
Scattered through these pages are gleanings from many a bottom drawer: an early nature essay by Proust, a radio play by Brendan Behan (both in Evergreen), in which he continues to re-Joyce, a shrewdly funny story by Israel's Isaac Babel (Noble Savage...
Propelled by his special-formula liquid fuel-brandy with a champagne chaser-Irish Author Brendan (The Hostage) Behan blasted clean out of the Celtic atmosphere, confided to Dublin drinking partners that he would like to live in the U.S. "It's a very free place to write in," he explained, "and there's the advantage that no one knows what you're writing about anyway...
...London Observer's Patrick O'Donovan dissolved in an Irish mist; he caused such a stir with his groans, hiccups and toasts that Susskind had him removed from view during a hasty message from the sponsor. Then there was the night when good old reliable Brendan Behan cut loose with a rendition of the largely unquotable song, Lady Chatterley's Lover...
Over an early-morning beer in a Los Angeles tavern, bumptious Irish Playwright Brendan (The Hostage) Behan recalled how he told off a Canadian critic during a recent visit to Toronto when he heard the man belittling U.S. space achievements. "I say to him: 'My friend, Ireland will put a shillelagh into orbit, Israel will put a matzo ball into orbit and Liechtenstein will put a postage stamp into orbit before ever you Canadians put up a mouse.' And do you know, he hit me just for that...