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...Paul F. Boller, Jr. and John George...
Boyer's statement was a fabrication of his publicist, Holmes' a pure fabrication and Rogers an inaccuracy (What the comedian actually said, according to George and Boller, was, "I joked about every prominent man in my lifetime, but I never met one I didn't like...
Does any real American ever get tired of listening to Hollywood stories? Apparently not: year after year the movie books roll off the presses. The newest -- and one of the best -- is Hollywood Anecdotes by Paul F. Boller Jr. and Ronald L. Davis (Morrow...
...Boller and Davis seem to have mined every shiny nugget in the Hollywood Hills. Could any screenwriter have written funnier lines, for instance, than those of Lewis J. Selznick, one of the pioneer moguls? A victim of anti- Semitism in his native Russia, Selznick nonetheless had a forgiving nature. When Czar Nicholas II was deposed in 1917, he sent him a cable: "When I was a poor boy in Kiev some of your policemen were not kind to me . . . stop I came to America and prospered stop now hear with regret you are out of a job . . . stop feel...
These shortcomings aside, there is something to be learned from scanning Quotemanship. Instead of simply listing his thousands of fascinating quotes-ranging from Gangster Al Capone on the American free-enterprise system to one Morris Zelditch on fluoridation-Historian Boller has chosen to weave them into a convincing argument for fair play in the use of quotations. But no matter how much harm may be done by distorting quotes, he demonstrates that the unretouched, straight quote can be most damaging of all. Practically everybody at one time or another has made statements that would better have been left unsaid...