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MOVING PICTURES: MEMORIES OF A HOLLYWOOD PRINCE by Budd Schulberg; Stein & Day; 501 pages...
...began in movies by collaborating with an alcoholic writer named F. Scott Fitzgerald (whom he later commemorated in the novel The Disenchanted) and wrote several film classics, including On the Waterfront and A Face in the Crowd. Today neither Benjamin Percival ("B.P.") Schulberg nor his son Budd is precisely a household-or Hollywood-name. But that odd obscurity is what lends Budd's memoir Moving Pictures its poignance and fascination...
...wife, founder of the Malibu colony, half-baked advocate of Freud, Dewey and Marx, full-time heckler of B.P. as too trusting, too irresponsible, likely to come to a bad end. "I've decided not to depend on Father-for anything," she told Budd as her marriage wound down. "In all these years he has practically nothing to show for the millions he's earned . . . he lives in that dream world of his, with people like . . . the Sidney woman telling him how great he is." The solution: Ad became one of Hollywood's top agents, a status...
...Fibbing: "It is not my habit to employ duplicity or artifice. But I want to make it clear that I am not Billy Budd. Billy Budd was a schmuck...
...modern literatures question the aims of money and power. But so, rightly or wrongly, do mod ern unions, consumer groups and havenots. Epstein leaves the impression that Americans are stewing in ambivalence because they have read Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Budd Schulberg. Publishing sales figures would not support such an impression...