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Literary Heroes Talk about twisted priorities! you feature the obituary and picture of John Hughes, director of forgettable, cotton-candy movies, and yet give Budd Schulberg, an important literary figure, a scant few lines [Aug. 24]. It makes me wonder if your arts editors are about 14 years old. Apart from his novel What Makes Sammy Run?, Schulberg was around in an important era of major literary figures and was a colleague of F. Scott Fitzgerald on movie scripts about which he wrote a novel, The Disenchanted. Trevor Hoyle, NEWHEY, ENGLAND...
...Budd Schulberg, 95, penned novels, short stories, biographies and sports columns. But for many, the humanity of his writing is captured in just one line of dialogue from his 1954 Oscar-winning screenplay, On the Waterfront: "I coulda been a contender...
Schulberg, Budd • death...
...wife Adeline Jaffe, a literary agent, were rare New Deal Democrats among conservative moguls like Louis B. Mayer and unreconstructed primitives like Harry Cohn; and Budd extended their liberalism into membership in the Communist Party. After graduating from Dartmouth College in 1936 and returning to Hollywood, he was placed on the board of the new Screenwriters Guild to agitate for Party causes. He also worked on some B movies. On Winter Carnival (1939), a fictionalizing of the annual Dartmouth frolic, his co writer was F. Scott Fitzgerald, cadging for jobs in California after the drying up of his first...
...just that for many a brash entrepreneur in Hollywood and on Wall Street. Schulberg later said he was pained that Glick, reputedly based on writer-producer Jerry Wald, had become a template for go-getter corporate America. The novel did not endear Schulberg to Mayer, who told B.P. that Budd should be deported. "He's a U.S. citizen," B.P. supposedly answered. "Where the hell are you gonna deport him? Catalina Island?" Sammy remains one of the few popular Hollywood novels never to have been turned into a Hollywood movie...