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Ernest Hemingway met A. E. Hotchner in 1948, and the world-famous novelist and the relatively unknown magazine writer soon became fast friends. They went fishing together in Cuba, watched bullfights in Spain, hunted the pheasant country of Idaho, and toured France. "Papa" and "Hotch" got along so well together that Papa gave his friend the right to adapt some of his novels and short stories for movies and TV. And because they were inseparable companions, Hotch became aware of Papa's gradually increasing periods of depression, his dark and suicidal moods. There was a time when Hemingway tried...
...popular with Mexicans-former President Miguel Alemán has a palatial villa and is a faithful weekender-the resort is becoming the new sun spa for the international big rich and their attendant swingers, and the easygoing oldtimers are uneasily sniffing winds of change in Acapulco's famous breezes...
...hours a day or else you become someone with shades and cuban heels -- and that's bad." He takes his business and his style seriously -- WBZ disc jockeys on the whole avoid excessive noise, screaming, and talking down to their audience. Bradley described a famous disc jockey at another station noted for its noise level as "a loud, undisciplined slob...
...show that scants Iago to star Laurence Olivier as the Moor. London critics were overwhelmed by the almost inexhaustible resourcefulness of Olivier's stage interpretation. Archivists should cherish the film as a record of what happens when the greatest actor in the English-speaking theater attacks a famous, difficult role and stamps his genius upon it. Yet Olivier's Othello seems ultimately to be pitted less against Iago than against the Bard himself...
Already long famous as one of Britain's most versatile and gifted writers (her Lolly Willowes was the first selection of the fledgling Book-of-the-Month Club in 1926), Author Warner turned to writing short stories exclusively in 1954. This baker's dozen of new stories shows that, at 72, she has lost neither her light-handed cruelty nor her wise compassion in picturing human fallibility...