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...HORSE KNOWS THE WAY, by John O'Hara. The fourth recent collection of O'Hara's short stories shows a consistent excellence seldom achieved by any writer. In his tales of well-off, middle-aged people, the novelist defines his spiritual habitat as clearly as Faulkner staked out Yoknapatawpha...
Scriptwriter William Faulkner, who also wrote "The Big Sleep" screenplay for Hawkes two years later, incorporated several of "Casablanca's" most memorable features into "To Have and Have Not." Bogart plays the same outwardly embittered and egocentric but inwardly sympathetic hero in both, and both plots concentrate on the efforts of the other characters to enlist his desperately needed "hard resourcefulness" on the side of the anti-Nazi underground. The center of the action in both movies is a saloon that employs a wise and loyal piano player and a patriotic, emotional bartender. Both films include a hated Nazi...
...short, the two movies are pretty similar. But, fortunately, Faulkner has cut out most of "Casablanca's" soggy sentimentality leaving "To Have and Have Not" with the most consistently clever dialogue of any of the Bogies. Despite their common elements, this film has less actual plot than "Casablanca" (which means practically none) and is essentially what Agee termed a "leisurely series of mating duels" between Bogart and Lauren Bacall - "the toughest girl a piously regenerate Hollywood has dreamed of in a long, long while...
...decisive breakthrough came with the test run of Doubleday's giant FIBS (Fiction Imitating Bestseller Simulator). On that historic day, the white-smocked experts loaded the memory banks with the full texts of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Gone With the Wind, selected Faulkner, and the collected works of Erskine Caldwell. They programmed the machine with biographies of key characters. They set it for 1947 in rural Georgia, turned the sex dial to "low," and punched the button marked "1,000 pages." The highspeed printer began to chatter...
...with him. Fran?ois Truffaut is writing the scenario for the movie version of his novel Fahrenheit 451. Christopher Isherwood has compared Bradbury to Edgar Allan Poe. And Ilya Ehrenburg says that he is one of the five most popular American writers in the Soviet Union, along with Hemingway, Faulkner, Steinbeck and Spillane...