Word: ferber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Victim of the same sympathetic fallacy is Empire (NBC), the story of a great King, as in Texas' huge King ranch. Since it is a kidnaped stepson of Giant, it might have been written by somebody called Billie Sol Ferber, who proves that the West ain't what it was. One ranch hand punches another, and the punched man looks up and says feelingly: "I'm sorry for all your suffering...
From Edna Ferber to Vladimir Nabokov, Romain Gary, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, his list of clients reads like the world's best-kept book of unlisted phone numbers. "I call myself a literary agent," says Lazar, "simply to distinguish myself from actors' agents." He also handles composers (Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers), choreographers, etc. For Rodgers, he recently sold The Sound of Music to 20th Century-Fox for $1,250,000, and for Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe he peddled Camelot to Warner for the same amount. He had a hand in the $5,500,000 deal...
...Edna Ferber's 1952 Texas novel, Giant, made such a searing impression on them that the evils of "ednaferberism" are still good for a diatribe from the Panhandle to the Rio Grande. Novelist Ferber gathered all the Texacana she thought she needed in a six-week visit-though, as Texans like to tell it, she merely flew across the Southwest in an airliner and sent a note to the pilot: "Please fly a little lower-I want to write a book about Texas." Author Bainbridge moved his wife and two children from their house in Bronxville, N.Y., to Dallas...
...treat me like dirt." Folding Tens. In his plays he could be fey and even sentimental, as in Yon Can't Take It With Yon, the saga of the lovably eccentric Vanderhofs, and he could turn out straight living-room drama, as in Dinner at Eight (with Edna Ferber...
...times have changed. For one thing, the writers nowadays all marry cuties. In our day, writers were sometimes drawn to more intellectual girls." And the girls (at least in retrospect) were brighter, such as the time, someone remembered, that Nonresident Member Noel Coward looked across the table at Edna Ferber and said sweetly, "You almost look like a man.'' Said Edna Ferber...