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...there was a fine page of anecdotes about all the eccentrics who had passed through the newsroom since the days when Ben Hecht and Charlie MacArthur were working on that wonderful play. Editorial-Page Editor Charles Roper, who compiled the memoir, recalled that someone went berserk in the composing room one day and the police had to be summoned. The cops got off on the wrong floor, confronted the nearest writer, Bob Johnson, and said, "We understand you have a crazy man up here." Johnson waved an arm about the room and said, "Take your pick...
...1920s, Ben Hecht received a telegram from Herman Mankiewicz, a friend and fellow writer who had made a pioneering trek from New York to Hollywood. Hecht was firmly advised to do likewise: "Millions are to be grabbed out here and your only competition is idiots. Don't let this get around...
...Jack P. Hecht...
...Hecht's business, which grossed $1.5 million in 1981, is not without its perils. Recalls Hecht: "A woman in Kansas ordered Joseph Wambaugh's The Choirboys, thinking it must be about a church picnic. She soon let us know what she thought about the language and sex." B.O.T.'s catalogue now gives an XX rating for tapes of Anaïs Nin's Delta of Venus and The Hite Report. But even the lustiest prose is underplayed. Actor Dan Lazar reads My Wicked, Wicked Ways, Errol Flynn's spicy autobiography, in the vocal equivalent...
That prescription is surprisingly new. Back in 1975 few full-length recordings of books were available. Then, as now, only the blind and handicapped could borrow from the Library of Congress's several thousand titles on tape. But that year, Duvall Hecht, 51, an Orange County, Calif., commuter, helped found Books on Tape to counteract the cerebral atrophy he felt during his daily two hours at the wheel. Beginning with George Plimpton's Paper Lion on ten one-hour cassettes, Hecht's mail-order firm grew to represent 500 titles and adds 100 new works each year...