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Moravia said Dostoyevsky has had the most influence upon his writing. He noted too the influences of Kafka, Hemingway, and Bocaccio...
Backaches can strike almost everyone, the young and the old, males and females, people of all classes and professions. Thomas Jefferson suffered an acute case of backache when he rashly took it upon himself to show his slaves how to use a plow. Ernest Hemingway, who had a nagging back problem, chose to write standing up. To ease the pain of a wartime injury, John Kennedy spent hours in the soothing comfort of a White House rocking chair...
...Woody Allen she is "probably the most beautiful woman the world has yet seen." He might have added that Mariel Hemingway, 18, his Manhattan costar, is also a topflight athlete. Even before she began an arduous nine months of training for the part of an Olympics-bound track star in Personal Best, Heming way would spend four to five hours a day at her home in Ketchum, Idaho, swimming, skiing, jogging, riding horses, climbing mountains or tumbling on the family trampoline. To play a pentathlon competitor, she stretched her repertory to include the shot put, high jump, long jump...
...best, Walter Hill strips familiar movie forms of their cultural and nostalgic crustations, polishing them down to their existential bone and gristle. Like Hemingway's, his laconic style can be come mannered to the point of self-parody, as it was in The Driver. But when he is good, as he was in the prizefighting film Hard Times, or last year's gang-war epic The Warriors, there is a hard purposefulness about his work that avoids macho sentimentality and easy moralizing. He is at the top of his form in The Long Riders...
When she describes a sensuous experience, like going swimming, Hellman reaches for her Hemingway: "The water was the right temperature, everything was good, everything was better." She has kept a large vocabulary out of Dashiell Hammett, her longtime companion, and gang ster films. "Stuff' and "junk" are all-purpose nouns; a restaurant is a "steak joint" or a "fish dump...