Word: kurnitz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trapped in Hollywood by New York Post Columnist Earl Wilson, Producer Harry Kurnitz detailed "standard equipment" needed by a screenwriter: "A Capehart, a Utrillo, a French poodle, a sun lamp, an exwife, a lawyer (for the ex-wife), an antique Chippendale gag file, some cashmere underdrawers, an empty box at the Hollywood Bowl (it doesn't count if anybody ever sits in it), one friend (preferably getting the same salary he gets)." "A typewriter?" suggested Wilson. Kurnitz shuddered, explained that a writer always dictates...
...MURIEL KURNITZ...
...which make up Hargrove's war is strung together with just enough story to keep things moving-and just enough plausibility to keep them from getting out of hand. Hargrove's experiences (which are not actually Writer Marion Hargrove's but the inventions of Scripter Harry Kurnitz) have the flavor of a letter home to an aunt who is a good old sport...