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...artists and scholars who were asked to name the 20th century authors or books they consider the most overrated-or underrated. Arnold Toynbee and E.M. Forster, it seems, have the most inflated reputations. In addition to Forster, Anthony Burgess cited Andre Gide and Hermann Hesse. J.K. Galbraith called Ring Lardner underrated, while Vladimir Nabokov found H.G. Wells' The Passionate Friends the century's most "unjustly ignored masterpiece," though he had not read it for 60 years. Bob Dylan named only one book, which was, he said, both underrated and overrated. His selection: the Bible...
Hollywood on Trial, which concerns the HUAC investigations and the subsequent blacklisting of several hundred writers, directors, producers and performers in both movies and television, focuses primarily on the men who went to jail for contempt of Congress. These ten - the group included Dalton Trumbo, Ring Lardner Jr. and Director Edward Dmytryk - declined, sometimes indignantly, sometimes bemusedly, to answer the persistent questions of the committee chairman concerning their alleged Communist Party affiliations. "I could answer your question," Ring Lardner told the committee, "but I'd hate myself in the morning." Since Communist Party membership was not illegal...
Ever since Abner Doubleday paced off the first diamond, the horsehide and Louisville slugger have remained in their pristine state, although the introduction of the rabbit ball prompted a cascade of vitriol from Ring Lardner and his contemporaries. Basketball has altered little since Dr. Naismith tacked up his peach basket, and the essential changes in football have come in strategy...
...rights by inferring that it was by the unfailingly successful team of writers Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. (They were under contract to another studio and, Hepburn suggested, couldn't sell a script under their own names.) Mayer bit and the screenplay by Michael Kanin and Ring Lardner Jr. went into production with the two baby authors making bundles and Hepburn taking an agent's cut. The film was a huge success and the screenplay won an Academy Award for Kanin and Lardner. The movie is legendary for many reasons, some of which have to do with the famous love...
...RING LARDNER JR. It depends on the circumstances. I could answer it, but if I did I would hate myself in the morning...