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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...money is paid elsewhere. "I worked on a movie," said Miller, "and made exactly the compromises that I was forced to make in TV-except that I made them for a lot more money." ¶ Queasy sponsors want "happy shows for happy people." Lack of artistic freedom ("I'm the lost soul of you chappies") drove Chayevsky to Hollywood. "I didn't make hardly any money out of the movie Marty," he rumbled. "But we had a ball and it was fun." As examples of what TV -"a malevolent juggernaut that's gonna chew me up"-will...
...explain his popularity? "I'm too young to know my customers," says Nemerov, and then gets right down to business: "As I analyze them, they are mostly people of means whose wives love beautiful homes and would prefer a colorful picture to Gauguin, for instance.*When a stranger walks in and pays for a painting of yours, life becomes wonderful indeed. You see, I couldn't bear to be a failure, not only in my own eyes but in the eyes of the world...
...novelist, turn-of-the-century muckraker, chronicler of the Harding era (Revelry, Incredible Era), master of reminiscence (Grandfather Stories), whose widely varied five-foot shelf also made a large haul in Hollywood (Flaming Youth, It Happened One Night, The Gorgeous Hussy, The Harvey Girls); in Beaufort, S.C. "I'm damned if I want my last novel to appear posthumously," he said, but Tenderloin will not appear until January...
...value of the farms they own has soared; in some places it has doubled in value over ten years ago. Not only that, but many farmers are buying more and more land on which to farm. One result: average farm real estate value per acre rose from $100.39 m March to $104.80 on Nov. 1, reflecting the drive by farmers to expand their acreage base in order to take advantage of present prices and farm price supports...
...though he recognized that "the escape was worse than the reality." These scenes of self-lacerating drunkenness are the most painful and morbidly fascinating parts of Beloved Infidel. Among the episodes: Fitzgerald aboard a plane raging at the stewardess and his fellow passengers ("Do you know me? . . . I'm F. Scott Fitzgerald. You've read my books. You've read The Great Gatsby, haven't you? Remember?"); Fitzgerald insisting on being spoon-fed by Esquire Editor Arnold Gingrich and spewing up coffee and trying to bite Gingrich's hand during the feeding; Fitzgerald goading...