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...praised his works as art, and Edmund Wilson. At the age of 51, the schoolboy raised on Latin and Greek becomes a novelist (The Big Sleep, 1939), trying to make the detective story "respectable and even dignified." It grew so respectable that Chandler could laugh when S. J. Perelman parodied Marlowe's hard-boiled approach in "Farewell, My Lovely Appetizer": "Her eyes narrowed. I shifted my 200 Ibs. slightly, lazily set fire to a finger, and watched it burn down." He combats a compulsion for the bottle, wrangles with Alfred Hitchcock over the script of Strangers on a Train...
...Book by S.J. Perelman, music by Kurt Weill...
...Perelman and the Angels...
...read about S.J. Perelman's death [Oct. 29] shortly after I had discovered and was still reading A Child's Garden of Curses. There's no doubt about the man's ingenuity, and the death of such an amusing character is a pity. I'm sure that now even the saints won't be able to keep a straight face with him and his writing around...
...Perelman married West's sister Laura in 1929. He began his career drawing and writing for Judge and College Humor; the Depression found him in Hollywood writing gags for the Marx Brothers. He also co-authored a number of plays, including One Touch of Venus with Ogden Nash, and in 1956 shared an Academy Award for his work on the film Around the World in 80 Days...