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CALIFORNIA, that vast American raisin in the sun, is the hero in Tom Dardis's account of the Hollywood years of five writing greats. In 1937 F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose wife was in a sanitorium, whose agent was unable to sell a single manuscript, and whose earnings for all his books in print during the past year had totalled $81.18, thought that his days were numbered. So when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer offered him a $1250 a week contract to write film scripts he had no choice but to accept. That his frustrating last years in Hollywood, when he tried, desperately...
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...Curtis went on. "I've seen him work on a plan as long as 30 days to get a dozen eggs halfway across the prison yard. He stole many a case of eggs in his time, sold them for $1 a dozen, $30 a case ... Sometimes we made raisin jack, sometimes homemade beer. Ray supplied the yeast because he could get it in the bakery, where he worked, and I made the stuff...
When Carter stood on another stage some 2000 miles away, arm-in-arm with hell-raisin', needle-poppin', perversely angelic Gregg Allman, waving to a generally stoned-out, dismal and politically-indifferent throng of the type that drab-and-dreary Providence seems to muster best, he seemed once again ill-at-ease but nevertheless convivial. Once again, he gave the crowd what it wanted--this time, a short speech, and the Allman Brothers Band. To a chorus of chortles and hisses, Carter raised his arms like a quarterback beckoning for audibility, and said...
...instance, the subject of consciousness-raisin. No doubt it is possible to write an "objective" examination of such a topic--interview various people, authorities, social critics, etc., pro and con--but it probably wouldn't be nearly as interesting or nearly as revealing. What Ephron found her group degenerating into was "a running soap opera, with new episodes on the same theme every week"--Episode 13 of the Barbara is Uninhibited and Peter is a Drag Show, Episode 19 of the Will Joanna Ever Get Dave to Share the Household Duties Show; Claire and Herbie in the Claire has Sexual...