Word: schulberg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Theater (Sun. 7:30 p.m., NBC). Budd Schulberg's The Disenchanted...
What Made Buddy Run? Novelist Budd (The Disenchanted) Schulberg had somewhat the same story to tell. In 1937, he said, at the tender age of 23, he was lured into a Marxist study group. He wasn't really certain that he'd ever been an actual party member, and his disillusionment with the party came (at the tender age of 25) when his Communist pals tried to dictate the story line of his first novel, What Makes Sammy...
After that, said Schulberg, "I didn't want anything more to do" with the party. With this account, the committee seemed impressed...
...more witness who provided a whole catalogue of Hollywood Reds and ex-Reds. Like Actor Hayden, Writer Richard Collins had broken with the party and saw no reason to "go to jail for a year, for guys I don't even like any more." Among them: Novelist Budd Schulberg, who, he said, quit the party in a huff after the Reds tore into his What Makes Sammy Run?, Producer Robert (All the King's Men) Rossen, a score of other lesser Hollywood citizens...
Arthur Mizener, an English professor at Minnesota's Carleton College, has tried to do in a biography what Schulberg failed to do in his novel: root out the sources of Fitzgerald's failure as a man and evaluate his worth as a writer. If The Far Side of Paradise is not a distinguished biography, it is at least an honest and sympathetic effort to see Fitzgerald as he really was. And, like The Disenchanted, it is practically insured against failure or dullness by its material-irritating and fascinating in almost equal parts...