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Regarding the answer to Mr. Howard T. Archibald's letter in TIME, Aug. 4; Mr. B. P. Schulberg is not satisfied with an answer which has failed to explain the size of Comrade Stalin's pitcher [TIME, Sept. 1]. This reminds me of Martin Luther, the great German reformer, to whom the question was put by a curious interrogator, "How did God spend his time before he created the world?" Luther's answer:- "He was somewhere in the woods chipping a rod which was to serve him in flogging such an interrogator...
...SCHULBERG Columbia Pictures Corp...
...cashing in on the by-products of his reputation. Besides his take from writing and broadcasting, he is getting a fee reported to be around $20,000 for nine weeks' work as technical adviser for an RKO film called Passage from Bordeaux (adapted from a novelette by Budd Schulberg). Shirer was offered a small part in this refugee drama as a radio broadcaster but turned it down on the grounds that his screen face is depressing...
What Makes Sammy Run? will provide plenty of lively guessing for Hollywood. For Sammy is an accumulation of several current careers, which Author Schulberg has painted with merciless accuracy. Sammy's start in Hollywood came by stealing the story of an underling in the advertising department of the paper, and larceny sponsored his success from then on. At one time, while Sammy was making $500 a week, the real author of his work was on Sammy's payroll for $25. Soon Sammy became a producer, eventually head of the studio after some deft back-stabbing of the people...
...Author Schulberg's principal preoccupation is with what makes a Sammy Click. He finds Hollywood full of them, although most have "all their sammyglickness covered up with Oxford manners or have-one-on-me sociability or Christian morals that they pay their respects to every Sunday morning when they don't have too big a hangover." In parsing Sammy, he tries to find the Glick goal and comprehend the Glick means, even returns to Sammy's grubby childhood surroundings in Manhattan's Rivington Street, a thickly packed Jewish section...