Word: walcott
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...front of the seminar tables like bunting and--altered so that there actually appears to be a halo around the iconic figure--appears on the front of the Centennial's Conference Program. Hemingway attracted attention like a movie-star: at the conference's closing session, fellow Nobel laureate Derek Walcott called Hemingway "the first writer to become a real celebrity," and W.E.B DuBois Professor Henry Louis Gates proposed that "for some portion of the 20th century, Hemingway may well have been the most famous person on earth...
...assess the nature of Hemingway's influence on world literature" through the discussion of "significant themes in Hemingway's writing career including Africa, war, nature, creativity and despair." The many panelists were great writers and journeymen, both: the Nobel laureates Saul Bellow, Nadine Gordimer, Kenzaburo Oe and Derek Walcott as well as critically and popularly acclaimed authors E. Annie Proulx, Tobias Wolff, Chinua Achebe, Frederick Busch, Peter Matthiessen, George Plimpton and dozens of others. A hundred years after Hemingway's birth and 38 years after his death, the subject of the conference was how Hemingway has held up--not just...
...Louis successfully defends his world heavyweight boxing championship by defeating "Jersey Joe" Walcott in 11 rounds...
Finding a director, however, was the real stumper. Simon admits he and Walcott didn't want a strong "auteur" who would try to impose his own vision on the show. "We wanted to do it our way, and we wanted a director whose thinking was compatible with ours," Simon says. "We wanted to work with a good director, but we didn't want to work for a good director." After running through most of Broadway's top names, rejecting some and being turned down by others, Simon settled on Susana Tubert, an Argentine-born director who had apprenticed with Harold...
While some colleagues found Simon open and willing to listen to suggestions, others complain that he was less than receptive to dissenting ideas. (Walcott was reportedly even more prickly about proposed changes in the book he and Simon had written.) "I guess if you really become insistent on being happy with what's going on, some people are going to think you're difficult," Simon responds. "I don't think so. That's an artist's right." Yet an impending opening can focus the mind, and Simon eventually became convinced that he needed help from an experienced Broadway hand like...