Word: writer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...football game a certain pleasure may be derived from calling the plays beforehand, but in "The Homestretch," which happens to be about horse-racing, the average spectator will soon tire of matching wits with a plodding script-writer. Maureen O'Hara and Cornel Wilde join and separate as mechanically as two participants in a Virginia reel, with the much-abused backdrop of horse races and a stately Marlyland homestead. But there is nothing positively unpleasant about the picture: blushing technicolor is made the most of, especially in the newsreel shots of the English coronation, and the photography of the races...
...Writers at Work. ERNEST HEMINGWAY is in Cuba, working on a novel which he has already spent five years on. He is reluctant to talk about it. In Ohio, Pulitzer Prizewinner ROBERT PENN WARREN (All the King's Men) was deep in a long ballad about the frontier, and also writing a novel "about a man who undertook a deed of light, but who, because he undertook it without understanding its context, performed in the end a deed of darkness." Another Pulitzer Prizewinner, JOHN P. MARQUAND, didn't believe that "a writer's apt to evolve very...
Hollywood's Temptation. A favorite complaint of the writers is that Hollywood's big money is the ruination of many a promising writer. Warren, whose All the King's Men was passed up by the movies until it got the Pulitzer award (and now will fetch Warren up to $200,000), thought that "the odds are probably against a writer doing good work in Hollywood." Added Marquand, a graduate of the slicks: "The slicks and Hollywood and radio-though not so much radio-do their best to stifle ideas and originality. They're very dangerous...
...Prefer not to answer this question. A writer has no more right to inform the public of the weaknesses and strengths of his fellow professionals than a doctor or a lawyer...
...writer-Hollywood combination capable of doing good literary work...