Word: writer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MacLennan's narrative technique is brilliantly planned and assured; his insights into the motivations of his characters are clear and sometimes exciting. Always is evident the sure hand of a facile writer...
Dore Schary, onetime production boss of MGM, who is back in movies as an independent writer-producer, has translated this repulsive masterpiece into a snappy, sexy, phony little Horatio Alger story. The book told the story of a young reporter who, while writing the agony column for a New York newspaper, came to feel that he was being stretched upon the cross of the world's suffering. He goes insane and is murdered by one of the suffering souls he is trying to save. And what does it all mean? That nobody in his right mind can love...
...worked before will follow to the new firm. One obstacle to an early mass switch: a clause in standard publishing contracts requiring authors to give their publishers first refusal on their next book. Says Bessie of this clause: "I am not in favor of any devices to tie a writer to his publisher." As an inducement to new authors ("We hope to publish the best we can"), the partners are considering more lucrative terms for writers. One of the trio's projects: a line of high-quality paperbacks...
...there has been more than one death-filled night to remember, and Walter Lord's bestselling Titanic saga (TIME, Feb. 13, 1956) was bound to become the leader of a literary ghost-ship column. Authors Caulfield and Moscow are newsmen, and neither is as slick a writer as former Adman Lord. But they have raised their ships from the depths of forgetfulness and cast light into dark spaces...
...Script for BB. Both Authors Caulfield and Moscow skillfully let the facts unfold their dramas. Novelist Cecil Scott (Hornblower) Forester takes the opposite tack, prefaces his little Bismarck book with the warning: "This is as it may have happened. The speeches are composed by the writer." In The Ship (1943) Briton Forester showed that he could get inside the skins and skulls of British naval officers and ratings. But in his saga of the great BB (battleship) Bismarck, half the protagonists are German, and Forester's attempts at characterization lapse into caricature. The lines he has written for them...