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...entries date back to 1607, and the most recent are women who died in 1950 (thus excluding such perennial favorites as Helen Keller, Zelda Fitzgerald, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Marilyn Monroe). Still, the dictionary is a treasury of role-models, drawn clearly enough for those who have trouble naming an American woman they admire but detailed enough for those who are already champions of "herstory...
...series of films about each decade since 1920; they will show the cultural extremes that can exist in the same era. He is currently writing a scenario for the first one, about a Wyoming farmer who rescues from a plane crash an urbane couple modeled after F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald...
...published in 1934, Scott Fitzgerald mused to his friend Gerald Murphy, who served as one of the models for Dick Diver: "It has magic. It has magic." It was indeed a seductive book, and a nimbus of equally powerful magic surrounded its author. Though Scott squandered his talent and Zelda went mad, legend still holds firmly that they were enchanted people somehow removed from the dailiness of life...
Cavett and his wife, Actress Carrie Nye, live in a handsome six-room East Side apartment. Carrie Nye, now 33, is a willowy Mississippian who met Cavett when both were at Yale and married him in 1964 after a sporadic court ship. She says: "Dick thought I was Zelda Fitzgerald, and I thought he was the squarest person I ever met. I remember thinking that he was attractive but what a pity he was such a bore." She pauses, then adds in a voice as sultry as a hot night on the old plantation: "In the intervening years he became...
...incisive footnotes, as well as the gold mine of new screenplay material. But, if you know little about Fitzgerald, it would be wiser to start with Arthur Mizener's fine standard biography. The Far Side of Paradise ; then take a look at the underwritten but magnificently researched Zelda . Better yet, take advantage of the Fitzgerald revival by getting copies of his works themselves, large stacks of which can now be found in every bookstore. In the past year, Fitzgerald's Hollywood works, Tycoon and The Pat Hobby Stories, have been published in paperback for the first time. So read them...