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Tremonius
08/06/09

In reply to Budd Schulberg, Writer
Remember On the Waterfront began as a series of Pulitzer-winning articles in 1948 about crime and corruption on the New York docks. As in the movie, guys on the waterfront who cooperated with the Commission were disappeared, whereas the movieland snitches were allowed to keep their swimming pools and palatial estates and careers. The only risk to fifties snitching was to whatever self-respect might have survived, although they were able to make movies to render themselves as bold patriots for selling out their erstwhile comrades.
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Wendy_Kroy
08/06/09

In reply to Budd Schulberg, Writer
A year or two ago there was some movement on a new Sammy adaptation, with Ben Stiller attached, but the powers that be apparently came to their senses, and the project fizzled. What Makes Sammy Run is blackhearted enough to make The Player look like the Care Bears Movie - it's brilliant, but it's unfilmable.
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sarrible
08/06/09

In reply to Budd Schulberg, Writer
Okay, how is Budd Schulberg personally arresting Leni Riefenstahl not a movie already?
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scroll_lock
08/06/09

In reply to Budd Schulberg, Writer
I can imagine he heavily employed the terms "dames" and "skirts" -with a cigarette dangling from his lower lip, bobbing as he spoke.
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Carol Gardens
08/06/09

In reply to Budd Schulberg, Writer
Another great movie business novel turned film is "The Player" by Michael Tolkin.
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MsMuffinMcGuffin
08/06/09

In reply to Budd Schulberg, Writer
He may have been a "great artist" (which is somewhat debatable in my book), but he still turned on his friends and colleagues. And that is how I remember him.
Oh well.
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snugbug
08/06/09

@MsMuffinMcGuffin: Eh. Great artists = often great a-holes. Still can't get over how Hollywood booed Elia Kazan when he stepped up on stage to accept his Lifetime Achievement Oscar(TM).
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MsMuffinMcGuffin
08/06/09

@snugbug: I know that all too well, seen it in person way too many times, snugbug.
As to Kazan, he deserved it. I don't believe that being a talented artist gives one an unlimited get-out-of-jail-free-card to be be a giant asshat.
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Kitten_Witawip
08/06/09

@MsMuffinMcGuffin: If you have ever lived in Hollywood you would know that you may have colleagues but you don't have friends.
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MsMuffinMcGuffin
08/06/09

@Kitten_Witawip: Actually I lived there for quite a while. And I had a lot of friends as well as the colleagues you mentioned.
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snugbug
08/06/09

@MsMuffinMcGuffin: You know, that was my fave and (only?) revealing Oscar moment: Kazan comes on stage (a frail old man who needs assistance to walk). At which: Spielberg + wife Capshaw, Jim Carrey: listlessly applaud while seated. Warren Beatty, Meryl Streep, Kathy Bates, Julie Andrews: heartily applaud in standing-ovation stance. Ed Harris: sits down, hands folded in his lap, looks bummed. Holly Hunter: sits down, arms crossed in protest, looks ANGRY. Nick Nolte: sits down, arms crossed, looks like he wants to machine-gun ‘em all. On stage: Presenter Scorsese embraces Kazan with uncommon tenderness; presenter Robert de Niro kisses him.
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Tremonius
08/06/09

@MsMuffinMcGuffin: Yes, I do intend someday to appreciate the works of all the character flaws I am told are worthy of attention, but somehow the less objectionable seem to be taking all my time.
Take a number, Mr Schulberg.
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notsofresh
08/06/09

In reply to Budd Schulberg, Writer
A Face in the Crowd really is a great movie. Along with Ace in the Hole, it's a great reminder that there's nothing new under the awful media sun.
Also, Patricia Neal was seriously sexy.
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depardoo
08/06/09

@notsofresh:
And Andy Griffith was spectacular in it.
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lionboy
08/06/09

@depardoo: Griffith was superb. I've always felt this movie got little notice in later years because nobody wanted to see Sheriff Taylor as a maniacal manipulator. It's an extremely relevant movie and I hope it gets more attention in any retrospective pieces on Schulberg's career.
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BadUncle
08/06/09

In reply to Budd Schulberg, Writer
Pea-pickers rise up against pod people!
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ZelimirTethys
08/06/09

In reply to Budd Schulberg, Writer
What Makes Sammy Run? was filmed for television in the late 1950s and is now available on DVD with commentary from Schulberg. It was also a Broadway play briefly in the early 1960s, starring Steve Lawrence.
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lionboy
08/06/09

@ZelimirTethys: It was actually a Broadway musical which was revived briefly in 2006.
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snugbug
08/06/09

In reply to Budd Schulberg, Writer
@Pareene: What a freakishly good, informative, heartfelt obit.
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