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Tag Archives: F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Books: Memo from David O. Selznick : The Creation of “Gone with the Wind” and Other Motion Picture Classics, as Revealed in the Producer’s Private Letters, Telegrams, Memorandums, and Autobiographical Remarks
Next book on the Hollywood shelf: Memo from David O. Selznick : The Creation of “Gone with the Wind” and Other Motion Picture Classics, as Revealed in the Producer’s Private Letters, Telegrams, Memorandums, and Autobiographical Remarks, selected and edited by … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Movies
Tagged books about Hollywood, David O. Selznick, F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The Books: Zelda: A Biography, by Nancy Milford
Daily Book Excerpt: Biography Next biography on the biography shelf is Zelda: A Biography, by Nancy Milford How can a girl say again, “I do not want to be respectable because respectable girls are not attractive,” and how can she … Continue reading
Midnight in Paris Re-Release: A Nostalgia For a Life He Had Never Lived
This article originally appeared on Capital New York. Midnight in Paris opened in May. So far, it has made over $50 million in the United States alone, making it Woody Allen’s biggest box office success. Sony Pictures has decided to … Continue reading
2010 Books Read
Round-up of the books I read this year, in the order in which I read them. I am nearly finished with one last book (a collection of stories by Miranda July, given to me by my sister Siobhan for my … Continue reading
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Tagged A.S. Byatt, Andrei Tarkovsky, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Annie Proulx, books read, Dava Sobel, David O. Selznick, David Thomson, E.M. Forster, Elia Kazan, Ellen Terry, Emily Dickinson, Ernest Hemingway, Evelyn Waugh, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fred Astaire, Fyodor Dostoevsky, George Bernard Shaw, George Orwell, George Washington, Gouverneur Morris, Ireland, Jane Langton, Jaws, Joan Blondell, John Banville, John McGahern, Mark Helprin, Orson Welles, Oscar Wilde, Peter Bogdanovich, Rebecca West, Roman Polanski, Ron Chernow, Russia, Serbia, Shirley Jackson, Stefan Zweig, Sylvia Beach, Tana French, Tennessee Williams, Warren Beatty, William Shakespeare
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Happy Birthday, F. Scott Fitzgerald
So you see that old libel that we were cynics and skeptics was nonsense from the beginning. On the contrary we were the great believers. — F. Scott Fitzgerald, “My Generation” F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on this day in … Continue reading
Happy Birthday, Zelda Fitzgerald
Excerpt of letter from Zelda to Scott Fitzgerald, included in the wonderful biography Zelda: A Biography: Scott – there’s nothing in all the world I want but you – and your precious love – All the material things are nothing. … Continue reading
Memo from David O. Selznick: in re “Tender Is the Night”
Selznick, in his later years, became obsessed with F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night. He wrote: It is one of the great regrets of my career that I did not make Tender Is the Night. With Ivan Moffat I … Continue reading
Edits
“You never cut anything out of a book you regret later.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald to Thomas Wolfe who was struggling with revisions at the time
Fitzgerald and St. Ex. What a Difference a Week Makes
I am now in a whole new landscape. Passing through a crucible. It will inevitably leave me “lesser than”, I know that much from life, and it can’t be helped. Can’t be gone around, must be gone through. For now, … Continue reading
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Tagged Antoine de Saint-Exupery, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up
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Fragmentation
I am still not able to read like I used to. I try to just “go with it”, if I feel like reading – but the impulse comes over me intermittently, randomly, and I certainly do not have the concentration … Continue reading