http://pjmedia.com/ronrosenbaum/2009/01/22/roger-l-simons-book-and-my-hollywood-anecdote/ Fri, 02 Apr 2010 00:15:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://pjmedia.com/ronrosenbaum/2009/01/22/roger-l-simons-book-and-my-hollywood-anecdote/#comment-3009 Eliezer Pennywhistler Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:36:35 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/ronrosenbaum/?p=585#comment-3009 If you want "an encyclopedia of the Hollywood anecdote" you could try "The Wit And Wisdom Of Hollywood" by Max Wilk. If you want “an encyclopedia of the Hollywood anecdote” you could try “The Wit And Wisdom Of Hollywood” by Max Wilk.

]]> http://pjmedia.com/ronrosenbaum/2009/01/22/roger-l-simons-book-and-my-hollywood-anecdote/#comment-2725 charlie finch Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:37:42 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/ronrosenbaum/?p=585#comment-2725 In Scott Fitzgerald's essay "Afternoon of an Author", as perfect and heartbreaking a summation of a creative life as can be imagined or dared, he shakily sits at breakfast, contemplating a request to purchase the film rights for "The Great Gatsby". He had sold both the silent and talkie rights long before and was thus "out of it". "Best stick to your last," he thinks, the familiar furrow of what he did best. 72 years later, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", a freak story which Fitzgerald regarded as a throwaway, has 13 Oscar nominations. THAT is how Hollywood treats writers! In Scott Fitzgerald’s essay “Afternoon of an Author”, as perfect and heartbreaking a summation of a creative life as can be imagined or dared, he shakily sits at breakfast, contemplating a request to purchase the film rights for “The Great Gatsby”. He had sold both the silent and talkie rights long before and was thus “out of it”. “Best stick to your last,” he thinks, the familiar furrow of what he did best. 72 years later, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, a freak story which Fitzgerald regarded as a throwaway, has 13 Oscar nominations. THAT is how Hollywood treats writers!

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