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Budd Schulberg's essay on the first world heavyweight title fight, a bare-knuckle contest between Tom Cribb and Tom Molineaux, is not an eye-witness account, as the event took place in 1810. But this New Yorker is closer to it than most boxing writers, having seen his first fight 83 years ago, at the age of 11. Yet those expecting rheumy-eyed nostalgia in this collection of his journalism will be...
Film News: 'Waterfront' scribe wins 2008 Laurel Award -- The WGA West has selected Budd Schulberg as recipient of its 2008 Laurel Award for Screen, honoring lifetime achievement in writing for motion pictures.
Your birthday today:
Originality, courage and a keen sense of humor are your chief characteristics. You love good times and like to share them. You are naturally friendly and enjoy a large circle of friends.
None of those friends, however, seems to have had his name written into the book, so perhaps you might find some companions for celebrating this day, in this list of birthday notables:...
B orn today: Comte Alfred de Vigny, poet, playwright, novelist, Loches, France, 1797; Henri Murger, novelist, Paris, 1822; Thorne Smith, comic novelist, Annapolis, Md., 1892; Ai Qing, poet, Jinhua, China, 1910; Budd Schulberg, author, essayist, New York City, 1914; Shusaku Endo, novelist, Tokyo, 1923; Louis Simpson, poet, Kingston, Jamaica, 1923; Anthony Lewis, columnist, New York City, 1927; T. R....
The sixth annual Garden State Film Festival (GSFF) showcasing film, video and animated works by independent filmmakers, will roll out the “red carpet” and light up the sky from April 4 – April 6 in Asbury Park. read more
The Hollywood majors have always had a certain disdain for their upstart rival, United Artists, whose 90th anniversary is being marked with a year-long celebration. The history of UA is one of the great artistic triumphs on screen.
Film News: 'Waterfront' scribe promoting boxing book -- Budd Schulberg never suspected that his famous line from "On the Waterfront" would become so imminently quotable. The screenwriter and novelist is in Berlin promoting his newest boxing book, "Ringside," while his son Benn is pre-selling a film on Schulberg's life at the EFM.