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Media Matters for America (Free subscription) | yesterday
From The New Yorker 's November 23 profile on Glenn Beck: If you sensed something of a quiet spell about ten days ago, a lull in the usual media storm, it may have been owing to the fact that Glenn Beck, the energetically hateful, truth-twisting radio and Fox News Channel talk-show host, was absent from the airwaves for a week, to have his appendix removed. A few days after his surgery, he made it...
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Time to Write (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
I just finished reading “The Disenchanted,” a fictionalized version of the time a young Budd Schulberg (the author of the book) spent with F. Scott Fitzgerald toward the end of the latter’s life. Fitzgerald, broke and suffering from alcoholism, took...
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Pete Lit (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The estimable Chicago publisher Ivan R. Dee is reissuing Budd Schulberg's On The Waterfront, which he wrote after writing the screenplay for the great film of the same name. “The film’s concentration on a single dominating character, brought close to...
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Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
Brooklyn’s Brave New World Repertory Theatre is bringing the Bard to the Boardwalk in September with two open air performances of "The Tempest" by William Shakespeare to be staged on the Coney Island beachfront. Here are details: The Tempest by William Shakespeare Saturday, September 26 and Sunday, September 27 3pm each day Free On the Boardwalk at Coney Island - near 10th Street (by...
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Edward Copeland on Film (Free subscription) | 09/07/2009
By Edward Copeland I can hear the grumbling already. Why does Elia Kazan deserve a tribute? He named names before the House Un-American Activities Committee hearings under Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s. It was the same cry that greeted him when he was given an honorary Oscar in 1998. (My own objection was that he didn't need one since he'd already won two Oscars competitively and there were plenty...
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Edward Copeland on Film (Free subscription) | 09/07/2009
By Edward Copeland When Budd Schulberg died last month, I felt bad that I didn't have time to write an appreciation. Then again, what would I have written? I've never read What Makes Sammy Run? and it had been quite some time since I'd seen A Face in the Crowd . Did I want to write solely about On the Waterfront ? However, Elia Kazan's centennial was approaching, so I was planning to revisit A Face...
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The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 09/06/2009
Elia Kazan was born into a Greek Orthodox family on Sept. 7, 1909, in an ancient capital of the world, Constantinople, destined to be renamed Istanbul by the Turkish rulers. At age 4, he was part of the family's emigration to New York City, which remained home for much of the rest of his long, celebrated and sometimes publicly controversial life as a theater and film director. Mr. Kazan died at 94....
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Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 09/01/2009
He worked on it for a decade, but Ben Stiller never ended up bringing Budd Schulberg's classic novel "What Makes Sammy Run?" to the screen. Now, in a Q&A with writer Jerry Stahl, the inside story of the project comes to light.
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The Big Picture (Free subscription) | 08/31/2009
One of the great Hollywood mysteries of recent vintage, right up there with how Adrien Brody ever won an Oscar and why Universal Pictures thought it should spend $100 million on a hapless comedy like "Land of the Lost," is...
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The House Next Door (Free subscription) | 08/25/2009
By Tom Stempel COMING UP IN THIS COLUMN: Funny People , In the Loop , Julie & Julia , The Answer Man , Budd Schulberg and John Hughes: an appreciation, Middle Passage Summer Cable Season 2009, but first: *** FAN MAIL: Great collection of comments on US#30 , folks. I always appreciate them. Daniel Iffland raised a very good question as to why all the discussions about writers on serialized TV dramas...
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Diplomatic Blogoir (Free subscription) | 08/23/2009
Mark Steyn on Budd Schulberg : As a 20-year-old Dartmouth student, Schulberg visited the Soviet Union and was shown its artistic glories. He fell in love with the theatre of Vsevolod Meyerhold, Stanislavski’s wayward disciple. Meyerhold loved the older stylized dramatic forms—commedia dell’arte, pantomime—and refused to confine himself to Socialist Realism. So in 1939 Stalin...
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Nerd World (Free subscription) | 08/22/2009
Three important screenwriters died recently. Which writer's work will have the greatest impact on the future of movie-making? A) Budd Schulberg (On the Waterfront) B) John Hughes (Ferris Beuller's Day Off) C) Blake Snyder (Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot) The answer, in the pattern of how these things always go, is C) Blake Snyder. Yes, Budd Shulberg embodied the [...]
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the sad red earth (Free subscription) | 08/19/2009
In 1957, the very recently, lamentably departed screenwriter Budd Schulberg and Elia Kazan respectively wrote and directed A Face in the Crowd, starring a pre Sheriff Andy, very finely dramatic Andy Griffith. The film is the story of “Lonesome” Rhodes, a man with a troubled past who goes on to become a broadcasting phenomenon in [...]
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Time to Write (Free subscription) | 08/18/2009
Novelist Budd Schulberg (“What Makes Sammy Run'” and “On the Waterfront”) died recently. There’s a good video obit on the New York Times site, featuring an interview with Schulberg just a couple of years ago when he was already in...
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