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  • Einstein in Hollywood: The untold story


    GrossbloggerAuthority Authority: 115
    Image via Wikipedia Until now, little has been known of Albert Einstein’s brief career in Hollywood, where the great physicist and mathematician spent two frustrating years as a screenwriter in the 1930s. But the recent finding of a trunk full of his screenplays and memos has shed new light on the episode. ...
    1 day ago
  • The Women


    The Front RowAuthority Authority: 132
    In his 1926 story “ The Rich Boy ,” F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote: Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were ...
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  • Glorious: The Story Behind the Story


    NakiAuthority Authority: 120
    My novel GLORIOUS was six years in the making and now its just six months away from publication. The story first came to me in 2004 as I sat in my kitchen sipping tea when I became suddenly was aware of the presence of two women, who I will contend until the day I die, were the spirits of Zora Neale Hurston and ...
    3 days ago
  • Francis Scott Fitzgerald


    Best BookAuthority Authority: 115
    Writers aren’t exactly people, they’re a whole lot of people trying to be one person.- F. Scott FitzgeraldThe outstanding dominations on F. Scott Fitzgerald were ambition, literature, Princeton, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, and alcohol.Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Sept. 24, ...
    4 days ago
  • Fitzgerald on Hollywood


    The Front RowAuthority Authority: 132
    Arthur Krystal’s fascinating overview of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s troubled relations with Hollywood as a frustrated screenwriter sends me back to the source to see some of the things that Fitzgerald said, in his fiction and elsewhere, about the movie business. Fitzgerald’s most famous movie-centered work is the ...
    5 days ago

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  • optimism and pessimism


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    I am opposed to false dichotomies (who isn’t), and there are times when I think artists’ embrace of ambiguity is a bit wishy-washy (obsessions man v. nature, nature v. technology, interstitial spaces, etc), but I do think optimism and pessimism is a rich terrain, and much more than a mere duality. The test of a ...
    6 days ago
  • The Great Gatsby - Cultural Context


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    Excellent for getting to grips with this quickly. http://www.mrcoia.com/school/units/gatsby/gatsby_pres.htm
    1 week ago
  • The Great Gatsby - Study Guides and Resources


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    A one page study guide! http://www.bellmore-merrick.k12.ny.us/grgatsb.html A homework study guide: http://www.homework-online.com/tgg/index.html An essay on symbolism in The Great Gatsby (worth reading!) https://www.msu.edu/~millettf/gatsby.html The Great Gatsby study links: ...
    1 week ago
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald Made $8,397 On Great Gatsby; His Daughter Ge...


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    There have been an increasing number of questions raised about both the length of copyright and the fact that it passes on to heirs after the original creator passes on. The original purpose of copyright had nothing to do with creating a welfare system for the children of content creators, no matter how much some ...
    2 weeks ago
  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button


    CinemarollAuthority Authority: 135
    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as a film is a slowly building poem, beautiful and profound and something that you definitely have to be in a particular mood for in order to enjoy. In an age where film goers have come to expect more flashy special effects than story-telling, it is truly remarkable that it has ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Your dose of daily stupid: Barack Obama is the most powerful writer since Julius Caesar.


    Van SantosAuthority Authority: 435
    I cannot believe the… self-indulging sense of importance Rocco Landesman and member of Obama’s administration have.  Truly, I cannot.  However, I guess the follow isn’t too far fetched from a group that asked artists to shill for the administration . During his 2009 Grantmakers in the Arts Conference ...
    2 weeks ago
  • The RMS Berengaria and the Crash


    Another Old Movie BlogAuthority Authority: 412
    We’re continuing our Halloween fright fest with something truly scary: the economy. This week marks the 80th anniversary of the 1929 stock market crash whose repercussions changed this country and a good part of the world. The above famous headline in Variety , devoted to stage and film, put the matter succinctly ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Perseverance. Without It, Passion Is Never Enough


    The Write SoulAuthority Authority: 108
    by Chiron O’Keefe “You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.” -- Dr. Wayne Dyer . Perseverance is a word that stumbles on the tongue. It’s not at all like the word Passion. Passion sounds juicy and gorgeous and bursting with flavor. Passion. ...
    2 weeks ago
  • The Beautiful and the Damned


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    The 1920s is often referred as the Jazz Age. Speakeasies (above) illegally sold alcohol during Prohibition and usually offered live music, food, and dancing. —————————————————————————————————————– Let’s not kid ourselves–everyone ...
    3 weeks ago
  • Friday Friday


    Gerry CanavanAuthority Authority: 484
    Friday! * The ping-pong match in the press over the public option continues. Nobody can figure out whether or not Pelosi has the votes , whether or not Obama supports an Olympia-Snowe-style trigger , or just what will happen with the cloture vote in the Senate . Ezra Klein compares the likely House and ...
    3 weeks ago
  • Links: Rod and Reel


    Mark Athitakis' American Fiction NotesAuthority Authority: 522
    In a Philip Roth interview with the Wall Street Journal —that would be the Roth interview that doesn’t address green dildos —he talks about his current reading habits , which mainly includes old favorites. “Mostly what I’m doing is rereading stuff that I read in my 20s, writers who were big in my ...
    3 weeks ago
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tax Returns


    The Tax Lawyer's BlogAuthority Authority: 521
    “There are no second acts in American lives.”- F. Scott Fitzgerald -In 1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald  wrote what is arguably the greatest American novel ever written: The Great Gatsby .Now a man named William J. Quirk, through a friend of a friend of Fitzgerald’s daughter, Scottie, has come into possession of the ...
    3 weeks ago
  • Todays Pop Five: susannahjos repeated reads


    Pop Candy: Top Stories & Community FeedAuthority Authority: 144
    The Pop Five spotlights readers top five lists. Todays submission comes from Susannah H., aka susannahjo, in Fishers, Ind.: I was just called "nerdy" in my companys break room, simply for admitting that Ive read Harry Potter (start to finish) more times than I can count. I tried to defend myself, pointing out that Ive ...
    3 weeks ago
  • Obama: I Hope That Everybody Is Willing To Recapture That Sense Of Excitement


    NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media BiasAuthority Authority: 826
    Cue the B.B. King, baby.  The thrill is gone. Here was Pres. Obama speaking to his $30,000-a-couple fundraiser tonight in NYC: "I hope that everybody here is willing to recapture that sense of excitement that comes from a big but achievable challenge, not a superficial excitement that comes from election ...
    3 weeks ago

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