F. Scott Fitzgerald

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• Einstein in Hollywood: The untold story

  
  Grossblogger — 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. ...
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• The Women

  
  The Front Row — 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

  
  Naki — 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 ...
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• Francis Scott Fitzgerald

  
  Best Book — 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, ...
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• Fitzgerald on Hollywood

  
  The Front Row — 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 ...
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  AfterElton.com - Because visibility matters — Authority: 649
  
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• optimism and pessimism

  
  R+D — Authority: 117
  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 ...
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• The Great Gatsby - Cultural Context

  
  Go For Gold — Authority: 108
  Excellent for getting to grips with this quickly. http://www.mrcoia.com/school/units/gatsby/gatsby_pres.htm
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• The Great Gatsby - Study Guides and Resources

  
  Go For Gold — Authority: 108
  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: ...
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• F. Scott Fitzgerald Made $8,397 On Great Gatsby; His Daughter Ge...

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 163
  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 ...
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• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

  
  Cinemaroll — 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 ...
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• Your dose of daily stupid: Barack Obama is the most powerful writer since Julius Caesar.

  
  Van Santos — 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 ...
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• The RMS Berengaria and the Crash

  
  Another Old Movie Blog — 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 ...
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• Perseverance. Without It, Passion Is Never Enough

  
  The Write Soul — 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. ...
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• The Beautiful and the Damned

  
  [the3st] — Authority: 135
  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 ...
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• Friday Friday

  
  Gerry Canavan — 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 ...
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• Links: Rod and Reel

  
  Mark Athitakis' American Fiction Notes — 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 ...
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• F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tax Returns

  
  The Tax Lawyer's Blog — 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 ...
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• Todays Pop Five: susannahjos repeated reads

  
  Pop Candy: Top Stories & Community Feed — 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 ...
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• Obama: I Hope That Everybody Is Willing To Recapture That Sense Of Excitement

  
  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — 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 ...
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