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 his 90’s. It includes the story of how he and F Scott Fitzgerald
worked together—or, more accurately, how they got fired together.
You’ll find that video here (www.nytimes.com/pages/arts/index.html) --you’ll have to scroll down to the
videos and find it, it doesn’t have its own url).
There’s a more comprehensive video bio on YouTube, in three
parts. It covers how he was shunned in Hollywood after writing “What Makes
Sammy Run?” and testifying against his former friends in the Communist Party. I don't buy his rationale for cooperating with the McCarthy witch hunt (one of the Hollywood Ten was my mentor) but
there’s no denying Schulberg was a fascinating man. Here’s the link to the first part,
it’s about 5 ½ minutes long:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld6LfetSdcw
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