Age 95
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 August 2009 01:12 (sixteen years ago)
Hard to overlook the whole friendly witness to HUAC thing, to put it mildly.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 August 2009 01:15 (sixteen years ago)
God, I thought he died years ago.
― Anatomy of a Morbius (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 6 August 2009 01:30 (sixteen years ago)
i met him about ten years ago -- he came in to a class of mine to talk about going to post-WW2 Germany with Billy Wilder ... an interesting life, HUAC notwithstanding! would've loved to hear him tell stories for hours ...
― tylerw, Thursday, 6 August 2009 01:42 (sixteen years ago)
old.
I dated his grand-nephew or something about 15 years ago. I remember he called him "Uncle Budd."
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 August 2009 02:12 (sixteen years ago)
Wow, he was still alive? Really liked his novel 'What Makes Sammy Run'. Had no idea about the HUAC thing.
― When two tribes go to war, he always gets picked last (James Morrison), Thursday, 6 August 2009 03:48 (sixteen years ago)
^^^ i could have basically posted that verbatim
― heavin' flho (s1ocki), Thursday, 6 August 2009 03:54 (sixteen years ago)
I'm choosing to overlook it for today, and remember "What Makes Sammy Run."
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Thursday, 6 August 2009 04:04 (sixteen years ago)
they keep threatening to make that with Ben Stiller, tho he's getting too old for it.
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 August 2009 04:25 (sixteen years ago)
THE DISENCHANTED is a really great and neglected novel about Fitzgerald in Hollywood
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 6 August 2009 08:14 (sixteen years ago)
More like Fitzgerald in New Hampshire, on a bender.
― Virginia Plain, Thursday, 6 August 2009 14:41 (sixteen years ago)
Yeah, he said that Tom Hanks was making "What Makes Sammy Run"! Guess that isn't happening.
― tylerw, Thursday, 6 August 2009 15:02 (sixteen years ago)
NYT ran this story on the guy who played Brando's teenage pigeon-coop friend in Waterfront:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/nyregion/07waterfront.html?scp=1&sq=hanley%20waterfront&st=cse
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 8 August 2009 15:38 (sixteen years ago)
fascinating story... thx
― heavin' flho (s1ocki), Saturday, 8 August 2009 15:52 (sixteen years ago)
A week ago saw his niece Sandra introduce film he scripted and his brother Stuart produced (and apparently for the most part directed) Wind Across The Everglades. RIP.
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 August 2009 16:11 (sixteen years ago)
Stahl and Stiller reflect and regret.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 31 August 2009 22:11 (sixteen years ago)