Posted 8:38 AM by Gene

If we are to believe LALA's obit when he wrote What Makes Sammy Run? (which the HSX crowd still thinks is a "true-life story" -- maybe it was) Budd Schulberg proved Hollywood was not thin skinned, it was no-skinned. That, in my book, is a supreme mark of honor. It is depressing, however, to think that Schulberg was old enough to have worked with F. Scott Fitzgerald on one of his last projects, a screenplay called Winter Carnival, aborted when Fitzgerald showed his talent for liquor ran just behind his talent for words. In its own odd way that too is a mark of honor. Now we have JUDD APATOWS flattered by A. O. SCOTTS. That wedding of vulgarity and flattery is far more sickening than What Makes Sammy Run? ever was to any Hollywoodian.