Carl Rollyson
@crollyson
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Reviewer@NewYorkSun;https://t.co/G6qQZBWw6O; forthcoming: Making the American Presidency; Searching for Sylvia; Sappho’s Fire; Our Eve Arden; Herman Melville Anew
Joined April 2009
10/30/64: Beau Geste: Ronald Colman “trudging across the windswept wastelands of the Sahara to find a French fort manned by dead men. That one scene caused more tumult than anything the movies could have conjured for the next 20 years.” Kingston [Ontario] Whig-Standard).
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Faulkner wasn’t different from many great writers who resisted editing. The changes proposed for Absalom, Absalom!, as he well knew, were wrongheaded. Other times, he worked closely with editors such as Saxe Commins. He let Ben Wasson made significant edits in Flags in the Dust.
SHELBY FOOTE'S WRITING SCHEDULE Shelby Foote, for most of his life, wrote seven days a week, for a total of about 50 hours. This was for generally two reasons. He wrote hard from poverty, this was how he made money. When he got to writing the Civil War, he wrote hard from
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10/29/59: to Jean Stein: “I am so happy you have a daughter. I am partial to girl children; I hope that when she is 19 she will be pretty too, like you.” He treasured his memories and also the fiction of what she had made it possible for him to imagine.
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Though numerous biographies have been published on William Faulkner, readers are often presented conflicting interpretations of his life and work. Faulkner’s view of himself and his own family was...
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On October 29, 1951, she attended William F. Buckley’s lecture at Smith about his new book, God and Man At Yale. She could see he relished his command of the audience as he advanced a contrarian argument that academic freedom was totalitarian.
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The Making of Sylvia Plath
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10/29/86: “his ability to project both romantic dreaminess and hardheaded practicality…only possible in an age when movie stars were projections of our highest ideas of nobility and masculinity...” (Lou Cedrone, “Capra’s Lost Horizon, Baltimore Sun).
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Ronald Colman, the silent film star, who showed a generation of actors how to perform for the talkies, remained Hollywood’s gentleman hero for more than two decades. He appeared with many of the...
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I will be reviewing two books about Hepburn in tomorrow’s New York Sun.
funny face is filled with the loveliest women (kay thompson!!) and then the camera pans to fred astaire and his forehead and it's like.. okay man whatever
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From Starships to Etherships: Why Ethereum's Real Endgame is a $100 Trillion Interplanetary Economy We are on the cusp of the single greatest economic expansion in human history, and it has nothing to do with AI, Web3, or the metaverse as we know it. It has to do with leaving
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Appears without a whip in my work in progress: Our Eve Arden
Good night, Twitter pals. Stay glamorous. Hedy Lamarr, THE STRANGE WOMAN….Inspired by @LaurasMiscMovie
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The pre-Ted Hughes period
10/28/55: “cold frosty” Cambridge: 9:00: Redpath lecture; 10:00: Leavis lecture; 11:00: Bradbrook lecture; 12:00-1:00: Tea with Richard Mansfield; 4:30: Tea with John Lythgoe; 6:00: Sherry with Brian Corker at Pembroke College; 8:00-10:00: Dinner at Copper Kettle with Richard
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I write about her performance in my work in progress: Our Eve Arden.
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He has his moments in my biography, Our Eve Arden. Also an appearance here:
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Ronald Colman, the silent film star, who showed a generation of actors how to perform for the talkies, remained Hollywood’s gentleman hero for more than two decades. He appeared with many of the...
Mildred Pierce: I like to hear you talk. Wally Fay: So do I. Something about the sound of my own voice fascinates me. Jack Carson, the ultimate (somewhat) lovable heel, was #BornThisDay in Carman, Manitoba.
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10/28/55: “cold frosty” Cambridge: 9:00: Redpath lecture; 10:00: Leavis lecture; 11:00: Bradbrook lecture; 12:00-1:00: Tea with Richard Mansfield; 4:30: Tea with John Lythgoe; 6:00: Sherry with Brian Corker at Pembroke College; 8:00-10:00: Dinner at Copper Kettle with Richard
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10/27/54: Gloria Franklin (wife of WF’s stepson, Malcolm): “Pappy is doing fine, so far, he has been in good spirits and I think utterly amazed that Mama really left him. Perhaps a taste of being alone in that house would serve him right and do him good.” https://t.co/KIkqX9oTtG
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Though numerous biographies have been published on William Faulkner, readers are often presented conflicting interpretations of his life and work. Faulkner’s view of himself and his own family was...
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October 27, 1960: “I've been having a lovely birthday week to console me for catapulting so swiftly towards thirty”—not to mention that line in “Tulips” about the “thirty-year-old cargo boat / Stubbornly hanging on to my name and address.”
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The Making of Sylvia Plath
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10/27/52: “The Lost Silk Hat” on Four Star Playhouse: North Hollywood, California Valley Times: The “fulfillment of television drama at its peak.” Same day: The Jersey Journal: a “Noël Coward smartness about it.”
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Ronald Colman, the silent film star, who showed a generation of actors how to perform for the talkies, remained Hollywood’s gentleman hero for more than two decades. He appeared with many of the...
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I don’t know about this one, but Arden often designed her own dresses. More about that in my work in progress: Our Eve Arden.
Me pressing the Twitter Block button on people who are mean to my friends.😡
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I write about the film here:
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Walter Brennan (1894–1974) was one of the greatest character actors in Hollywood history. He won three Academy Awards and became a national icon starring as Grandpa in The Real McCoys. He appeared in...
Gary Cooper and Margaret Wycherly in Sergeant York, 1941...
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10/26/53: Robert Haas to Saxe Commins calling A Fable “tremendous. To my mind it’s one of the greatest novels that I’ve ever read . . . the horsethief section should be cut.” https://t.co/sYFNpW29VH; why Hass was mistaken about what should be cut:
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William Faulkner has been the topic of numerous biographies, papers, and international attention. Yet there are no collected resources providing a comprehensive scope of Faulkner’s life and work...
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October 26, 1946: Plays G.I. Joe with Ruthie and Prissy and frosts her birthday cake in green letters that spell Sylvia.
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Since Sylvia Plath’s death in 1963, she has become the subject of a constant stream of books, biographies, and articles. She has been hailed as a groundbreaking poet for her starkly beautiful poems...
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