Robert Redford

Gatsby Speaks!

These awful films go on and on

Dear Nick, READ MORE >>

When I saw the 1949 film of The Great Gatsby, the only other person in the screening room was Edmund Wilson(whom I didn’t know). Afterward, as he left, a smiling Paramount publicity man asked him how he had liked the picture. “Not very much, I’m afraid,” said Wilson,and kept walking to the elevator. The Paramount man looked less disappointed than betrayed, as if saying,“We’ve gone to the, trouble of making a whole movie out of your friend’s book and you don’t even appreciate it!” READ MORE >>

Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America By Peter Biskind (Simon & Schuster, 627 pp., $30)   READ MORE >>

To Die For

“Everybody is kind of sitting around waiting for a slow speed chase and waiting to write, you know, this into a movie.”—A guest on “The Edge With Paula Zahn,” Fox News, May 15   READ MORE >>

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