1 posted on
04/27/2008 3:14:51 AM PDT by
Stoat
To: RebelTex; martin_fierro; jellybean
Hemingway, who committed suicide in 1961, snarked that in a love scene in "For Whom the Bell Tolls," Gary Cooper "didn't take off his coat. That's one hell of a way for a guy to make love, with his coat on - in a sleeping bag."
2 posted on
04/27/2008 3:16:27 AM PDT by
Stoat
(Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
To: All
3 posted on
04/27/2008 3:26:22 AM PDT by
Stoat
(Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
To: Stoat
As for "The Old Man and the Sea," "I sat through all of that movie, numb. Spencer Tracy looked like a fat, very rich actor playing a fisherman." Hemingway would always speak his mind. Spencer Tracy was a very good friend of his, one of the only people in Hollywood he could stand.
7 posted on
04/27/2008 5:16:07 AM PDT by
Paul Heinzman
(Out of chaos comes comedy.)
To: Stoat
Paul Johnson's Intellectuals has a chapter on Hemingway that's worth the price of the book. In it is a list of the injuries sustained by Hemingway while drunk -- it is absolutely astonishing. In one instance, he was sitting on the can when he mistook the pull-cord for the skylight for the toilet-chain; when it didn't flush, he yanked all the harder, eventually bringing the 500-lb skylight, frame, panes and all, down on him as he sat there. And then there were the MVAs...!
12 posted on
04/27/2008 6:26:34 AM PDT by
Snickersnee
(Where are we going? And what's with this handbasket?)
To: Stoat
Hemmingway was capable of world class hatreds, not that that’s always a bad thing.
15 posted on
04/27/2008 7:28:27 AM PDT by
Tijeras_Slim
(Play that Funky Music Typical White Boy!)
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