Posted on 08/06/2009 7:42:47 AM PDT by EveningStar
Budd Schulberg, who wrote the award-winning screenplay for On the Waterfront and created a classic American archetype of naked ambition, Sammy Glick, in his novel What Makes Sammy Run?, died on Wednesday. He was 95 and lived in the Brookside section of Westhampton Beach, N.Y.
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R.I.P. Great writer.
What Makes Sammy Run was a GREAT book. Timeless. You should read it.
Wait for the corrections page tomorrow. Maybe it was just a cold.
A great man who turned his back on the Communist Party and outed 8 other Hollywood Communists in the 50s.
Funny the Commie NY Times didn’t mention any of this!
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