Posts Tagged ‘F. Scott Fitzgerald’
Franchot Tone Reads an Excerpt from “The Great Gatsby”
Posted: May 27, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Hideous Music and the Sound of Many ShotgunsTags: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Franchot Tone, The Great Gatsby, writers, writing
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Long Island
Posted: February 25, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Hideous Music and the Sound of Many ShotgunsTags: books, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Long Island, writers, writing
Reviving the Fitzgerald Petition
Posted: October 21, 2009 by Rodger Jacobs in Hideous Music and the Sound of Many ShotgunsTags: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Los Angeles City Council, Petition Online, writers, writing
In January of 2005 I launched an online petition with a fairly simple mission statement: We, the undersigned, petition the members of the Hollywood, California, Chamber of Commerce to rename the intersection of North Hayworth Avenue and West Sunset Boulevard in honor of the late F. Scott Fitzgerald on this 65th anniversary of his death. [...]
Preview of Coming Attractions
Posted: October 12, 2009 by Rodger Jacobs in Hideous Music and the Sound of Many ShotgunsTags: F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Last Tycoon
From Elia Kazan’s 1976 adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Last Tycoon, with Robert DeNiro as studio mogul Monroe Stahr and Jack Nicholson as screenwriter-unionist Brimmer. Screenplay adaptation by Harold Pinter.
Absolution
Posted: July 3, 2009 by Rodger Jacobs in Hideous Music and the Sound of Many ShotgunsTags: Absolution, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Las Vegas, writers, writing
“Go to an amusement park one day. It’s a thing like a fair, only much more glittering. Go to one at night and stand a little way off from it in a dark place — under dark trees. You’ll see a big wheel made of lights turning in the air, and a long slide shooting [...]
