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Title: What Makes Sammy Run? by Budd Schulberg ISBN: 0-679-73422-8 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 06 December, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (18 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Hollywood Workaholic
Comment: It's the 1930s and Al Manheim thinks Sammy Glick is a ruthless individual. Even as a copy boy, Sammy would run all over everyone he met, including Al. After watching Sammy falsify himself into a successful Hollywood career, Al continues to wonder "What Makes Sammy Run?"
Everyone knows a 'Sammy Glick' or two, someone who appears to have no right to his or her successes. This book examines the phenomenon in a clever, often entertaining storyline. And by the end, we have an idea of what keeps him running.
One of the greatest 'Hollywood' novels ever written has made a television appearance in the 60s and even was the basis for a horrid little musical. But, the book has yet to make a transfer to the silver screen. (There are rumors that Ben Stiller is interested in changing that.) It comments on Unions, religion, relationships and even plagiarism. There's even some nice material on the human condition:
"We only hate the results of people. But people, Henry, aren't just results. They're a process. And to really give them a break we have to judge the process through which they became the result we see when we say So-and-so is a heel."
Budd (ON THE WATERFRONT) Schulburg's book includes the entire novel as well as the two short stories that inspired the book. You'll never look at Hollywood the same way again.
Rating: 5
Summary: A must read for anyone who wants to make it big in hollywood
Comment: This book has become a bible for climbing the hollywood ladder. Extremely well written, funny and stands the test of time.
Rating: 5
Summary: Budd Schulberg is a genius
Comment: And he's hilarious. Also read: "The Disenchanted." It's out of print but well worth the effort of finding it.
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Title: The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West, Alfred Kazin ISBN: 0451523482 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: September, 1983 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: The Harder They Fall: A Novel by Budd Schulberg ISBN: 1566631076 Publisher: Ivan R Dee, Inc. Pub. Date: March, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Down and Dirty Pictures : Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film by Peter Biskind ISBN: 068486259X Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 06 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: The Agency: William Morris and the Hidden History of Show Business by Frank Rose ISBN: 0887307493 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: August, 1995 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Disenchanted by Budd Schulberg ISBN: 9997413318 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: June, 1950 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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