A. E. Hotchner

"What can I tell you?" said his business partner and friend A.E. Hotchner when we spoke Saturday morning. "He was my co-adventurer for 52 years."

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"The Good Life According to Hemingway," out next month, A.E. Hotchner, who traveled the globe with him, bares a series of never-before-published slaps Hemingway took at the film business. Darryl F. Zanuck, the boss of 20th Century Fox, was trashed when he asked Hemingway to shorten the title of "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," which starred Gregory Peck. Hotchner quotes Hemingway, "I said, you want something short and exciting that will catch the eye of both sexes, right?" He then reeled off the first letters of Hollywood studio names that together spelled out the F-word. "That should fit all the marquees and you can't beat it as a sex symbol."

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"It's all over," he said. Hotchner said their food business, Newman's Own, has given away $150 million and will give away $26 million more to "a wide variety of charities" in October. Asked what he remembered most about Newman, Hotchner said, "The great fun we had - the mischief. Everything we did was a lark."

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"He was my co-adventurer for 52 years." The two men met in 1956 when Hotchner, who was Ernest Hemingway's biographer, adapted his short story, "The Battler," for television. "James Dean was supposed to be the lead, but he died in the car crash," Hotchner said. "So Arthur Penn, the director, moved Paul up to that part."

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"The food business we started as a lark," Mr Hotchner said. "It was not really intended to be anything that would last more than a few months. "

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"He said, 'If I am going to do a tacky thing like that for money, then I think we should go to the people who support it, not to my pocket or your pocket. Why don't we just give it all away?'," Mr Hotchner said. "He said something like what Hemingway said: 'You don't own anything until you give it away'. "

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"As a matter of fact," Mr. Hotchner said Saturday in an interview, "a couple of wretched boats. "

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