What Makes Sammy Run?

...writer Budd Schulberg ("On the Waterfront"), who died on Wednesday. Schulberg introduced the world to Glick in his 1941 novel "What Makes Sammy Run?" The controversial bestseller put the young Schulberg on the map. Over the decades,...

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I was lucky enough to meet Budd Schulberg, the legendary novelist and screenwriter responsible for "On the Waterfront," "What Makes Sammy Run?" and other classics, who died this week at 95. It happened at the 2003 Telluride Film Festival. I...

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...the story was too individualist and "insufficiently progressive." (Hollywood communists were never known for their sense of humor.) After the novel was published, and not realizing the party had already frowned on Schulberg's work, a young...

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...for book and screen. He was blunt and acid about life's fortunes in an era that celebrated the American way of life. His first novel, "What Makes Sammy Run?" (1941), was about vice being rewarded. Its titular hero, Sammy Glick, a newspaper...

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...reading of his "On the Waterfront.'' Budd Schulberg, 95, the son of a studio boss who defined the Hollywood hustle with his novel "What Makes Sammy Run?'' and later proved himself a player with his Oscar-winning screenplay for "On the...

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...director (Elia Kazan), supporting actress (Eva Marie Saint) and actor (Marlon Brando). Budd Schulberg dies at 95; author of 'What Makes Sammy Run?' Budd Schulberg in 2005. His greatest success came with On the Waterfront. His...

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...Pictures chief B.P. Schulberg, was born in New York City in 1914 and first gained acclaim as a novelist in the 1940s with books such as "What Makes Sammy Run." His screenwriting included 1957's "A Face in the Crowd," but it was the...

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NEW YORK -- Budd Schulberg, the son of a studio boss who defined the Hollywood hustle with his novel "What Makes Sammy Run?" and later proved himself a player with his Oscar-winning screenplay for "On the Waterfront," died Wednesday at age...

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...documentary project for the Army as World War II was ending, and arrested Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler's propagandist. Back in the USA, He wrote "What Makes Sammy Run," "On the Waterfront," "The Harder They Fall," and "A Face in the Crowd." And...

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...'On the Waterfront' screenplay NEW YORK - Budd Schulberg, the son of a studio boss who defined the Hollywood hustle with his novel "What Makes Sammy Run?'' and later proved himself a player with his Oscar-winning screenplay for "On the...

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