From The Economist (thanks to ArtsJournal):
"Cornell University, for example, recently reviewed its policies on journal acquisition. In the course of that review it noted that between 1986 and 2001 the library budget at its main campus in Ithaca, New York, increased by 149%. The number of periodicals purchased, however, grew by only 5% "
Thursday, August 12, 2004
How Islamic is Al Qaeda?
Not very, says Mustafa Akyol:
"Paul Johnson, an American engineer, was killed by al Qaeda after being kidnapped, as was Kim Sun-il, a 33-year-old South Korean. So was Nick Berg savagely slaughtered by militants. These horrible episodes are disgusting, by every human standard. What makes them even more repulsive is that they are committed in the name of Islam."
"Paul Johnson, an American engineer, was killed by al Qaeda after being kidnapped, as was Kim Sun-il, a 33-year-old South Korean. So was Nick Berg savagely slaughtered by militants. These horrible episodes are disgusting, by every human standard. What makes them even more repulsive is that they are committed in the name of Islam."
Wednesday, August 11, 2004
Terror in America
A history exhibit at the I N T E R N A T I O N A L . S P Y . M U S E U M. (Tip of the hat to Ken Layne.
More on Bremer v. Chalabi
From the Wall Street Journal:
"One particular concern vis-a-vis the U.N. strategy was that Mr. Chalabi was starting to expose the massive corruption that had characterized the Oil for Food program. Just prior the May raid, Mr. Bremer shut down the KPMG investigation that Mr. Chalabi had initiated, and hired accountants Ernst & Young instead, for no apparent reason other than delay."
"One particular concern vis-a-vis the U.N. strategy was that Mr. Chalabi was starting to expose the massive corruption that had characterized the Oil for Food program. Just prior the May raid, Mr. Bremer shut down the KPMG investigation that Mr. Chalabi had initiated, and hired accountants Ernst & Young instead, for no apparent reason other than delay."
Buddhist Militants in Sri Lanka
From the Weekly Standard:
"Militant Buddhism may sound like a contradiction in terms, especially while Islamic holy war is hogging the headlines. Nevertheless, in one of its periodic flare-ups in Sri Lanka, extremist Buddhist nationalism is threatening both the physical safety and the legal rights of that nation's Christian minority."
"Militant Buddhism may sound like a contradiction in terms, especially while Islamic holy war is hogging the headlines. Nevertheless, in one of its periodic flare-ups in Sri Lanka, extremist Buddhist nationalism is threatening both the physical safety and the legal rights of that nation's Christian minority."
An Interview with Brian Lamb
From August 1999, with Michael H. Ebner :
"Few individuals have done more to promote the reading of history and biography than Brian Lamb. C-SPAN has created a unique way for people in this country--and ninety other nations worldwide--to witness history in the making. Millions have watched its coverage of the political processes in Washington; Senate coverage of the Persian Gulf War in 1991 reached 32.3 million subscribers alone. Lamb has also interviewed hundreds of historians and biographers--among them many OAH [Organization of American Historians] members--on his Booknotes program and since last year on his weekend Book TV program on C-SPAN 2."
"Few individuals have done more to promote the reading of history and biography than Brian Lamb. C-SPAN has created a unique way for people in this country--and ninety other nations worldwide--to witness history in the making. Millions have watched its coverage of the political processes in Washington; Senate coverage of the Persian Gulf War in 1991 reached 32.3 million subscribers alone. Lamb has also interviewed hundreds of historians and biographers--among them many OAH [Organization of American Historians] members--on his Booknotes program and since last year on his weekend Book TV program on C-SPAN 2."
End of an Era
Brian Lamb cancels C-SPAN's "Booknotes":
"In announcing the cancellation of 'Booknotes' -- C-SPAN's popular author interview program -- yesterday, host Brian Lamb was haunted by the numbers. He spends 20 hours each week reading books in preparation for 'Booknotes,' he estimates. That's 1.8 years of his life that have been dedicated to reading since the show debuted April 2, 1989. Now he wants to reclaim some of that time for his personal life.
Has it come to this? The author-interviewer, arguably the most quirky and dedicated on television, the creator and curator of one of TV's few institutions for avid readers -- has he finally tired of books? "
"In announcing the cancellation of 'Booknotes' -- C-SPAN's popular author interview program -- yesterday, host Brian Lamb was haunted by the numbers. He spends 20 hours each week reading books in preparation for 'Booknotes,' he estimates. That's 1.8 years of his life that have been dedicated to reading since the show debuted April 2, 1989. Now he wants to reclaim some of that time for his personal life.
Has it come to this? The author-interviewer, arguably the most quirky and dedicated on television, the creator and curator of one of TV's few institutions for avid readers -- has he finally tired of books? "
Tuesday, August 10, 2004
Victor Davis Hanson on John Lewis Gaddis
He reviews Wars New and Old:
"All this is a sober reflection on current events, and a needed reminder that President Bush is acting in line with a long American tradition, even if Gaddis thinks he could learn from FDR's political savvy when it comes to getting along with allies."
"All this is a sober reflection on current events, and a needed reminder that President Bush is acting in line with a long American tradition, even if Gaddis thinks he could learn from FDR's political savvy when it comes to getting along with allies."
Why Kerry Will Win
From Newsmax:
"Kerry is no Al Gore. He is not going to sigh, roll his eyes and make up huge fabrications in the debates. Instead, he is going to be relentlessly on the attack.
"Kerry is ahead in every way right now. True, there are still three months to go. But the trends are all pro-Kerry."
"Kerry is no Al Gore. He is not going to sigh, roll his eyes and make up huge fabrications in the debates. Instead, he is going to be relentlessly on the attack.
"Kerry is ahead in every way right now. True, there are still three months to go. But the trends are all pro-Kerry."
Will Turkey Make It?
Stephen Kinzer in The New York Review of Books wonders:
"Nine centuries after Pope Urban II sent the first Crusaders off to fight 'the Turk,' 321 years after the Ottoman army besieged Vienna, Turkey and Europe are approaching a historic encounter. In December, leaders of European Union countries will vote on whether to begin negotiations that would lead to Turkey's joining the EU. Every day it seems more likely that they will say yes."
"Nine centuries after Pope Urban II sent the first Crusaders off to fight 'the Turk,' 321 years after the Ottoman army besieged Vienna, Turkey and Europe are approaching a historic encounter. In December, leaders of European Union countries will vote on whether to begin negotiations that would lead to Turkey's joining the EU. Every day it seems more likely that they will say yes."
To be Young, Gifted, and a Black Conductor
A profile of Kwame Ryan in The Guardian: "
"The young, British-educated conductor making his UK debut at the opening concert of the Edinburgh international festival this week said yesterday that he had 'no optimism for the future' for black children making it as the stars of classical music. Canadian-born Kwame Ryan, 34, went to school in Britain and studied music at Cambridge University before continuing his training in Germany.
"But the message given to young, black people, particularly in North America, was, he said, that you can be a star athlete; you can be a pop star. 'But neither of those require a special education. To be a conductor you have to start very young and the awareness that that is a possibility for black children is not encouraged in schools or in the media.'"
"The young, British-educated conductor making his UK debut at the opening concert of the Edinburgh international festival this week said yesterday that he had 'no optimism for the future' for black children making it as the stars of classical music. Canadian-born Kwame Ryan, 34, went to school in Britain and studied music at Cambridge University before continuing his training in Germany.
"But the message given to young, black people, particularly in North America, was, he said, that you can be a star athlete; you can be a pop star. 'But neither of those require a special education. To be a conductor you have to start very young and the awareness that that is a possibility for black children is not encouraged in schools or in the media.'"
Monday, August 09, 2004
Why Kerry Will Lose The Election
From the San Francisco Chronicle:
"John Kerry will lose this election, and he will do so decisively. The defeat will go down as perhaps the only thing this candidate has ever done decisively."
"John Kerry will lose this election, and he will do so decisively. The defeat will go down as perhaps the only thing this candidate has ever done decisively."
How President Bush Treats His (Former) Friends
Michael Rubin says Chalabi is being trashed under orders from Paul Bremer:
"On August 8, Iraqi judge Zuhair al-Maliky issued arrest warrants for Iraqi National Congress head Ahmad Chalabi and Salem Chalabi, a trilingual Yale graduate heading the special tribunal that is trying Saddam Hussein for crimes against humanity.
"Al-Maliky's actions have less to do with imposing justice than obstructing it. Most Iraqi judges dispute not only al-Maliky's credentials but also those of the Central Criminal Court over which he presides. The court is not Iraqi in its origins. Former Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) administrator L. Paul Bremer created it by fiat on June 18, 2003. The head of Iraq's judicial union called the court unconstitutional and illegal. Most Iraqi judges consider it to be contrary to the Geneva Conventions; many Iraqis justices read several clauses in the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 to forbid changing unnecessarily the judicial system..."
"On August 8, Iraqi judge Zuhair al-Maliky issued arrest warrants for Iraqi National Congress head Ahmad Chalabi and Salem Chalabi, a trilingual Yale graduate heading the special tribunal that is trying Saddam Hussein for crimes against humanity.
"Al-Maliky's actions have less to do with imposing justice than obstructing it. Most Iraqi judges dispute not only al-Maliky's credentials but also those of the Central Criminal Court over which he presides. The court is not Iraqi in its origins. Former Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) administrator L. Paul Bremer created it by fiat on June 18, 2003. The head of Iraq's judicial union called the court unconstitutional and illegal. Most Iraqi judges consider it to be contrary to the Geneva Conventions; many Iraqis justices read several clauses in the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 to forbid changing unnecessarily the judicial system..."
The Real Horatio Hornblower
Last night watched an episode of A & E's British ITV series Horatio Hornblower.
It was a thrilling show called "Duel", available on a Netflix DVD.
This Hornblower episode was so terrific that I googled C.S. Forester. Interestingly, the name Hornblower was inspired by Forester's Hollywood producer, Arthur Hornblow, Jr.. Here's his biography from Yahoo! Movies.
Although he had his problems with Hollywood, Forester loved America and returned in WWII to write propaganda films. Forester eventually settled in Berkeley, California.
And here's a link to the C. S. Forester Society.
It was a thrilling show called "Duel", available on a Netflix DVD.
This Hornblower episode was so terrific that I googled C.S. Forester. Interestingly, the name Hornblower was inspired by Forester's Hollywood producer, Arthur Hornblow, Jr.. Here's his biography from Yahoo! Movies.
Although he had his problems with Hollywood, Forester loved America and returned in WWII to write propaganda films. Forester eventually settled in Berkeley, California.
And here's a link to the C. S. Forester Society.
Kerry's Filmmaker's Problem
The New York Observer profiles James Moll, who directed John Kerry's convention film, "A Remarkable Promise" :
The Observer notes: "Since 1994, when he was hired by Mr. Spielberg to assemble an archive of interviews with Holocaust survivors, Mr. Moll has found himself producing a number of Holocaust films and documentaries about the Second World War.
'I approached it like I do all my documentaries,' he said of Mr. Kerry's introduction. 'I didn't think of it as a commercial. For the most part, other than those last 15 seconds, I approached like any other documentary. I didn't have to be manipulative.'"
Unfortunately, Moll's track record as a documentary filmmaker is not without question, although he did win an Oscar. When his Holocaust film, "The Last Days" appeared, it was criticized by WWII veterans as misleading and manipulative. I wrote about the controversy in The Idler:
"An interesting letter about Stephen Spielberg’s The Last Days was recently forwarded to me by Mel Rappaport, who as an army captain during World War II participated in the liberation of Buchenwald by the 6th Armored Division in April, 1945, 54 years ago... He sent me an article by Mark Schulte which had appeared in the New York Post about Stephen Spielberg’s documentary 'The Last Days'. Schulte, the son of a WWII veteran who liberated the camps, demanded the film be recalled because it was false history.
"Like 'Liberators', 'The Last Days' did not credit the actual soldiers who liberated Dachau -- the 45th Infantry Division. Instead it featured an interview with a black soldier to create the impression that an all-black unit had opened up the camp. Rappaport told me that the interview subject had been in Le Havre, France at the time, and he had documentation to prove it. Again, Rappaport feared that truth was being distorted to promote a political agenda. As with Liberators, Rappaport and his friends mobilized, writing letters and calling to complain to the producers.
"Like Liberators, this film about the Hungarian Jewish community had been embraced by the Establishment, promoted by Jewish groups, screened for members of Congress and nominated for an Academy Award.
"Unlike Liberators, it won.
"But the problem was the same. The film was not true."
You can read the whole story here.
UPDATE: AN EMAIL FROM MEL RAPPAPORT (received yesterday):
"re this fellow james moll, the --NOT so
great , director . etc ,,, way back when that film by mr Spielberg
...'the last days'-came out, we wrote many letters to him and the
SHOAH group in los angeles calif etc ,,,, and he called all of US
RACISTS and worse. etc . well we got the news paper
''''the FORWARD'' here in N Y C to get invoved and they did write some
editor. letters re this guy MOLL. i even wrote to the fellow in
charge of the ""ACADEMY -in hollywood , etc" re this film winning
that award,,, and he wrote to me,, saying he was SHOCKED,,SHOCKED (like
claude rains in Casablanca with bogie ,,,etc) but that they
can do NADA,.. it was not their job etc ,, i will send you that
letter if i can find it..."
UPDATE: THE FORWARD'S EDITORIAL ABOUT "THE LAST DAYS":
February 26, 1999
Correcting Spielberg
The chief historian for Steven Spielberg's Holocaust documentary, "The Last Days," has struck the right note by saying he will look into the question of where one of the film's heroes, Paul Parks, was when he shot the German soldier who spit on him. Mr. Parks, an American G.I. in Germany as the war was brought to an end, told our columnist Beth Pinsker that he thinks the film misportrays the situation by suggesting he shot the Nazi right outside of Dachau when, as Mr. Parks remembers, it was at another time and another place. Other questions about the film's accuracy were raised in an article in the New York Post. The film's historian, Michael Berenbaum, formerly the director of the United States Holocaust Research Institute at the Holocaust Memorial Museum, is a former newspaperman of the school that would like to get things right. His attitude contrasts with that of the director of "The Last Days," James Moll, who at one point in his conversations with our Ms. Pinsker suggested that the only reason Ms. Pinsker, or anyone else, was inquiring on the point was because Mr. Parks is black and his interlocutors are racists. Balderdash. It seems the Holocaust movie business is still smarting over the discovery that a now infamous documentary aired on PBS, "Liberators," was way off base in suggesting that Dachau and Buchenwald were first liberated by African-American units. Nobody is saying that "The Last Days" has any fundamental error of the kind that undergirded "Liberators" and nobody is saying that Mr. Parks is not a war hero. What Ms. Pinsker understands from her days as a film and television critic, though, is that there is a tendency toward romanticism when Hollywood enters the journalism or documentary business. Committed custodians of the memory, like Mr. Berenbaum, understand the need for continuing the effort to get it exactly right.
NOTE: A BOSTON GLOBE INVESTIGATION BACKED RAPPAPORT AGAINST MOLL
"UNTANGLING PAUL PARKS'S TALL TALES\ RECORDS CONTRADICT MORE WARTIME STORIES
Published on October 22, 2000
Author(s): Walter V. Robinson, and Thomas Farragher, Globe Staff
"BERLIN - When Boston civil rights leader Paul Parks receives the Raoul Wallenberg Award here tonight for his 1945 role in liberating the Dachau concentration camp, the applause may be tentative, given fresh evidence that he was nowhere near the Nazi death camp and that his multiple stories about his involvement in the D-day landing were also concocted..."
(There is a charge to download the article from the Boston Globe online archives).
You can listen to reporter Walter Robinson talk about problems with Paul Parks' story in third segment of Here and Now, a WBUR radio program, click on the button to play.
Interestingly, Robinson has published exposes of George W. Bush, historian Joseph Ellis, and Al Gore.
The Observer notes: "Since 1994, when he was hired by Mr. Spielberg to assemble an archive of interviews with Holocaust survivors, Mr. Moll has found himself producing a number of Holocaust films and documentaries about the Second World War.
'I approached it like I do all my documentaries,' he said of Mr. Kerry's introduction. 'I didn't think of it as a commercial. For the most part, other than those last 15 seconds, I approached like any other documentary. I didn't have to be manipulative.'"
Unfortunately, Moll's track record as a documentary filmmaker is not without question, although he did win an Oscar. When his Holocaust film, "The Last Days" appeared, it was criticized by WWII veterans as misleading and manipulative. I wrote about the controversy in The Idler:
"An interesting letter about Stephen Spielberg’s The Last Days was recently forwarded to me by Mel Rappaport, who as an army captain during World War II participated in the liberation of Buchenwald by the 6th Armored Division in April, 1945, 54 years ago... He sent me an article by Mark Schulte which had appeared in the New York Post about Stephen Spielberg’s documentary 'The Last Days'. Schulte, the son of a WWII veteran who liberated the camps, demanded the film be recalled because it was false history.
"Like 'Liberators', 'The Last Days' did not credit the actual soldiers who liberated Dachau -- the 45th Infantry Division. Instead it featured an interview with a black soldier to create the impression that an all-black unit had opened up the camp. Rappaport told me that the interview subject had been in Le Havre, France at the time, and he had documentation to prove it. Again, Rappaport feared that truth was being distorted to promote a political agenda. As with Liberators, Rappaport and his friends mobilized, writing letters and calling to complain to the producers.
"Like Liberators, this film about the Hungarian Jewish community had been embraced by the Establishment, promoted by Jewish groups, screened for members of Congress and nominated for an Academy Award.
"Unlike Liberators, it won.
"But the problem was the same. The film was not true."
You can read the whole story here.
UPDATE: AN EMAIL FROM MEL RAPPAPORT (received yesterday):
"re this fellow james moll, the --NOT so
great , director . etc ,,, way back when that film by mr Spielberg
...'the last days'-came out, we wrote many letters to him and the
SHOAH group in los angeles calif etc ,,,, and he called all of US
RACISTS and worse. etc . well we got the news paper
''''the FORWARD'' here in N Y C to get invoved and they did write some
editor. letters re this guy MOLL. i even wrote to the fellow in
charge of the ""ACADEMY -in hollywood , etc" re this film winning
that award,,, and he wrote to me,, saying he was SHOCKED,,SHOCKED (like
claude rains in Casablanca with bogie ,,,etc) but that they
can do NADA,.. it was not their job etc ,, i will send you that
letter if i can find it..."
UPDATE: THE FORWARD'S EDITORIAL ABOUT "THE LAST DAYS":
February 26, 1999
Correcting Spielberg
The chief historian for Steven Spielberg's Holocaust documentary, "The Last Days," has struck the right note by saying he will look into the question of where one of the film's heroes, Paul Parks, was when he shot the German soldier who spit on him. Mr. Parks, an American G.I. in Germany as the war was brought to an end, told our columnist Beth Pinsker that he thinks the film misportrays the situation by suggesting he shot the Nazi right outside of Dachau when, as Mr. Parks remembers, it was at another time and another place. Other questions about the film's accuracy were raised in an article in the New York Post. The film's historian, Michael Berenbaum, formerly the director of the United States Holocaust Research Institute at the Holocaust Memorial Museum, is a former newspaperman of the school that would like to get things right. His attitude contrasts with that of the director of "The Last Days," James Moll, who at one point in his conversations with our Ms. Pinsker suggested that the only reason Ms. Pinsker, or anyone else, was inquiring on the point was because Mr. Parks is black and his interlocutors are racists. Balderdash. It seems the Holocaust movie business is still smarting over the discovery that a now infamous documentary aired on PBS, "Liberators," was way off base in suggesting that Dachau and Buchenwald were first liberated by African-American units. Nobody is saying that "The Last Days" has any fundamental error of the kind that undergirded "Liberators" and nobody is saying that Mr. Parks is not a war hero. What Ms. Pinsker understands from her days as a film and television critic, though, is that there is a tendency toward romanticism when Hollywood enters the journalism or documentary business. Committed custodians of the memory, like Mr. Berenbaum, understand the need for continuing the effort to get it exactly right.
NOTE: A BOSTON GLOBE INVESTIGATION BACKED RAPPAPORT AGAINST MOLL
"UNTANGLING PAUL PARKS'S TALL TALES\ RECORDS CONTRADICT MORE WARTIME STORIES
Published on October 22, 2000
Author(s): Walter V. Robinson, and Thomas Farragher, Globe Staff
"BERLIN - When Boston civil rights leader Paul Parks receives the Raoul Wallenberg Award here tonight for his 1945 role in liberating the Dachau concentration camp, the applause may be tentative, given fresh evidence that he was nowhere near the Nazi death camp and that his multiple stories about his involvement in the D-day landing were also concocted..."
(There is a charge to download the article from the Boston Globe online archives).
You can listen to reporter Walter Robinson talk about problems with Paul Parks' story in third segment of Here and Now, a WBUR radio program, click on the button to play.
Interestingly, Robinson has published exposes of George W. Bush, historian Joseph Ellis, and Al Gore.
Understanding Turkey
Michael Rubin on his visit to Turkey:
"Last month, I visited Turkey for a series of meetings with Turkish government and military officials, as well as prominent journalists and public intellectuals. 'Why have you abandoned us?' one Turkish parliamentarian asked as we drank tea in his office. 'You toss aside an 80-year tradition for an experiment in political Islam,' he explained. He cited not only the president's statement, but also that of U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell. Speaking in Ankara last April, Powell called Turkey a model for Iraq, 'a Muslim democracy living in peace with its friends and neighbors.' National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice has made similar comments.
"Nice words, infused with well-meaning Washington-style political correctness, but they raised hackles in Turkey. 'We are a democracy. Islam has nothing to do with it,' one professor said. 'By calling us a Muslim democracy, Powell endorsed the [ruling] AKP [Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi]. If I called the United States a Christian democracy, what would that say to you?' "
Interestingly enough, a few years ago I attended a panel discussion in Washington where an Israeli general called Turkey a "Muslim country" in a presentation about geopolitics. The Turkish ambassador immediately spoke up, clearly offended. He stated that Turkey was not a Muslim country, rather a secular nation with a Muslim population. Since this distinction is one other nations sometimes fail to make, it is not surprising that Powell's well-meaning comment raised some hackles in Ankara and Istanbul.
"Last month, I visited Turkey for a series of meetings with Turkish government and military officials, as well as prominent journalists and public intellectuals. 'Why have you abandoned us?' one Turkish parliamentarian asked as we drank tea in his office. 'You toss aside an 80-year tradition for an experiment in political Islam,' he explained. He cited not only the president's statement, but also that of U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell. Speaking in Ankara last April, Powell called Turkey a model for Iraq, 'a Muslim democracy living in peace with its friends and neighbors.' National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice has made similar comments.
"Nice words, infused with well-meaning Washington-style political correctness, but they raised hackles in Turkey. 'We are a democracy. Islam has nothing to do with it,' one professor said. 'By calling us a Muslim democracy, Powell endorsed the [ruling] AKP [Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi]. If I called the United States a Christian democracy, what would that say to you?' "
Interestingly enough, a few years ago I attended a panel discussion in Washington where an Israeli general called Turkey a "Muslim country" in a presentation about geopolitics. The Turkish ambassador immediately spoke up, clearly offended. He stated that Turkey was not a Muslim country, rather a secular nation with a Muslim population. Since this distinction is one other nations sometimes fail to make, it is not surprising that Powell's well-meaning comment raised some hackles in Ankara and Istanbul.
Sunday, August 08, 2004
Roger L. Simon
An interesting blog:
"Secretly terrified I was a big fake and would never be a writer, I considered quitting school, but couldn't because I would lose my student deferment and go to Vietnam. So more out of a sense of panic than anything else, I wrote my first novel HEIR. I composed the book over a stiflingly hot summer in the front office of an African-American funeral home in Sumter, South Carolina, the only air conditioned spot available to a Northern white boy civil rights worker. The plot was a thinly veiled fictionalization of the life of a rich fellow Dartmouth student who accidentally killed his girlfriend with an overdose of heroin. The book was published for a small advance, got a couple of good reviews and sold about five copies; that includes to my family.
"Subsequently it was made into an unwatchable movie, but I used the film sale as a bridge to Hollywood, and soon I was out in LA, trying to write screenplays, even make films, something I have been attempting with greater and lesser success ever since."
"Secretly terrified I was a big fake and would never be a writer, I considered quitting school, but couldn't because I would lose my student deferment and go to Vietnam. So more out of a sense of panic than anything else, I wrote my first novel HEIR. I composed the book over a stiflingly hot summer in the front office of an African-American funeral home in Sumter, South Carolina, the only air conditioned spot available to a Northern white boy civil rights worker. The plot was a thinly veiled fictionalization of the life of a rich fellow Dartmouth student who accidentally killed his girlfriend with an overdose of heroin. The book was published for a small advance, got a couple of good reviews and sold about five copies; that includes to my family.
"Subsequently it was made into an unwatchable movie, but I used the film sale as a bridge to Hollywood, and soon I was out in LA, trying to write screenplays, even make films, something I have been attempting with greater and lesser success ever since."
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