tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22658920.post859438157267019682..comments2024-02-10T05:03:40.080-05:00Comments on AMERICAN LEFT HISTORY: *Hemingway-Up Close and Personal-"A Moveable Feast"-A Book Reviewamerican left historyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06882945935118479402noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22658920.post-80926185135883547642008-05-29T13:52:00.000-04:002008-05-29T13:52:00.000-04:00Does anyone have any information about Gertrude St...Does anyone have any information about Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklias in Paris in the 1920's? Hemingway brings up some information but I have not found much other information for the period. There is more intriguing (and disconcerting)information about them in the late 1930's and the onset of the Vichy period. <BR/><BR/>According to those sources Stein was visited by all the literary lions and lionesses in the 1920's but most vistors did not stay long. Personality problems they say. Is that true?american left historyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06882945935118479402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22658920.post-14239445501654109412008-05-29T13:20:00.000-04:002008-05-29T13:20:00.000-04:00Oops- This comment should go with the next blog on...Oops- This comment should go with the next blog on the review of Sweet Smell of Success. Markinamerican left historyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06882945935118479402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22658920.post-65415711994309284942008-05-29T13:07:00.000-04:002008-05-29T13:07:00.000-04:00Someone just reminded me that this Broadway column...Someone just reminded me that this Broadway columnist character played by Burt Lancaster was, at least partially, modelled on the real New York columnist Walter Winchell. If that is true then that he was even more scary than that columnist portrayed in the movie and underscores the power that such media figures have because Winchell was a well-known red-baiting in the latter part of his career in the 1950's. <BR/><BR/>Compare that picture of Winchell with the earlier take, as the smitten romantic news hawk, that Damon Runyon portrayed him as in the 1930's with his Guys and Dolls stories. Politically it is the red-baiting Winchell and his progeny at Fox Channel and elsewhere that we have to be aware of.american left historyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06882945935118479402noreply@blogger.com