Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell is This?
“Chapter 14 BAD FIGHTS 1937-1941 Hollywood offered an uncommonly rich lode of raw material for satire. Although Dorothy loathed the place, she was unable to write anything about it. Instead, she merely looked on while friends published their observations in books for which she often composed laudatory reviews. Nathanael West finished The Day of the Locust, Budd Schulberg wrote What Makes Sammy Run?, and Sid Perelman reeled out sulfurous pieces ridiculing the movie titans who “forgather in their... knotty-pine libraries beside the murmurous Pacific” while cigar smoke “wreathes their Renoirs.” Scott Fitzgerald, who was eventually inspired to write The Last Tycoon about the legendary Irving Thalberg, arrived in Hollywood during the summer of 1937. Seeing him again triggered Dorothy’s guilt about abandoning her fiction writing.Dorothy’s former drinking companion looked pale and his hair had begun to thin, but he was unquestionably functional. He explained with great pride that he had been on the wagon for ten months.MoreLess
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