I was today years old when I learned that novelist Erica "Fear of Flying" Jong was married to novelist Jonathan Fast, son of better-known novelist Howard Fast. Their daughter, Molly Jong-Fast, is also a writer.
#HowardFast
#mirage di #EdwardDmytryk Tratto dal romanzo di #HowardFast – già autore di #spartacus pubblicato nel 1951, che ispirò #KirkDouglas e #StanleyKubrick per l’omonimo film, e fra le vittime più illustri del #Maccartismo – “Mirage”, oltre ad essere un classico e claustrofobico noir con tutti i crismi, tocca argomenti che diverranno molti comuni negli anni successivi come la pace nel mondo, il lato oscuro delle grandi società benefiche... #unocinema #unofilm #cinema #film
El 11 de noviembre de 1914
nace en Nueva York,
🖊️#HowardFast
Morirá en 2003.
Se le recuerda, sobre todo,
como escritor de #NovelaHistórica
gracias a,
📖Espartaco
Novela en que se basó la mítica
película de🎥#StanleyKubrick
Aunque también escribió buena #NovelaNegra y policíaca.
“I’m Spartacus”
The first draft of the screenplay for #Spartacus was written by #HowardFast, but he wasn’t quick enough to finish the job in time. Arthur Koestler’s The Gladiators, a movie with a similar theme, was on the way to production, and Kirk Douglas’s production company, Bryna Productions, which was producing Spartacus, needed to beat it to the screen.
So Douglas turned to the fastest pen in the West, #DaltonTrumbo — signed under the pseudonym Sam Jackson.
https://jacobin.com/2023/09/trumbo-fast-spartacus-hollywood-blacklists-red-scare
The slave Spartacus leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic.
Spartacus. Stanley Kubrick. 1960.
#SaturdayofAdventure #action #Spartacus #StanleyKubrick #KirkDouglas #classicmovie #TonyCurtis #drama #LaurenceOlivier #motionpicture #PeterUstinov #photography #CharlesLaughton #movie #Roma #slavery #biographical #history #epicmovie #adventures #adaptation #HowardFast
I always thought that socialism here would be peculiarly American, with some reasonable, post-industrial evolution between working-class needs and market forces. It won't be bloody like the Russian Revolution.... #HowardFast #quotes https://openquotes.github.io/authors/howard-fast-quotes/#3f5d020d
A critic is a eunuch working in a harem. He watches it, but he knows he can't do it. Critics very often are failed writers and, like failed priests, they hate religion.... #HowardFast #aphorisms https://openquotes.github.io/authors/howard-fast-quotes/#41d92abe
I was in federal prison in West Virginia for three months for contempt of Congress for a refusing to comply with a request of a Congressional committee of Congress, the House Un-American Activities Committee.... #HowardFast #quotations https://openquotes.github.io/authors/howard-fast-quotes/#bbf516ec
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