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What Makes Sammy Run? - by Budd Schulberg (Paperback)

What Makes Sammy Run? - by  Budd Schulberg (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>The classic book that shaped two generations' view of the movie business and introduced the archetypal Hollywood player Sammy Glick. He's got a machete mouth and a genius for double-cross. As Budd Shulberg--author of the screenplay <i>On the Waterfront</i>--follows Sammy's relentless upward progress, he creates a virtuoso study in character that manages to be hilariously appalling yet deeply compassionate. <p/> "Sammy Glick remains at the top of the Hollywood sleaze heap, a hustler nonpareil.... What Makes Sammy Run? Is still the quintessential novel about "the all-American heel.'" - Moredcai Richler, <i>GQ</i><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Budd Schulberg wrote <i>On the Waterfront</i>, made into a movie starring Marlon Brando, and <i>The Harder They Fall</i>, made into a movie starring Humphrey Bogart. He won an Oscar for the screenplay of <i>On the Waterfront</i> several awards for his film <i>A Face in the Crowd</i>, and a Tony nomination for his Broadway adaptation of <i>The Disenchanted</i>. He attributed his ability to adapt his own work to stage or screen to his upbringing in Hollywood, where his father ran a major motion-picture studio. He died in 2009 at the age of 95.

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