Fitzgerald escritor, Pat Hobby roteirista

Do Sunday Book Review: Essay Fitzgerald vs. Hollywood By PAUL GREENBERG “Most writers,” the writer F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote, “look like writers whether they want to or not. It is hard to say why.” Looking out over the not unruly mob picketing in front of Rockefeller Center during the first week of the writers’ strike this past November, I was struck by the truth of Fitzgerald’s words. Off to my left, Tom Fontana, the creator of the HBO series “Oz,” shoved his hands in his pocket and rolled his shoulders into the wind, like a writer. To my right, an erudite and charming friend who writes an educational cartoon your children watch stroked his beard and picked at his ear very much like a writer. Even an elusive beauty from the staff of “Sex and the City” whom I had futilely dated a few years back now looked, with her suspect glance across the crowd, more than anything else, like a writer. Of course there are exceptions — not all writers look like writers. One writer in particular, Fitzgerald noted, didn’t look anything like a writer. Continua aqui.

*** Para ler The Pat Hobby Stories, publicadas em Esquire entre janeiro de 1940 e maio de 1941, acesse o PGA (Project Gutenberg of Australia).