Screening sickness and other tales of Tinsel Town ebook

by Ernest Lehman

One of Ernest Lehman's most remarkable achievements was fathering a child at age 8.

Lehman, Ernest, 1915-. Motion picture industry. Books for People with Print Disabilities. Internet Archive Books. org on August 25, 2011. SIMILAR ITEMS (based on metadata).

Screening Sickness and Other Tales of Tinsel Town, essays (1982). Lehman did, however, receive more honorable recognition from the Writers Guild of America than any other screenwriter in film history. Farewell Performance, novel (1982).

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Bibliographic Details. Greg Schwabe Books From California 51 W. Easy St Simi Valley, CA. Publication Date: 1982. Book Condition: Very Good. Signed: Signed by Author(s). 93065. Shipping Terms: Shipping costs are based on books weighing . LB, or 1 KG.

humor from behind the scenes in Hollywood.

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Lehman is best when not straining for angry laughs, when sticking close to his own experience: there's a very short but .

Lehman is best when not straining for angry laughs, when sticking close to his own experience: there's a very short but lightly evocative glimpse of the working process with Hitchcock (""He looks at you with great sympathy and says, But, Ernie, that's the way they do it in the movies""); there's an obvious but sadly effective sketch about a producer who lives on memories of a long-ago hit; and there's a nice quartet of anecdotes-in which four Lehman colleagues (Hitchcock, Mike Nichols, Cary Grant, Billy Wilder) put the movie business in proper perspectiv.

Screening Sickness and Other Tales of Tinsel Town (collected articles), New York, 1982. Farewell Performance (fiction), New York, 1982. By LEHMAN: articles-. Books by Lehman include The Comedian and Seven Other Stories (1957); the novels The French Atlantic Affair (1977) and Farewell Performance (1982); Screening Sickness and Other Tales of Tinseltown (1982); and Sweet Smell of Success and Other Stories (2000). bibliography: J. Brady, The Craft of the Screenwriter (1982).

Published 1982 by Putnam in New York, . 240 p. ; Number of pages.

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One of Ernest Lehman's most remarkable achievements was fathering a child at age 86.

As a screenwriter, he was Oscar nominated five times, for SABRINA (1954), NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959), WEST SIDE STORY (1961), WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (1966) and HELLO DOLLY! (1969). Lehman wrote the novella and screenplay to SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (1957), and scripted (among others) THE KING AND I (1956), THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965) and Hitchcock's FAMILY PLOT (1978). Yet, as Lehman wryly cites in his pseudonymically-written intro to SCREENING SICKNESS (1982), he also scripted, produced and directed PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT (1972), a film many at the time named as worst of the year. (As of 9/13, it's still only available on Warner Archive DVD-R.)

The dozens of short pieces in "Screening Sickness" are at times snarkily condescending, at others angry parodies of the American culture as it relates to motion pictures, both inside the industry and with "civilians." Lehman's attempts at bantering wordplay don't amuse, and his veiled references to actors, directors and producers aren't worth trying to decipher.

Among the many topics raised within these 240 pages...

A "Mommie Dearest" spoof where his agent inflicts corporal punishment on Lehman to force a rewrite of his nihilistic SOUND OF MUSIC first draft.

"Ingevar Broodman," a Norwegian director known for lugubrious dramas who shocks formerly supportive film critics with a rollicking comic bio of his own 14 marriages (including to "Ingrit Boredman").

Numerous FAMILY PLOT script conferences with Hitch that never accomplish a thing.

The neuroses of being Oscar-nominated (Who to thank if you win? What to wear? Who to invite to sit at your table? etc.)

A neighborhood theater owner's innovation that terrifies audiences grown blasé from too many bloodbath films: the risk of actual death.

The ad nauseum fuss over Brian De Palma's DRESSED TO KILL (1980).

His title piece explores stresses caused by Tinsel Town's private showings of as-yet-unreleased movies. (What one says to creators of both bad and good works. How to stay popular and in the Bel Air home theater cliqué.)

A self-loathing TV film critic who can't look in the mirror while shaving because of his shame over reviewing what he most hates: motion pictures.

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Perhaps Lehman's "Helman Sterne" introduction best sums him up:
"Dissatisfaction. That's the key to his character. That's what underlies everything he writes. That's where the bitterness comes from."

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