ENTERTAINMENT
Why Can't
the Movie
Be More Like
the Book? W
IS
A best-selling novelist
learns the answer from
some Hollywood experts
including an
uncannily clever
Marlon Brando
By EUGENE BURDICK
Coauthor of "Th Ugly Amorkan" and "Foil-Sato"
No one is certain when Hollywood get the idea of making movies
out of books. Whenever it was., it started one of the most persistent
nonviolent wars.of- modern times;
Literary warriors as powerful as Hemingway and Faulkner have sal
lied forth to Hollywood armed with sound boo;ks and high enthusiasm
and emerged from the fray with shaking nerves and palsied hands.
Early in the movie negotiations for the sale of our book, The Ugly
American, William Lederer and I were approached by a character who
epitomized the classic idea of a Hollywood movie studio's frontromce
representative. He wore Italian silk suits, white-on-white shirts, and a
Dunhill cigar in his mouth. He drank martini's of imported English gin.
He swore vilely, but he called Lederer and me "darling." He looked like
a hoiod f ro;m. central casting. He was perfect.
He held a copy of The Ugly American in his hand. "I haven't read
it," he said around the cigar. "Somebody else does that. But 'they' like
it a little" Then-, sensing he had gone too far, he hefted the book again.
"Now remember, lover boys, if we buy it, we got one rule : forget art,
we're in the entertainment business."
We didn't sell to his front office, but I always liked his frankness. Not
that we considered The Ugly American high art; we had written it in
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