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I DUNNO BRUCE - A QUICK LOOK AT IMDB SHOWS BUCK'S ECLECTIC,
INTERESTING WRITTEN OUTPUT OVER 30 YEARS - SOME OF WHICH ARE -
- To Die
For (1995) (screenplay)
- The Nude Bomb (1980)
(characters)
- A Star Is Born (1976)
(uncredited)
- The Day of the Dolphin
(1973)
- What's Up, Doc? (1972)
(screenplay)
- The Owl and the
Pussycat (1970)
- Catch-22 (1970)
(screenplay)
- Candy
(1968) (screenplay)
- The Graduate
(1967)
MEDIOCRE? THEN WHOSE ISN'T BY THAT MEASURE? SEVERAL GOODS
POSTERS IN THAT LIST TOO.
I.A.L. Diamond, Ben Hecht, Ring Lardner Jr. - THREE OF THE
BEST OF THE OLD SCHOOL - ALL HAD ONE OR TWO FINE EFFORTS AND MORE ROUTINE FARE
TOO.
CRAIG
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2006 6:26
PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] The Graduate
Marty Davis is right (as usual) that the movie The Graduate was
far better
than the source novel. But the move DID (as Marty points out)
lift a huge
amount of the great lines and several excellent scenes
directly from the
book. I agree that Mike Nichols and the actors made all
the difference (a
pretty good book became a masterpiece of a movie), but
it is a complete
joke that Buck Henry and Calder Willingham got an Academy
Award nomination
for their "screenplay", when they mostly just photocopied
pages of the
novel and added bits and pieces to them!
It is
especially sad that the writer of the book, Charles Webb, was
apparently a
real-life Benjamin Braddock (he was 28 when the book was
published), but
with even more troubles, and after one more far stranger
book, The
Marriage of a Young Stockbroker in 1971 (it is the Citizen Kane
of
voyeurism movies!), he vanished into obscurity and I believe he soon was
working as a clerk in a bookshop, while Buck Henry parlayed his
photocopying success with The Graduate into a long mediocre career as both
a screenwriter and an actor (Calder Willingham had previously been
credited
for the magnificent screenplay for Paths of Glory and screenplay
for the
enjoyable The Vikings, among others, but his post-Graduate career
was
pretty mediocre as
well).
Bruce
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