Budd Schulberg was a writer, screenwriter, and journalist whose work often explored themes of ambition, corruption, and human resilience within the realms of sports and the film industry. His stylistic prowess was evident in his sharply drawn characters and incisive examinations of the darker aspects of the American dream. Schulberg masterfully blended his journalistic endeavors with fiction, delving into the driving forces behind both success and downfall. His writing maintains a strong moral ethos, resonating with readers seeking a profound insight into the human condition.
Ringside is a bountiful collection of the most memorable boxing stories by legendary fight-game writer Budd Schulberg. Throughout this book, Schulberg provides the perfect blend of great writing on great fighters, laced with a realistic sense of boxing's wrongs as well as its rights.
A portrait of an age of both dazzling spirit and bitter disillusionment, based on the last drunken days of F. Scott Fitzgerald. The 1920s: a golden age, and Manley Halliday is a golden figure. But years later, in the very different atmosphere of the thirties, Halliday is a shadow of his former self, cast up on the inhospitable shores of Hollywood.
Building on his Academy Award-winning screenplay of the classic film, Budd Schulberg's On the Waterfront is the story of ex-prizefighter Terry Malloy's valiant stand against corruption on the New Jersey docks. It generates all the power, grittiness, and truth of that great production, but goes beyond it in set and setting. It is a novel of strength and fallibility, of hope and defeat, of love and betrayal. In his Introduction, Mr. Schulberg writes: "The film's concentration on a single dominating character, brought close to the camera eye, made it esthetically inconvenient, if not impossible, to set Terry's story in its social and historical perspective...suggesting the knotted complexities of the world of the waterfront that loops around New York."
The collection showcases Budd Schulberg's talent for creating compelling characters from diverse American settings, spanning from New York's bustling streets to Hollywood's vibrant nightlife. Each story delves into the lives of individuals grappling with the consequences of their rapid success and the moral costs of their actions. Notably, "The Arkansas Traveler" features Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes, whose tales inspired the film A Face in the Crowd. Schulberg's narratives are rich with authenticity, reflecting the complexities of human experience and the weight of failure.
Set against the backdrop of the New York waterfront, this stage adaptation of Budd Schulberg's classic tale explores the struggles and aspirations of a young man who dreams of greatness but faces the harsh realities of life. The narrative delves into themes of ambition, regret, and the quest for identity, capturing the essence of a character who reflects on lost opportunities and the weight of potential unfulfilled.
He may be a giant but giants have been licked before. Don't forget Goliath. The bigger they are, the harder they fall. Eddie Lewis never expected to make his living writing lies, but that's what he does to pay his rent: Eddie is a manipulator of headlines, an inventor of hyperbole, on behalf of his boss Nick Latka and the boxing business.
First published in the USA in 1995, a collection of the author's journalistic pieces on boxing covering the past 75 years, from Benny Leonard and Muhammad Ali to George Foreman and Mike Tyson. Also reflects on the social history of boxing and explores the mystique of the heavyweight... číst celé
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 On the Waterfront--follows Sammy's relentless upward progress, he creates a virtuoso study in character that manages to be hilariously appalling yet deeply compassionate. "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, GQ