Budd Schulberg war ein Schriftsteller, Drehbuchautor und Journalist, dessen Werk sich oft mit Themen wie Ehrgeiz, Korruption und menschlicher Widerstandsfähigkeit im Umfeld des Sports und der Filmindustrie auseinandersetzte. Seine stilistische Brillanz zeigte sich in seinen scharf gezeichneten Charakteren und scharfsinnigen Untersuchungen der dunkleren Seiten des amerikanischen Traums. Schulberg verband gekonnt seine journalistische Arbeit mit Fiktion und tauchte tief in die treibenden Kräfte hinter Erfolg und Niedergang ein. Sein Schreiben bewahrt einen starken moralischen Ethos und spricht auch heute noch Leser an, die tiefe Einblicke in das menschliche Dasein suchen.
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
Ein zeitloser amerikanischer Klassiker des 20. Jahrhunderts Er ist der Prototyp des Aufsteigers: Stets auf den eigenen Vorteil bedacht, große Klappe und spitze Ellbogen – das ist Sammy Glick. Ohne die leiseste Spur von Talent bringt er es vom Lauf burschen in einer Zeitungsredaktion zum erfolgreichsten Filmproduzenten Holly woods. Mit Sammy Glick hat Budd Schulberg das exemplarische Schreckgespenst des amerikanischen Lebens stils geschaffen.
