What Makes Sammy Run?
Ratings6
Average rating3.3
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Ratings6
Average rating3.3
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
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It would be 2.5 stars actually. They are given in the name of the great beginning, that involved me completely despite the far away setting - screenplay writing in Hollywood in the early 40s - and because of the human qualities- the ambition portrayed by Sammy Glick(stein) and well described.
Didn't care for the ending: the union stuff bored me, and his marriage deserved more spotlight.
