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Orville Prescott of The New York Times called it "a fictional disaster, clumsily written, crudely repetitious, ineptly unconvincing in many scenes, cheaply vulgar throughout. 'Some Came Running' is also so gamey and rancid in its concentration on sex that it seems like the work of an adolescent obsessed by the Kinsey reports. It is a very great ...
Some Came Running is a 1958 American drama film directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Shirley MacLaine, based on the 1957 novel of the same name by James Jones. Set in 1948, it tells the story of a troubled Army veteran and author who returns to his Midwestern home town after 16 years, to the chagrin of his ...
The New York Times Best Seller list is widely considered the preeminent list of best-selling books in the United States. Since October 12, 1931, The New York Times Book Review has published the list weekly. In the 21st century, it has evolved into multiple lists, grouped by genre and format, including fiction and nonfiction, hardcover, paperback and electronic. The list is based on a ...
From Here to Eternity is the debut novel of American author James Jones, published by Scribner's in 1951. Set in 1941, the novel focuses on several members of a U.S. Army infantry company stationed in Hawaii in the months leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor . It is loosely based on Jones's experiences in the pre-World War II ...
As of 2012 the book had sold over one million copies. [23] On the year of its publication, it was on the New York Times Bestseller List. [4] The book was reviewed in media including the Huffington Post, [24] The Guardian, [25] The New York Times, [2] The Financial Times, [26] The Independent, [27] Bloomberg [11] and The New York Review of Books.
The filmmaker says, “My amateur thesis going into it was that these guys were the last of a class of people who set out and had a crew — like the lost generation — of like-minded aspiring ...
Barbra Streisand. On a Clear Day You Can See Forever is a 1970 American musical comedy-drama fantasy film starring Barbra Streisand and Yves Montand and directed by Vincente Minnelli. The screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner is adapted from his book for the 1965 stage production of the same name. The songs feature lyrics by Lerner and music by Burton ...
The Times ' s longest-running podcast is The Book Review Podcast, [295] debuting as Inside The New York Times Book Review in April 2006. [296] The New York Times ' s defining podcast is The Daily, [294] a daily news podcast hosted by Michael Barbaro and, since March 2022, Sabrina Tavernise. [297] The podcast debuted on February 1, 2017. [298]