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Gunn Shots
By JAMES GUNN
TT OLLYWOOD, the gentle gang-* ■*■ ster, in the face of slander or ridicule not only turns the other cheek but puts out its hand to be slapped and its behind to be kicked. Thus the old-hat canards go undenied through the years, to the big hilarity of everyone east of Los Feliz Boulevard.
One of the most persistent mothballs, minor but irksome, is the one that can be labelled "The Hollywood Caste System," or "Strata Among the Stars." The origins of this venerable nonsense are lost in the mists of time, but the myth refuses to die. Just a while ago Hollywood got a blast along this line from the eminent British magazine writer, Mr. James Mason. And more recently we had a definitive account from Miss Lillian Ross of The New Yorker. I do not mean to disparage Miss Ross, who is, after all, primarily a humorist rather than a reporter. She is a lady with a fine talent for selection, and, I suspect, a nice flair for purely creative writing. And she talks through a very witty hat.
To quote the lady: "This (Hollywood) is still a special area where . . . guests at parties are chosen from lists based on their weekly income brackets — low ($200-$500),middle ($500-$l,250), and upper ($l,250-$20,000)."
(Oh, the hell with it, write this paragraph yourself. Any four-letter word signifying a loud horselaugh will do.)
In the first place, the above implies that in more doughtily democratic American centers, the bank president thinks nothing of entertaining at one blow a visiting senator, a junior clerk, several millhands, and his wife's sister, who married badly. In the second, as far as Hollywood goes, it just ain't
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The
Screen Writer
Vol. 3, No. 11
APRIL, 1948
EDITORIAL COMMITTEE
Richard English, Editor
Fran Manning, Associate Editor
Robert Andrews Claude Binyon Taylor Caven David Chandler James Gunn Stephen Longstreet
Leo C Rosten
Bernard Schoenfei.d
Leonard Spigelgass
Leo Town send
M. Coates Webster
Margaret Buell Wilder
CONTENTS
GOVERNOR EARL WARREN: An Anniversary Message
UNEMPLOYMENT IV
ERNEST PASCAL: What Is A Screen Writer
F. HUGH HERBERT: Attention: Grievance Committee ROBERT NATHAN : Agreement In Darien
FREDERIC WAKEMAN: Collectivism, The Atom, The Writer 15/// Anniversary of the Screen Writers' Guild
SAMUEL GOLDWYN: Where Do You Go From Here/
SHERIDAN GIBNEY: A Thought For The Future
DAVID CHANDLER: Notes From A New Member
OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II: The Authors' League Today
MARY C. McCALL, JR.: A Brief History of the Guild
GENEVIEVE NOSSECK: One-Month Diary of a Screen Writer
WILLIAM KOZLENKO: The Short Play In Television
Gunn Shots Inside Front Cover
Editorial 38
Correspondence 39
Book Reviews 42
News Notes 46
Script Conference 48
Screen Credits 51
Manuscript Market 52
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