Enjoyable film by Woody Allen--I feel good that young people today will have some exposure to Zelda and Scott, Hemingway, Picasso, and so forth--
I had an encounter with Dali--Ralph Ginzburg, publisher of Eros magazine, contracted with him to write something for Eros--I was to do the research--so I researched something about...anality--sent him some leading articles on the subject--he submitted an utterly incomprehensible article-- we ran it, darkened by some paintings--Dali was utterly mad--
Re Hemingway, I prevailed about his widow, Mary, to write for Fact magazine--as I recall, she belittled the friendship of AE Hotchner with Hemingway--Hotchner had written about Hemingway as if he had been a special friend--she was a good writer, needed no editing--
I had thought Edmund Wilson was in the film, but he wasn't--I once wrote to Wilson, saying that I had heard that he wrote for every new magazine--he sent back his usual card, declining--but wrote, You have been badly misinformed"--
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