Don't go ruining a good story with facts. It's much more dramatic if
the man who wrote about broke, drunken losers so eloquently was one
himself.
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Allan Guthrie <allan@allanguthrie.co.uk> wrote:
> It might be very eloquent but I can't get past those opening lines.
> "Cirrhosis of the liver. That's how Goodis died." I don't know where this
> idea that Goodis was an alcoholic comes from, other than Wikipedia.
> Certainly not from anyone who knew him. And certainly not according to his
> death certificate, which states that he died of a 'cerebral vascular
> accident' in the Albert Einstein Medical Center (this happened three days
> after he took a beating from a bunch of thugs he refused to give his wallet
> to, so the story goes). While I'm on my high horse, there's also a widely
> spread belief that Goodis died in poverty (largely on account of the
> obituary that appeared in Sight & Sound in Winter 68/69). Bill Sherman, who
> wrote the offending obituary, has subsequently admitted he made a mistake.
> Goodis left a considerable estate -- by today's standards he'd have been a
> millionaire. Yep, the drunken penniless loser actually he died a sober and
> wealthy man. Since I'm on a run, there's also a rumour that Goodis was
> paranoid, as most obviously manifested by him suing Warner pictures over The
> Fugitive, the TV series which he believed was based on his novel, Dark
> Passage. In fact, there was never any doubt about this. The argument was
> about whether Warner owed him money in addition to the movie rights they'd
> already paid for. Warner eventually settled with the Goodis estate,
> posthumously.
>
> If you want to get some impressions of Goodis, the man, that bear some
> relation to reality, check this out:
> http://homepage.mac.com/babaganouj/microbrewjournalism/page11/page20/page20.html
>
> Um, carry on...
>
> Al
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "cinemart_temp" <cinemart_temp@yahoo.com>
> To: <rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 2:40 AM
> Subject: RARA-AVIS: Great Article on Goodis
>
>> Another celebration of the Goodis film series - very eloquent:
>>
>> http://www.movingimagesource.us/articles/no-exit-20080811
>
>
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