“In terms of authority,” he wrote in “Adventures in the Screen Trade,” his 1983 memoir and acid critique of show business, “screenwriters rank somewhere between the man who guards the studio gate and the man who runs the studio (this week).”īut his film legacy vastly overshadowed his best-selling and genre-crossing books. Goldman regarded himself as a novelist who just happened to write motion pictures. In a career spanning more than five decades, Mr. 16 at 87 at his home in Manhattan of complications from colon cancer and pneumonia, his daughter Jenny Goldman said. It was the work of novice screenwriter William Goldman, who went on to become a towering craftsman of the movies - winning Academy Awards for the convention-flouting western “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” (1969) and the Watergate thriller “All the President’s Men” (1976) and adapting his fantasy-sendup novel “The Princess Bride” into a generational touchstone in 1987. Kipling idealizes the army officer, especially the junior officer, and that to an idiotic extent, but the private soldier, though lovable and romantic, has to be a comic.That opening scene, from the 1966 mystery film “Harper,” starring Paul Newman, is widely considered a masterpiece of screenwriting, revealing depths of character without a single word. India was mostly Kipling country, with portions here and there belonging to Clive, the Grand Mogul, and lesser lights. In twenty years they might be ready for the Encyclopaedists, and then they would come, in another ten years, to Kipling.Īhead of them lay the Limpopo river, but despite Mister Rudyard Kipling, it was neither grey green nor greasy and there was not a single fever tree on either bank. Tolkien, Laurence Houseman, Walter de la Mare, Rudyard Kipling, Kastner, Peter Dickinson, Philippa Pearce, Susan Cooper, Barbara Willard, E. In it she found a loaf of bread labelled ``THICK SLICED MOTHER'S PRIDE'', a half pound of Anchor butter, a jar of strawberry jam, a tin of corned beef, a tin of Heinz tomato soup, a tin of stewed steak, a tin of new potatoes, a tin of marrowfat peas, a tin of peaches (sliced) in syrup, a packet of digestive biscuits, a packet of Mr Kipling jam tarts, a jar of Nescafé. Mi texto será fiel: líbreme Alá de la tentación de añadir breves rasgos circunstanciales o de agravar, con interpolaciones de Kipling, el cariz exótico del relato. How far does Kipling really identify himself with the administrators, soldiers and engineers whose praises he sings?Įn alguna página de Kipling tiene que estar el villorrio de mi aventura ya que en ellas está toda la India, y de algún modo todo el orbe. Kipling is the only English writer of our time who has added phrases to the language.Īpparently Kipling was a versifier who occasionally wrote poems, in which case it was a pity that Mr Eliot did not specify these poems by name. She had John Kipling, who had a network of newspapermen who would gladly tell John what they knew. Here are half a dozen phrases coined by Kipling which one sees quoted in leaderettes in the gutter press or overhears in saloon bars from people who have barely heard his name.Įveryone in town knew that the fuse box was behind a small panel in back of the peanut butter in the kitchen cabinet, that the loons were gone for the winter, and that Buck Kipling kept a set of tire chains under the seat of his truck. Both attitudes have their advantages, but Kipling was never able to move forward from one into the other.
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