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In a spiteful move before a meeting of the Interagency Bison Management Plan, the Montana Department of Livestock (DOL) revealed shocking plans to harass, capture, vaccinate and slaughter wild, migratory buffalo in the Hebgen Basin, west of Yellowstone National Park. Scroll down to take action now, or read on for more info first.
State veterinarian Marty Zaluski's proposal targeting buffalo would begin following the end of Montana's buffalo "hunt" on February 15, 2014 but while Treaty hunting is underway.
Vaccinating and slaughtering wild buffalo is a political move designed to placate livestock interests who have never committed to allowing native wild buffalo to occupy any habitat in Montana. Vaccination will not make things any better for the buffalo or Montana's tarnished image. It is only the latest weapon in an arsenal being used to domesticate our last wild bison herds.
The DOL appears determined to proceed despite strong objections and opposition from the National Park Service, Nez Perce, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, InterTribal Buffalo Council, and Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks.
The funding for Montana Dept. of Livestock's wild buffalo vaccination and slaughter program comes from the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service -- a federal livestock agency that has funneled over $7,000,000 taxpayer dollars to the state livestock agency to harm the public's wild buffalo including on public lands. These American taxpayer funded "cooperative funding agreements" enable Montana to carry out these despicable attacks on America's last wild migratory buffalo.
The DOL proposes to trap buffalo in pens on private lands at Duck Creek, on public lands at Horse Butte and on state lands along the Madison River.
Once captured, buffalo would be brutally run through squeeze chutes to test for exposure to the cattle disease, brucellosis. Buffalo would be injected with RB51, a vaccine designed for cattle, fitted with metal tags and marked like livestock. Buffalo showing an immune response -- indicating resistance to the cattle disease, not infection - would be trucked to slaughter houses by livestock agents.
The consensus of a panel of scientists convened in 2013 to review hand vaccination in pens and remote vaccination without capture, concluded the "Best available data does not support" vaccinating buffalo. RB51 is an experimental and ineffective cattle vaccine not approved for use in wild buffalo.
Yellowstone National Park's best available science (2010) says RB51 adversely affects buffalo's natural ability to resist infection from this exotic cattle disease and develop genetic immunity. There is also a real risk of vaccinating creating more virulent strains of the disease in buffalo - with potentially devastating effects for America's last wild population.
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Before the 13th-ranked Saint Louis Billikens left Monday for games at Saint Joseph's and La Salle, senior forward Dwayne Evans tweeted, "Off to Philly for the week!" Note the exclamation point. Though Philadelphia isn't exactly a tourist destination when buried by winter, Evans has at least one very good reason for being excited about this trip. His team has enjoyed much success...
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ST. LOUIS Dwayne Evans scored 22 points and grabbed 13 rebounds as Saint Louis won its fifth straight with a 79-57 victory over North Carolina A&T Saturday. Evans made two free throws to give Saint Louis (11-2) a 10-8 lead, and the Billikens led the rest of the way. Evans hit another pair of free throws to stretch the lead to 50-30 with 16:13 remaining. Saint Louis never led...
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It doesn't take much courage to make a snide, anonymous and sexist remark.
This isn't about Register online forums or the First Amendment.
This is about how a low blow, dealt in cowardly fashion, might be within your right as an American, but maybe it's not humane, maybe its even downright misogynistic.
It's easy to be bold when no one knows who you are.
Just like the call I took last Wednesday in the newsroom. It was simple to dial the number, wait for a reporter to answer and let a hearty chuckle go as you make a disparaging remark about a woman.
Try taking a stand when everyone knows you, the cameras are snapping away and you're front-page news for a very personal matter. I can only imagine it's a lot harder.
It takes a lot more courage, patience and perseverance to be a female in a high-profile position in a male-dominated career field.
It takes even more courage to take a stand you urge other men and women to do almost daily, if something has possibly become dangerous or threatening in their home, knowing full well you will be made a public example.
Recently Sandusky Police Chief Kim Nuesse filed for a temporary protection order against her husband, James Nuesse. The order has since been dropped and Nuesse is filing for divorce.
Nuesse continues to calmly handle the attention, seeking to protect herself and children.
I've taken some pretty off-base calls while at the Register, but this one left me speechless.
A man called stating he would like to make a comment on behalf of himself and several other male co-workers.
He wouldn't say who he was, stating he preferred to remain anonymous.
We frequently get calls like this at the Register and we aren't in the business of stopping named or anonymous individuals from sharing their opinions.
A standard practice in journalism is to not print anonymous tips and opinions unless we can prove the information and feel the person could be harmed as a result of blowing a whistle.
I'm going against that practice, to make a point.
The man felt it necessary to question how Nuesse was capable of being the Sandusky police chief if she "can't even protect herself."
He went on to say that at first he liked Nuesse, but not now -- because she "can't protect the city," finishing off the conversation with a mean-spirited chuckle.
I will never know who you are, but I'm not laughing with you.
I wish I could laugh at you, but it's not a laughing matter.
A woman felt the need to insure her children's and her own security. That happens every day in courts across America. Thankfully anyone can seek protection under the law when necessary.
I don't know either Nuesse and I won't pretend to know what led to the court proceedings.
But it shouldn't matter. Yes, she is a city official, but she's followed the letter of the law and court policies. She didn't abuse her power as a police chief and she's not asking for special treatment.
I was in such awe of the sheer audacity of the anonymous comments I didn't play devils advocate or come to Nuesse's defense.
Later I wondered, does the caller have daughters or a sister? Wouldn't he want them to achieve their professional goals and feel safe at home?
What else should she do but follow the laws and court processes she asks others to follow?
In an era where women are breaking through professional glass ceilings, there is a female presidential candidate, women are fighting in wars and Nuesse's personal life is on display in a glass house, I'm sorry someone is using the First Amendment as an excuse to throw a rock.


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By Kristin Tullo (@KToools) For Andy Greene it was a "no brainer" to join Operation Hat Trick when he was asked to take part in a benefit game that would raise money for those affected by Hurricane Sandy in New York and New Jersey. Greene, along with 31 other NHL players, including two New Jersey teammates David Clarkson and Martin Brodeur, played in front of a sold out crowd at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City on Saturday night. Though the game's main purpose was to help a community that needed it the most, Operation Hat Trick also became an outlet for frustrated hockey fans to have just one night of hockey, featuring some of their favorite players and some of the best talent in the league. Fans of the Philadelphia Flyers and New York Rangers poured into the stands, with a scattering of New Jersey Devils fans filling in as well for a once-in-a-lifetime All Star-type event, all the while voicing their dislike for the NHL lockout. It was Team NY versus Team NJ, in a goaltending matchu...
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Phone as my GPS. Using highly specific google maps issues
So I am going to be using my phone as my GPS and I would love to use Google maps. I have made a bunch of maps already utilizing a ton of different way points, and I saved them. The issue is it might be difficult to access these maps, or at least use google's navigation from it.
For example, this is one of my segments
I can't even access the route function from the desktop app, let alone the phone.
So my question is, how does one design specific routes on google maps and still use them for navigation purposes on their phone?
Some of this is discussed here:
There are a dozen way to do this.
One of the ways I do this is first on the Google site, click on the KML button and export the map. Then on my PC, I use a program call ITNconverter to convert the KML file. I use a program on my phone called CoPilot, so I convert it to a CoPilot file and copy that to my phone. Or if I am using OSMand, I convert it to a GPX format and copy that to my phone.
Or you can use a program like Locus, and it will directly read the files off of the Google server. Very convenient, but that program is difficult to set up and use IMHO.
What I am more interested is which app is best for what?
I also use Co-Pilot but still find Google Map more accurate although again with GM you need cell coverage more or less regardless of the ability to cache section sof GM for future offline use.
I've heard lot about Osmand but I read that search finctions suck. I had Sygic but routing was hit or miss as is Co-Pilot. Both work OK but not great and certainly not as accurate as GM.
I was interested in trying out Locus Pro but I read reviews where navigation sucked since you had to be online for it to calculate your route and that Locus is more of a map program than GPS.
I agree that future is to use a smartphone but which app is best? Is there one app that can do off road tracks and on road routes or do we have to download and use 2 apps?
Maybe we can start a thread on best smartphone apps with pros and cons?
What issues did you have Co-Pilot? Inaccurate offroad or on paved streets?
Not sure what happened. It was not a setting or avoidance setting issue as I verified that Co-Pilot was set for "Quickest" and no avoidance.
Ideally I would map it out on GM then use the android GM app for navigation. Worst come to worst I use Co-Pilot, but I don't want to rely on subpar navigation...
My own experience with CoPilot in my area was pretty disappointing as well. I requested it route me to my parents' house which is on the north end of a road that is about 50 miles long. CoPilot wouldn't accept that the address I was attempting to get to was near the north end, despite it being "sort of" aware of the numbering scheme. It then proceeded to route me from the south end to the north. If I went directly, it's 20 miles. If I followed the route, it would've been near 50 miles :(
Even Garmin does routing better...
oruxmaps+brouter, completely offline routing, planning,and tracking, this is not tbt navigation, since you won't want tbt of road anyway. offline maps abound, and look beautiful:
Osmand+, completely offline, and/or off road planning, routing, tracking, onroad tbt navigation, with or without redirection, great maps, and also beautiful:
high detail zoom with vector maps, topo and hill shading:
you might notice Osmand has something interesting in the lower left, a motorcycle icon.... it can route/guide according to profiles that you set: car, boat, walking, motorcycle, fastest/shortest/etc
generally, for off road I use oruxmaps, I just prefer the ui for of f road.
for on road /tbt navigation, I'll use Osmand.
for point to point navigation: Osmand or sygic, depending on mood.
for fine detailed planning or routing, oruxmaps.
both of these applications ate under heavy development. Osmand actually has nightly builds you can download for free to try out upcoming features.
oruxmaps has betas also, that are also way ahead of the game when compared to stand alone offerings.
dive in and try them out
its still great, don't let the few negatives put you off about a very specific feature here or there
Well I guess I will try this then!
I am going to be on road and want turn by turn navigation. My routes are not crazy per se, but will look something like this. That isn't complete, but you get the gist of it. If Osmand+ can handle it, I will give it a whirl.
I would definitely have a route that long working perfectly, and converted to gpx well ahead if the trip. there is a very cool "animate' option for routes that I would try, along with shipping ahead to each turn (to verify) from the route planning list of turns.
also, I would break each leg of the trip into state or even half state sections (Texas, wow) to ensure the gpx doesn't get out of hand in file size or complexity. labeling each state, and uploading them to a cloud based storage would be wise to, in case something happens to the device and or sdcard
I WOULD break it into a few much smaller chunks. So if something gets goofy on one section, you will be starting fresh in the new section and not totally off base.
You will need to download a number of states. OSMand will lead you through that.
Another thing to look at is Locus maps. I don't find it very user friendly, but it will directly connect to Google and download that route and those points directly. Once you have downloaded it offline, you are good. Play with the free version of Locus.
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"But the senators have no intention of applying the tax to the mine."
Then specify it in the bill. The version that passed the Assembly specifically says that mines would not be treated like landfills and thus, not subject to the $7 per ton tax.
"inadvertely" included a $172M tax, perhaps it is not a well thought out bill.
Perhaps they should have received input from both sides so they could really come up with a compromise bill.
Offer Kohls $100M to more jobs from Menomomee Falls to Milwaukee but charge $172M per year for somebody that might acturally create some much needed jobs in an area the wants them, doesn't exactly sound like someone that really wants the mine or the jobs.
What an ironic oversight. When you rush through a bill, see what happens? Now think about what could happen when you rush through a MINING PERMIT, which is what this whole thing is about to begin with.
Well I don't know about a tax on the overburden, but a partially refundable tax on the tailings makes sense to me. The tax should correlate with the potential cleanup costs associated with a mine of that size, and once the mine has been completed and the deemed that it's hasn't impacted the environment in a negative way, then the tax is refunded back to the company. Lot easier to collect from the company now and give it back, than wait until they are gone and try to collect later...Hide replies
That tends to make sense - sort of a security deposit like is used in renting apartments.
In Minnesota, I think 20% of the net proceeds tax goes to the IRRB, which is for community improvements and cleanup. I thought the new proposal has something similar to that, but I can't point directly to it. I recall 100% was staying in the community, but a percentage of that would go into a special fund.
These types of schemes never work in Government, the money will borrowed against and used for something else.
"the senators unveiled their plan on Tuesday – they inadvertently included the tipping fee."
Once again, our elected officials trying to pass bills without knowing what is in them. Isnt it there job to know EXACTLY the legislation they are passing?
As Nancy Pelosi would say, " Lets just pass the bill so we can find out whats in it!!!"Hide replies
See what happens when people try to rush things through without adequate public input and scrutiny? Think: budget repair bill, budget, redistricting maps and the list goes on.
my understanding when Doyle raise taxes in his final budget which happened to be a billion dollars of taxes on the private taxpayers of Wisconsin, Diamond Doyle gave the general public 4 hours of discussion and then he rammed it down the private sectors throats..
The budget repair bill bill seems to be working exactly as it was intended. Unions are weaker and have less of a stronghold on tax dollars than they used to.
You can't trust anyone to be completely truthful. Reagan said it best - trust but verify. Unfortunately, this bill has been found out to be false as far as what was stated by its authors.
Liberals don't want to create any jobs that rape the earth. No high paying jobs in Northerbn Wisconsin and the people can starve. Liberals talk up all the oil being produce in North Dakota under Barack but leave out that all those contracts were created under dirty oil Bush. May be we can all grow algae and harvest it for are gas tanks like the liberals want us to do. Let the private unions starve and let all those good jobs find their way into other states.Hide replies
Luckily for us people have to dig a mine where the iron is located.
Myopic conservatives are willing to trade short-term gain for long-term pain. Gogebic should pay substantial taxes for strip-mining Wisconsin and leaving millions of tons of tailings that will leach sulfuric acid.
Stop this aboMINEation.
So Aunt Bee, You don't like mining. Would you be happy if all the mining in the world were stopped or is it a just not in my back yard thing?
GB it has nothing to do with whose back yard it's in. The question is what is the local terrain? I'm all for mining in a desert in Utah or Australia. Just like I don't mind oil drilling in West Texas or Iraq. But I wouldn't want drilling for oil in Lake Superior and I don't think it's a good idea to mine iron anywhere you want to just because of some perceived need for it. Iron is one of the most abundant elements available for mining on the earth, it's always just a matter of cost. But cost can't be measured only in dollars. Just as the mining company wants to mine here because economic cost is lower than in some other iron deposits, environmentalist don't want the mine here because environmental costs are higher than in other places.
Once again the WMC shows it focus on money. No mention of the sulfuric acid that will be released once the taconite is exposed. No mention of the violation of the treaty agreements. No mention of the fact that the bill specifically states that it takes precidence over all other environmental laws. No mention that if something were to go wrong the bill stripped citizens' rights to recourse.Hide replies
Care to point us to the language that overrides existing environmental protections?
Just one quick example, attc44, which is no small one at that: Under current law DNR must find, before a permit is issued, that the mine "will not endanger public health, safety or welfare." The new standard proposed is that it "is NOT LIKELY to result in SUBSTANTIAL ADVERSE IMPACTS to public health, safety or welfare." (caps added)
Regardless of whether you agree with this language or not, it is clear that this is a substantial reduction in the level of environmental protection. If these are not changes of substance, then why fight for them?
You asked for an example, and there it is. There are many, many more.
Here is a quote directly from the Assembly Bill: "Current law provides that if there is a standard under other state or federal
statutes or rules that specifically regulates in whole an activity also regulated under
the metallic mining law, the standard under the other statutes or rules is the
controlling standard. If the other federal or state statute or rule only specifically
regulates the activity in part, it is controlling as to that part.
Under this bill, if there is a conflict between a provision of the iron mining laws
and a provision in another state environmental law, the provision in the iron mining
laws controls."
You're right it the republican way money over people
This is going to be one of those slam, bam, thank you mam bills again. Seriously, if the mine had never been proposed - what would the people of that area have done anyway?
All of a sudden its these poor people without jobs, let's take care of them. Once the environment has been ruined, it'll be too late. Then what? We blame those workers in Northern Wiscsonsin because they wanted the jobs, after all???Hide replies
Who's saying that the environment will be ruined? It's the same fear mongers who said that the Budget Repair Bill, 2011-2013 Budget, Concealed Carry and Voter ID would cause the sky to fall.
attc - do your research.
attc - the budget "repair" bill is a joke. Do you really think Scott Walker and the Fitz boys really care about you???
Most estimates say that the "big money" employees of this mine will be given to out of staters. State residents will be restaurant, hotel, etc. workers to serve the miners. No different jobs than serving tourists. Tourism offers a better future.
there already is big tourism there and always has been.
attc 44: cheap shot ignorant comments with nothing, nothing of value to contribute to the conversation.
>How about discussing the immense anticipated gross revenue and profits per year going out 30 plus years, the state and federal grants, credits, tax credits, loans, out right grants etc that have been promised or are expected, waivers for environmental damage, including water clarity, fish habitat, rice production and the greater damage to waters downstream, air pollution and it's effects on the people and the environment and limits as to their responsibility for returning the environment to it's pre-existing conditions. and on and on and on... No attc 44, your little mind is focused on little things.
I worked at the UP mines, Empire and Tilden. They were an environmental disaster and remain so. I lived on a dead lake 15 miles from the Empire mine. The damage that has been done is irreversible. To listen to Tilden's PR it sounds like their talking about a resort. I've forgotten more about open pit mining then most people will ever know. So attc 44, do your self a favor, stick to the funny papers cause that sure is where you belong.Hide replies
Where was the ignorant, cheap shot?
It is not my understanding that Jauch and Schultz expected this bill to be slam dunked unlike the Republican controlled Assembly and Senate did. The Senate leaders opted to squash the bill being worked on by their own committee and go with the already passed Assembly bill with little or no additional input. This new bill again slows the process down because it presumably will lead to more debate and will probably look different from the Assembly bill leading to more working out the differences in the two bills.
While 700 jobs is nothing to sneeze at, it is fair to note that the thousands of jobs often talked about in this discussion will not be in the mine area. Since the current population of the area cannot provide the 3000 temporary construction workers they estimate to build the mines, workers will come in from outside the area. While they will spend money locally while here, the bulk of their income will go back to their communities of residence, where they have families and homes to support. There will be some ancillary businesses and jobs increase to support the 700 miners, but from the economic study done, many of the other jobs created by the mine will be downstate or out of state to supply the mine or to use the mine products. Many thoughtful people are trying to weigh the pros and cons of this situation and it bears more thinking.
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Author Kathleen Blee Discusses the Role of Women in White Supremacist Groups
BLEE: If you look at these groups, they are uniformly anti-gay. But if you talk to members, their opinions on gay and lesbian issues are more diverse.
One woman who was distributing really vicious antigay pamphlets told me, "I don't agree that gays deserve AIDS, deserve to die, but that's what [my group] says."
In the same way, if you look at the propaganda, most groups are very anti-abortion. But if you talk to women in these groups, they are not necessarily anti-abortion.
Some of them have had abortions. A Klanswoman told me, "I think it's a perfectly private thing. ... It should never be part of a political platform."
A lot of these groups put out propaganda about how women should bear lots of children to save the white race.
But many women told me that that's ridiculous, they aren't planning to do that. Most are not living in economic circumstances where they want to have eight kids. The men say this is great for the white race, but the women tell me privately, "Forget it!"
Some of the women even have friends in the, quote, enemy races. Almost a third of the women I spoke to, in fact, told me about mixed-race or homosexual family members with whom they were on friendly terms.
I think this is important not because I want to suggest that members are in any way better or more moral than the groups they're in, but because it may be valuable information for thinking about how we pull people out.
These people are often ambivalent about the beliefs they espouse in public.
IR: Please expand on the ramifications of your study for pulling women out of these groups. What do you mean specifically?
BLEE: Almost every woman that I interviewed had a significant tie to somebody on the outside, and often that was a tie that she kept secret from others in the group, even her boyfriend or husband. Typically, that tie might be to a sister or a friend, including people who found the women's racist attitudes horrible.
And if it's the case that people come into racist groups largely because of ties they have to people who are in them, then it's also the case that people come out of racist groups, or see the possibility of coming out, because of ties they have to people on the outside.
We know, for example, that women who are able to leave domestic violence situations are those who typically have ties to the outside, who are not completely isolated.
And because the racism of the women who join these groups is not well formed early on, it's easier to reach people with a counter-message early in their time in the groups. Once they develop this hard-core, conspiratorial belief system, it's much harder to break in.
White power Skinheads are the most extreme case of this. These are kids who act on extremely shallow and shallowly held ideas.
So even if they are willing to do some terrible things based on those beliefs, an alternative set of beliefs, attached to an attractive set of friends or an attractive partying situation, can be just the pull that brings people out of Skinhead groups.
IR: Do you think the same is true for men?
BLEE: Men are more insular. They have more to gain from these groups — the possibility of fame, money, bravado. There's more payoff for men who hold to the party line. I don't think they have one foot out the door the way women do.
IR: Not only are there more women in racist groups today, but many are involved in creating their own culture, home-schooling their children, exchanging information about how to raise proper Aryan children and so on. Do you see any particular danger in these ostensibly mundane activities?
BLEE: There are two dangers. For one thing, they are trying to create some kind of intergenerational racist counter culture, a self-sustaining, long-term racist world that is parallel to the mainstream world. That's a scary ambition, although I don't think it's being particularly fulfilled anywhere. They are trying to create the embryo of a racist society within the existing one.
The other scary aspect of this is that some of these activities, because they seem so normal, can provide a bridge to recruit other women who would otherwise never come into contact with racist activists.
Classes in herbal medicine, home schooling, are appealing — they present the racist movement as part of everyday life. Here are mothers and kids learning geography — that doesn't seem quite as scary to potential recruits as hearing about race war.
I interviewed a number of women who came into contact with the movement through one or another of those kinds of mechanisms.
One, for instance, went to a biblical home birthing seminar and got to know the people. Months went by with no mention of race — it seemed to be a bunch of women talking about the Bible. Gradually, they told her more, and the conversion process began.
That's a pretty effective way to recruit people, compared to standing on a street corner saying, "Join the American Nazi Party."
That's how women can be really effective, as opposed to a bunch of bedraggled Klan guys standing in a courthouse square surrounded by 10 times as many antiracist demonstrators. That's probably the worst way you can recruit. Women provide an air of normalcy.
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A lot of people ask why I'm attracting the wrong types when they are overlooking the simple fact they are attracting. Part of the process is your going to get bad with the good. If your truly attracting women then there is nothing to fix on your part. Sit back and take pride in the fact that women are after you regardless of how you deem them to be. Some guys are not even getting that...
Perhaps it's not what your attracting, but your using the same locales that has the same types of women. Are you going to places where women you'd want are going? You mentioned cooking, ever take a cooking class for the fun of it (can be a great place)?
if it has anything to do with your personality you seem to have a problem with guys being concieted... On some level you have to be like that with yourself. You have to have self confidence. You have to believe you can do anything you want and achieve it, it's part of being a man. Saying to people your god, ummmm not so much, but believing in yourself is a definite!
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You've already taken the first step by acknowledging your pattern. For some reason on a deep level, you're attracting the same type of women. You have an expectation that all women are like that, so that's what you're going to continue to attract. Just by stating "the only girls I ever attract these days are sluts," you're putting it out there. You have to recognize that NOT ALL women are like that, and focus on WHY you think you like them. There's something about them that is drawing you in. Picture all of these girls...what do they have in common? Once you recognize that, focus on the qualities that you DO want. Open yourself up and realize that the woman you want might not "look" the way you expect. Also, gove yourself more credit. You seem to have good intentions, so your luck will turn around once you break your pattern :)
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It's really rare to date a girl before you two have had sex. Where are you meeting these chicks? Try a library or bookstore. There are girls out there like that, but they aren't really the ones you're going to meet and pick up. You need to be a little sexual to attract a girl, you can't come off as this totally Asexual guy and expect a girl to think of being with you.
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Critical Essay by Gerald Peary
SOURCE: "Odets of Hollywood," in Sight and Sound, Vol. 56, No. 1, Winter, 1986/1987, pp. 59-63.
In the following essay, Peary explores Odets's flirtation with and eventual immersion into Hollywood screenwriting.
Consider three contemporary playwrights. Sam Shepard becomes a movie star, a heartthrob, Harold Pinter turns out clever screenplays; David Hare directs films—and they do so without looking over their shoulders. Who today would criticise them for diminishing themselves as playwrights, squandering their talents, or just plain selling out? Selling Out—in capitals—the very notion is an anachronism. But in the 30s, for the theatre, the term still meant something. The stage was where 'real' dramatic artists made their stand. Eugene O'Neill never, ever went to Hollywood, Clifford Odets was reminded over and over again. And if Odets wished to be the next O'Neill—or maybe better than O'Neill—he must stay in New York and pump out plays. Some fifty-odd years ago, in 1935, MGM offered Odets $3,000 a week, or more, to write screenplays in Los Angeles. The playwright, though amazed, resisted. 'Like a conspirator, he whispered that he might be willing to consider it,' wrote Harold Clurman, co-founder of the Group Theatre, in The Fervent Years. The Group, however, kept its resident playwright in hand.
In Hollywood, riches awaited Odets. In New York, he remained almost as indigent as ever. He shared the heartfelt frustration of young Ralph in Awake and Sing!: 'He dreams all night of fortunes. Why not? Don't it say in the movies he should have a personal steamship, pyjamas for fifty dollars a pair, and a toilet like a monument. But in the morning he wakes up and for ten dollars he can't fix his teeth.' Odets planned his escape to Hollywood. He was angered by the Group's righteous demands on him.
Ever the hopeful suitor, MGM invested $17,000 in Odets' play Paradise Lost—significantly, the Group Theatre didn't turn down this Hollywood financing. But the play faltered at the box-office, and the courtship abruptly ended. Though the MGM contract was lost, Odets adopted a new tack: he paid a money-raising visit to Hollywood on the Group's behalf. Conscience-stricken in the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, he bragged about the superiority of the Group Theatre back home in New York. He assured Lewis Milestone that his real interest was in the stage and the purpose of his trip was to keep Paradise Lost afloat; Milestone countered by asking Odets to produce a screenplay for The General Died at Dawn, from an unpublished China-set pulp novel which had landed on Ernst Lubitsch's desk at Paramount.
In February 1936, Odets signed a four-week contract with Paramount Pictures worth $2,500 a week. According to his biographer Margaret Brenman-Gibson, he felt respected 'as he had not since the opening of Awake and Sing!' It was as if, six months after the death of his own mother, Odets had achieved Bessie's most passionate hope for her son Ralph: 'I should only live to see the day when he rides up to the door in a big car with a chauffeur and a radio. I could die happy, believe me' (Awake and Sing!). Seemingly, Odets liked being in Hollywood. That was his guilt. How could he explain this to Clurman and the Group? The point can be made by jumping ahead for a moment, to Odets' autobiographical play about Southern California, The Big Knife. The play dissatisfied Clurman: the motivation for the protagonist's unhappiness was too shadowy. "'First you must show," I said, "how anxious the actor is to leave Hollywood how and why he hates it so much …" Odets suddenly blurted out, "He loves it."
What could be more enjoyable than writing at Lewis Milestone's behest on The General Died at Dawn? Director of the uncompromisingly pacifist All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), Milestone was a European-born Jewish intellectual, a friend of the Group Theatre (he lent money for its production of Johnny Johnson), and he was a left-liberal—some might say, more politically conscious than Odets. When, under the influence of Malraux's novel Man's Fate, Odets edged his screenplay towards the recent revolutionary struggles in China, Milestone did not baulk. In fact, the director added (uncredited) a key political scene to the script: the opening, in which a high-handed colonialist is punched to the ground by the hero, O'Hara, an American fighting the Chinese revolution.
At night, Odets struggled with The Silent Partner, the labour play he had long promised the Group. The film script, however, progressed smoothly, at the rate of three or four pages a day. His hero's impoverished early life was modelled on that of the Group actor Jules (later John) Garfield. For the right-wing antagonist, General Yang, Odets used Hitler's oratory. For good measure he added fire-and-brimstone agitprop, Big Speeches attacking capitalists and dictators which could have been lifted verbatim from propagandist stands in Waiting for Lefty.
Had Odets managed to bite the hand which fed him $2,500 a week? By May he had finished the script and was so confident of its virtues, both aesthetic and political, that he told the New York Times: 'There is no attempt in Hollywood to stop anyone doing good writing … I believe that my ideas can be put over in pictures.' To prove his point, the shooting script of The General Died at Dawn found its way to the radical journal the New Masses for ideological inspection. In the magazine's July 1936 issue Sidney Kaufman endorsed the screenplay without reservation, praising Odets' instant mastery of cinematic technique. The New Masses also printed the text of two scenes, one in which O'Hara expounds on why he fights dictatorships ('You ask me why I'm for oppressed people? Because I got a background of oppression myself, and O'Hara and elephants don't forget'), and a second in which he rails against the warlord Yang for his self-serving philosophy ('Your belief is in your own very limited self-mine is in people! One day they'll walk on earth, straight, proud … men, not animals').
Both speeches survived in the release print. Why? Because here was evidence—to Paramount's glory—of the hand of Clifford Odets, the famous author of Waiting for Lefty: There is, however, evidence of post-production studio tampering. The lovers, Gary Cooper and Madeleine Carroll, are thrown together on a train in the middle of a complicated plot without introduction: the key meeting scene is simply missing. Surely Odets wrote it, and surely Milestone filmed it? Important political elements have also vanished. Kaufman alludes to a village laid ruin by Yang and a dead woman in a puddle: neither detail is in the movie. Yang's devastation is kept off screen entirely. Kaufman rejoiced that '150 million eyes and ears closely attentive' would heed the line, 'We who have been the anvil—will soon be the hammer.' But he rejoiced too soon: Odets' most overtly Marxist passage is not to be found in The General Died at Dawn.
O'Hara's radical speeches are in fact practically all that remains of 'leftist' content—and even these are undercut by Gary Cooper's delivery. Paramount Pictures was not the Group Theatre, and Gary Cooper, a political conservative, utters Odets' passionate words with the commitment of an actor under a multi-picture contract. Clurman wrote to Odets: 'Our greatest lesson was to hear lines so characteristic of you become almost imperceptible … when said by actors with no relation to them.'
The General Died at Dawn won no Academy Awards, nor deserved to. Seen today, it seems a silly, toothless imitation of, in particular, Shanghai Express (Paramount, 1932), which was similarly located on an Oriental train to nowhere. General Yang is a brazen copy of the title character in Frank Capra's The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1932). (And, yes, Gary Cooper does say to Madeleine Carroll, 'We could have made wonderful music together.' That woeful line was written by Odets.) As for the film's politics, who can unravel the warring sides? When Paramount re-released the film in 1949, an opening title was added: 'Some time back in the early days of the Chinese government, the Chinese people, led by the great Chiang Kai-Shek, fought to rid themselves of the last of the warlords who preyed upon remote provinces. This picture is inspired by that battle and by its victorious conclusion.'
Odets never refuted this Cold War interpretation, which was undoubtedly the antithesis of his intentions: Chiang Kai-Shek, in fact, was probably the inspiration of General Yang. However, when Odets appeared voluntarily before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1952, he denied having inserted any social comment into the film, or even that he had told the Daily Worker in 1937 that 'I got away with some stuff' in the script. Odets confessed, perhaps disingenuously: 'I thought the whole matter was nonsense because The General Died at Dawn is a picture that starred Gary Cooper and (was) done by Paramount. There was nothing of any subversive or propaganda nature in it … I don't think Hollywood has ever made a movie with left propaganda in it. And I think the whole matter of social messages … cannot happen.'
Back in Hollywood, 1937, now married to the actress Luise Rainer, Odets was employed by Paramount on two projects, Gettysburg and Castles in Spain. Of Gettysburg Margaret Brenman-Gibson wrote: 'As soon would become his practice, Odets let this film script become longer and longer as he tried to improve it. He seemed unable to accomplish this, and the mammoth screenplay, with its torrent of colourful, lively dialogue, would soon be shelved …' Castles in Spain, an adaptation of Ilya Ehrenburg's The Loves of Jeanne Ney, switched to Loyalist Spain, went through two versions before the project was passed to another Group playwright, John Howard Lawson; his rewrite became the film Blockade (1938). Odets complained in public for the first time about the Hollywood screenwriting process. He told World Film News: 'When I saw (Blockade), I couldn't find one line left of what I'd written … I never sat through a film y'know without thinking to myself, "That's not true. It's a lie."
Hollywood began to fill up with members of the Group Theatre seeking film work: Elia Kazan, Morris Carnovsky, Phoebe Brand, Ruth Nelson, Luther Adler and even Harold Clurman himself. The arrival of his colleagues did not free Odets' scenario-writing blocks, but it did ease the passage of his new play, Golden Boy. The critic Gerald Rabkin noted how Odets turned Hollywood subject matter and technique (the short scene and the fadeout) 'against itself, in order to combat the mythic Hollywood success story.' In Golden Boy, Odets, the insider, thumbed his nose at Hollywood. Unlike his pre-studio plays, which were sprinkled with references to cinema stars and visits to the local bijou, Golden Boy never directly mentions the movies. Joe Bonaparte punches his way through the boxing world without once thinking of Paramount Pictures. At the same time, Odets expected his audience to recognise that Bonaparte's rise to the top, in a plot full of stock film figures, follows the mythic, linear form of Hollywood at its streamlined best. Then Odets mocked Hollywood with the downbeat off-screen deaths of Joe and Lorna, as intentionally unmotivated as the most tacked-on studio ending.
Golden Boy was a Broadway hit and Odets was converted back to the theatre. He published a bilious attack on the cinema under the studio system in the New York Times (21 November 1937): 'It is sad to see what movies are doing to America's consciousness of itself … Hollywood has set our citizens examples of conduct and behaviour patterns fit only for lower animals.' Odets became obsessed with getting the Federal Theatre to produce The Silent Partner across America (that same play which had lain stillborn in Hollywood because of The General Died at Dawn). Meanwhile, his new play, Rocket to the Moon, maltreated and ridiculed its only Hollywood-tainted character, the movie dance director Willy Wax. On the East Coast, Wax is regarded as an interloper, practically a carpetbagger. Success, Odets wrote of this weakling and womanizer, had given him an 'unpleasant uneasiness'. He narrowly escapes death by strangulation.
Odets was asked on radio if serious-minded dramatists should try Hollywood. 'Flatly, the answer is they must stay where they are, myself included.' True to his new word, Odets declined Rouben Mamoulian's offer to write the script of Golden Boy for Columbia Pictures. In 1939, Hollywood took its revenge. The film of Golden Boy, written by Daniel Taradash and Lewis Meltzer stripped away Joe's brother Frank, the radical labour organiser, and also much of Odets' social-consciousness sermonising. Most serious, the unhappy ending was blithely repaired with a full life ahead for Joe and Lorna.
In 1940, unable to mount a Boston-to-New York production of Night Music without investment money from United Artists, Odets was lured to Los Angeles to try to write a Night Music screenplay for the producers Albert Lewin and David Loew. His efforts were unavailing. The dramatist's swift artistic comeback was the 1941 play Clash by Night, in which the villain, Earl, is a movie projectionist. Willy Wax was only threatened with death; Earl is actually strangled. He dies in his projection box ('a veritable picture of some minor hell') while a vapid Hollywood picture runs on, wedding bells on the soundtrack.
The keynote speech in Clash by Night echoes Odets' criticism of Hollywood in Awake and Sing! Motion pictures give false hope to America's Little People. Joe speaks for all the play's lost characters: 'Earl, Jerry, Mae, millions like them clinging to a goofy dream—expecting life to be a picnic. Who taught them that? Radio, songs, the movies …' Clash by Night failed as Night Music had failed. Odets returned to Hollywood in 1942 and again (with his new wife, Betty Grayson) in 1943: this time he stayed for five years. In 1948 he told the New York Times: 'I went West … because I wanted to shake out of my system the disappointments of two successive commercial failures in the theatre … I was looking for a period of "creative repose": money, rest, and simple clarity.' Again he turned about. 'I went to Hollywood and found much of interest there … The cinema medium, as the platitude goes, is a very great one: why not explore the possibilities? Why not mingle with and learn from some of the world's shrewdest theatre technicians, including writers?'
Odets was signed by Warner Brothers to write a life of George Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue. Odets adored Gershwin and his script was 900 pages long. When he delivered it, Jack L. Warner promptly fired him, even though, according to Jean Negulesco, Odets begged to be allowed for no extra fee to compress the script to a more normal length. 'J. L. was adamant,' Negulesco remembered. 'He didn't want Odets in the studio. Another writer was called in to do a completely new job …'
The next studio to beckon Odets to Hollywood was RKO. In 1943 his agent arranged for Odets to write a movie version of None But the Lonely Heart, from the new novel by Richard Llewellyn. Odets liked the tale of a Cockney lad wandering in the bowels of between-the-wars London. He took the train West. On arrival at RKO, he learnt that Cary Grant was planned for the lead. 'There was silence for a moment and I asked if anyone read this book. It seemed no one had … When I met Cary for the first time, he said that he'd like me to direct the movie, too … (he) told me if I could write the words, I shall certainly be able to direct their use. Well, I did.'
Out of Clifford Odets' screenplays came the narrative technique for Golden Boy; out of his life in Hollywood came The Big Knife. At the centre of his career as a film-maker, however, is None But the Lonely Heart. Among its admirers were James Agee and Jean Renoir, and the reason is not far to seek. On his first time behind the camera, Odets took command. The result was assured, poetic and personal. Though there are compromises in the studio casting—an insufferably pixyish Barry Fitzgerald and a miscast Cary Grant—None But the Lonely Heart remains a small model of a successful literary transformation, rather than an adaptation.
The ambitious, overlong and overwritten novel is about a working-class boy who never learns. Like his father, Ernie Mott aspires to be a painter; but he's sidetracked by flashy mobsters. Eventually, he stops talking about art and begins carting a gun. 'The gun felt like some old pal … kind of cool and steady, ready to do a job without no backchat or fuss.' As his mother lies dying of cancer, Ernie for a moment grows fearful of impending loneliness. 'Funny how the whole place was sort of dead cold without her … He started shaking so much he could hardly make a move, and the place was coming over dark with the grey of rain outside.' By the end, however, Ernie is back to oblivion: 'He was going to get a suit like Jim, and a tie pin, and proper look the part of The Smasher. He started feeling sorry for everybody going to work, because there was no need of it.'
The movie Ernie Mott is of a different, romantic breed: an instantly recognizable Odets dreamer, wishing for so much more than his assigned slum-life existence. As Cary Grant's Ernie Mott walks through London, a voice proclaims: 'The Story of Ernie Mott, who searched for a free, a beautiful and noble life in the second quarter of the twentieth century.' The conflict is pure Odets from the time of Awake and Sing!: the head-in-the-clouds son versus the materialistic mother. Ernie's mother wants her son in her second-hand shop. But he objects: 'I'm not in the business of sweating pennies out of devils poorer than myself.' In a patented Odets soliloquy, Ernie ponders his ambitions: 'Life is a piece of meat, when you know how … Take what you want? Right? Right! So that's what it's all about—either be a Victim or be a Thug. But suppose … suppose you don't want to be neither? Not a hare an' not a hound. Then what?'
Having discovered that his mother has cancer, Ernie decides for the time being to stay at home and help in the shop; and the movie's most tender scenes are those in which Ernie and his mother (Ethel Barrymore) come together as a true family. On the outside, however, Ernie chooses to run with the hounds: he joins a gang of thieves headed by Jim Mordinoy, having fallen in love with Mordinoy's girl, Ada. Odets takes Ernie through a swirl of London nightlife: it is a familiar film noir tale of the 40s, of the outsider whose love for a corroded woman weds him to a decadent and criminal, 24-hour-a-day nightclub life. The noir sections of the film are swift, hardboiled and laced with tart dialogue. When Odets makes mistakes they are personal rather than generic, such as overplaying a Jewish pawnbroker, a sententious character who acts as Ernie's conscience, or making too much of the dichotomy between dark Ada and nice Aggie, who plays the cello at night and loves Ernie loyally despite his errant ways.
The last scenes of None But the Lonely Heart show Odets in the full flood of his romantic idealism, and they bear comparison with the final curtains of his best plays. The Cockney Orpheus has ascended from the underworld, given Ada back to the sharks and turned away from crime. London is about to be blitzed. He stands on a bridge and addresses his ageing pal, Twite: 'I'm dreaming, Dad, "a dream of a better man." Where's the decent, human life the books tell us about? When's the world coming out of its midnight? When's the human soul getting off its knees?' Twite reminds him that it sometimes takes a war. Ernie agrees: 'That's it, Dad, one thing is left. I see it plain as London town! Fight with the men who'll fight for a human way of life!' With that chivalrous pledge, Ernie descends from the bridge into the dark tentative city. The last shot is subdued: Ernie, all sobriety, standing at Aggie's door; he enters, but there is no shot of the lovers. Odets holds his camera on the street, keeping sentimentality at bay.
Ethel Barrymore won an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress for her role in None But the Lonely Heart the film, however, did poorly at the box office, this being the reason, perhaps, why Odets' directing career was curtailed. What did follow, however, were numerous writing assignments in the 1940s and two screen credits.
Odets' 900-page Rhapsody in Blue was transformed into Humoresque (Warner, 1946). A new writer, Zachary Gold, cut the script down, eliminated the Gershwin biography, but kept Oscar Levant, Gershwin's pianist friend, as a major character; then he grafted what was left on to bits of Fanny Hurst's 1919 short story. That, at least, is director Jean Negulesco's version of how Odets and Zachary Gold came to share screen credit on Humoresque. But confusion arises from the number of Humoresque versions in the Warner Film Library housed at the University of Wisconsin's Center for Film and Theater Research. There are eight treatments by different people, plus scripts by Waldo Salt and Barney Glazer, but nothing from Zachary Gold. (Odets is represented by an anthology composite of Rhapsody in Blue scenes, seemingly compiled by a secretary.)
If Odets' career is to be measured by how shrewdly he subverted the studio system, then Humoresque is a meretricious project, the ultimate sellout. It is artificial, overripe, quintessentially Hollywood. But taken on its own terms, as a delirious John Garfield-Joan Crawford 'woman's picture', it often succeeds. It is played to the hilt by the dashing stars, and reaches a crescendo in a grand steal from A Star Is Born: Joan Crawford drowns herself in the ocean, in sacrifice, while violinist Garfield plays on, courtesy of Isaac Stern.
In 1946, Odets wrote Deadline at Dawn from a florid, amusing Cornell Woolrich thriller. It was directed at RKO by Harold Clurman, who at night in Hollywood wrote his masterly memoir of the 1930s, The Fervent Years. Clurman never particularly liked the movies, even when making one. Later he recalled, 'My almost casual attitude towards the job met with resentment, perhaps because I finished the film on time and it proved moderately profitable.' Clurman labelled Deadline at Dawn 'a run-of-the-mill RKO movie for which Clifford Odets as a favour to me wrote the screenplay.' Odets had a better opinion of it. 'I'm not ashamed of that,' he said in 1963. 'It's a little mystery thriller. I see it; it has its living moments.'
Between 1942–48, Odets was a prolific Hollywood scenarist. He planned a biography of Beethoven for Charles Laughton, though how much was written is unclear. Margaret Brenman-Gibson credits him with unproduced screenplays for projects called All Brides Are Beautiful, April Shower and The Whispering Cup and, interestingly, an adaptation of Dreiser's Sister Carrie. She also lists Odets working uncredited on Sister Kenny (1946) and Hitchcock's Notorious (1946). Unfortunately, there is no other record of Odets' involvement with the latter. And there is another project calling for further research: the complete Odets script for It's a Wonderful Life (1946). Although Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett were hired for the final script, Frank Capra acknowledges in his autobiography, The Name Above the Title, that he retained Odets' early scenes.
Odets' West Coast days between 1942–48 exploded back on the New York stage as The Big Knife in 1949. The character of actor Charlie Castle is, unmistakably, a projection of the screen writer Odets. But what exactly troubles Castle? The second-rate movies he has worked on? All Hollywood pictures? The compromised work ethic of Southern California? The sterile life in the sun? Failed personal relationships? (The dissolution of the Group?) As its many critics have observed, The Big Knife is as muddled and contradictory as Odets' own vacillating opinions of Hollywood. (Regrettably, the 1955 film, directed by Robert Aldrich, was foggy and ill-motivated, probably because it was too loyal to the original script.)
In 1952, Odets appeared before HUAC, named names and then described his own non-subversive occupation: 'To speak generally, I go to Hollywood to make a living, not to write something … to demean or disgrace American people as I believe many people do. But to make an honest living, after writing entertaining scripts.' In 1955, after the death of his wife, Odets returned for good to Hollywood. He worried obsessively about having been a 'friendly' government witness. And he went back to writing screenplays.
Odets' chief disappointment in the years 1955–63 was that his monumental Biblical screenplay Joseph and His Brethren remained unproduced, even though Harry Cohn, president of Columbia, was an enthusiast. Frank Capra and Otto Preminger were asked to direct it, and Rita Hayworth was scheduled to star. Perhaps Odets' most challenging assignment in these years was to write (uncredited) the last scene of Nicholas Ray's Bigger Than Life (1956). What is to happen when James Mason wakes in hospital and realises, having suffered delusions of grandeur under a new wonder drug, that he tried to kill his son in imitation of Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac? Odets' solution was disappointingly conventional: Mason wakes up healed and normal, realises his mistake and embraces his wife and son in reaffirmation of the 1950s nuclear family.
The best of the later screenplays is Sweet Smell of Success, a patented Odets story about the heated symbiotic relationship between a Broadway press agent and a big-time gossip columnist. For this script, revised from an earlier one by Ernest Lehman, Odets could run free with zesty New York dialogue and non-stop Runyanisms. Here are none of the conscience-stricken characters of The Big Knife. Sweet Smell of Success wisely stays among the show-business shills and heels: Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis), PR man supreme, 'the boy with the ice-cream face', and J. J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster), the Walter Winchell-like gossip maven, who brags 'My right hand hasn't seen my left hand for thirty years.'
In 1960, Odets both wrote and directed a picture for the first time since None But the Lonely Heart. But The Story on Page One is two hours of tired and overacted courtroom drama which reveals, principally, that as Odets' politics grew more conservative, his vision of the working class grew more condescending. While Odets' films were claustrophobic, with their weak, compromised characters, the playwright himself began to speak out about the need for strong, uncontaminated national heroes. On 25 May 1952, six days after his final HUAC appearance, Odets eulogised John Garfield, who had just died aged 39, in a letter to the New York Times: 'He was as pure an American product as can be seen these days, processed by democracy, knowing or caring nothing for any other culture or race … His feeling never changed: that he had been mandated by the American people to go in there and "keep punching" for them.'
'One thing we need badly is heroes,' Odets told the New York Herald Tribune in 1958. 'As Emerson said, a hero must be a minority of one. He must be an ethical model who breaks the mould of conformity, but this is the age of conformity.' Four years later, he romanticised Marilyn Monroe in Show as a natural spirit who was ruined by the deprivations of her childhood, then callously treated by the studio system: 'That she could be sensitive, intuitive and with an animal wisdom far beyond them, most of the executives with whom she collided did not even dream.'
Odets' last screenplay was Wild in the Country, written for Elvis Presley in 1962. 'It pained me to hear him rationalise writing the screenplay,' Harold Clurman said, 'by declaring that Presley was something more than he seemed.' But was not Presley the perfect new Odets hero: the truck-driving country boy who keeps his Tennessee accent and Southern ways in homogenised Southern California? As the title suggests, the film is about a tearaway who keeps his rural integrity while all about him—bullying family, dishonourable towns-people—try to corrupt him, send him to jail, break his spirit. Yet there are echoes of that unmistakable Odets voice. Presley (Glenn Taylor): 'Don't let your Pa beat your wings down.' Tuesday Weld: 'Your aim is to fly above me. But if you ever come tumbling down, I can wait!' And the solution to the hero's burden of social problems? He is packed off to a safe university to become a writer. The last cinematic image Odets leaves us is of Glenn Taylor walking awed into the halls of learning: Elvis Goes to College.
In 1963, Clifford Odets became a writer for the Richard Boone Show, suddenly evincing the same enthusiasm for television that he had expressed, at various times, for the movies. He died of cancer that same year aged 57. Dead in Hollywood.
Were his years in movies worth it? His old Group Theatre friends, those still left after HUAC, remained as angry about the sacrifice of talent as they had been when Odets sidled off to Hollywood in 1935. In August 1963, Harold Clurman wrote in the New York Times: 'Now think of … the little floozie in The Big Knife. The girl is a confused victim of the Hollywood industry. She is both sordid and pathetic … She is Odets' female alter ego.' According to Margaret Brenman-Gibson, 'Elia Kazan said he could have forgiven Clifford anything except the grievous waste of … time and talent in writing films.'
None But the Lonely Heart, yes, and that splendid script for Sweet Smell of Success. Otherwise the Group Theatre was right from the start: one of America's major playwrights became only an intriguing footnote among film-makers. He sold out. Having gone merely to look round, he ended by becoming Hollywood. He was cremated, appropriately enough, at Forest Lawn cemetery. Odets' friend Jean Renoir understood the ties that bind. 'When Clifford Odets died,' Renoir said, 'I thought I wanted to leave Hollywood. He was a prince. Every gesture, every way of thinking was noble. Although I love Hollywood, I have to say it is without nobility. But I stayed, of course.'
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