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34-421: Based on the 1964 novel Buddwing by Evan Hunter , the black-and-white drama was written by Dale Wasserman , and accompanied by a jazz-based musical score written by Kenyon Hopkins . In his memoirs, Garner said "I'd summarize the plot but to this day I have no clue what it is. Worst picture I ever made. What were they thinking? What was I thinking?" A man wakes up on a New York park bench to find that his mind

68-412: A Budweiser beer truck and an airplane. Gloria, a liquor-sodden slattern, does not recognize him but, as he is leaving, gives him a handful of cash, purely out of pity. Trying to pull himself together over breakfast he sees a giant headline blaring the news of the escape of a violently insane criminal. Finding a possible match with one of the initials inside the ring he is wearing he immediately fears he

102-613: A destroyer in the Pacific. However, none of these stories was published until after he had established himself as an author in the 1950s. After the war, Lombino returned to New York and attended Hunter College , where he majored in English and psychology, with minors in dramatics and education, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1950. He published a weekly column in the Hunter College newspaper as "S.A. Lombino". In 1981, Lombino

136-458: A scavenger hunt spies the tall, handsome man on the sidewalk. After boozing some together on the nearest stoop the pair end up in Harlem , seeking to clear $ 100,000 in a craps game to complete her list. Becoming woozy, Buddwing once again lapses into a conscious flashback, this time with The Blonde as his troubled wife Grace. In spite of having achieved success the couple has lost everything: she

170-410: A director for whom he frequently worked including House of Strangers (1949), No Way Out (1950) and 5 Fingers (1952). He received the first of 17 Academy Award nominations in 1951 for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White for All About Eve , also directed by Mankiewicz. He won his first Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Color in 1954 for his work on The Robe . He

204-442: A nightmare of fighting with her - by the name of Grace, and again his wife - over a pregnancy he feels they cannot afford. He insists on an abortion. Crushed, "Grace" climbs over the guardrail of the 59th Street Bridge , ready to commit suicide. He arrives to save her just in time. Snapping out of it, he flees once again, ending up buying a pint of whisky and looking for somewhere to paper-bag it alone. A socialite out for kicks on

238-456: A novel called Candyland appeared that was credited to both Hunter and McBain. The two-part novel opened in Hunter's psychologically based narrative voice before switching to McBain's customary police procedural style. Aside from McBain, Hunter used at least two other pseudonyms for his fiction after 1960: Doors (1975), which was originally attributed to Ezra Hannon before being reissued as

272-493: A novel he wrote would sell more copies if credited to Evan Hunter than to S. A. Lombino. Thereafter, he used the name Evan Hunter both personally and professionally. As Evan Hunter, he gained notice with his novel The Blackboard Jungle (1954) dealing with juvenile crime and the New York City public school system. The film adaptation followed in 1955. During this era, Hunter also wrote a great deal of genre fiction. He

306-497: A painter, who died in 2006. A heavy smoker for many decades, Hunter had three heart attacks over a number of years (his first in 1987) and needed heart surgery. A precancerous lesion was found on his larynx in 1992. This was removed, but the cancer later returned. In 2005, Hunter died in Weston, Connecticut from laryngeal cancer . He was 78. George Davis (art director) George Davis (April 17, 1914 – October 3, 1998)

340-513: A scene. A policeman arrives, Buddwing is questioned, but flees when the patrolman becomes distracted by hecklers. He is pursued by a mad street person, who raves that indeed Buddwing is the murderer on the loose. More spooked than ever Buddwing races away, ending up aimlessly roaming the sidewalks. Soon he meets coquettish actress "Fiddle". They have sex, after which he instinctively begins to play piano, jarring loose more fragments of his possible former identity. Falling asleep in her arms he roils in

374-769: A work by McBain, and Scimitar (1992), which was credited to John Abbott. Hunter gave advice to other authors in his article "Dig in and get it done: no-nonsense advice from a prolific author (aka Ed McBain) on starting and finishing your novel". In it, he advised authors to "find their voice for it is the most important thing in any novel". Hunter was long rumored to have written an unknown number of pornographic novels, as Dean Hudson, for William Hamling's publishing houses. Hunter adamantly and consistently denied writing any books as Hudson until he died. However, apparently his agent Scott Meredith sold books to Hamling's company as Hunter's work (for attribution as "Dean Hudson") and received payments for these books in cash. While notable, it

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408-424: A year until his death. Additionally, NBC ran a police drama called 87th Precinct during the 1961–62 season, based on McBain's work. From 1978 to 1998, McBain published a series about lawyer Matthew Hope; books in this series appeared every year or two, and usually had titles derived from well-known children's stories. For about a decade, from 1984 to 1994, Hunter published no fiction under his own name. In 2000,

442-486: Is a miserable tramp, unable to get over an abortion that left her sterile, he is trapped in his own web of affluence at the expense of honoring his inborn talent. In his trance he sees a blood-spattered vanity top and a razor blade. Like a lightning bolt it dawns on him he had, that morning, dialed the right phone number in the wrong area code . It was not for "Monument" on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, it

476-421: Is a total blank. He has no identification or money on him, just a slip of folded paper in his pocket, enclosing two large white pills and with a phone number written on it. He rings the number, reaching Gloria, who first mistakes him for her shiftless husband Sam. Arranging a rendezvous, he creates a name for himself, appropriating "Sam" and cobbling "Buddwing" from the first two things that seize his attention,

510-718: Is not definitive proof: Meredith almost certainly forwarded novels to Hamling by any number of authors, claiming these novels were by Hunter simply to make a sale. Ninety-three novels were published under the Hudson name from 1961 to 1969, and even the most avid proponents of the Hunter-as-Hudson theory do not believe Hunter is responsible for all 93. He had three sons: Richard Hunter, an author, speaker, advisor to chief information officers on business value and risk issues, and harmonica player; Mark Hunter, an academic, educator, investigative reporter, and author; and Ted Hunter,

544-474: Is this criminal. Shortly, he spots a woman on the street he thinks he knows and hails her as "Grace". A student at a music school in Washington Square , Janet proves a stranger, but a flashback of a romance with her from college days goes through Buddwing's mind. In it he is the music student, she is "Grace", and they impulsively marry. Back in the park Janet rejects his attentions and creates

578-508: The 1964 New York World's Fair and the primary designer of Park City, Utah . He was married to Barbara Louise Davis (née Davies) who died in 1990 at the age of 73. They had 2 children (Karen Louise Hoy, born 1940 and George Christopher Davis, born 1943). He lived in the same home in Santa Monica, California, from 1948 to his death in 1998. Davis won Oscars for his work on The Robe (1953) and The Diary of Anne Frank (1959). He

612-450: The pen names Evan Hunter and Hunt Collins. The name Evan Hunter is generally believed to have been derived from two schools he attended, Evander Childs High School and Hunter College, although the author himself would never confirm that. (He did confirm that Hunt Collins was derived from Hunter College.) Lombino legally changed his name to Evan Hunter in May 1952, after an editor told him that

646-463: The 1950s previously attributed to other pseudonyms were reissued under the McBain byline. Hunter stated that the division of names allowed readers to know what to expect: McBain novels had a consistent writing style, while Hunter novels were more varied. Under the Hunter name, novels steadily appeared throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s, including Come Winter (1973) and Lizzie (1984). Hunter

680-527: The Bronx. He attended Olinville Junior High School (later Richard R. Green Middle School #113), then Evander Childs High School (now Evander Childs Educational Campus ), before winning a New York Art Students League scholarship. Later, he was admitted as an art student at Cooper Union . Lombino served in the United States Navy during World War II and wrote several short stories while serving aboard

714-577: The West Was Won (1963), Twilight of Honor (1963), The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964), The Americanization of Emily (1964), A Patch of Blue (1965), Mr. Buddwing (1966). He also worked extensively in TV on such shows as The Twilight Zone and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. . Davis was also the initial project manager of Tokyo Disneyland , designed the General Motors exhibit at

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748-449: The limb moves, beckoning his hands. He takes her hand and clasps it in his, sharing his rediscovered life force with her. The film was nominated for two Academy Awards ; for Best Costume Design, Black and White ( Helen Rose ) and Best Art Direction, Black and White ( George Davis , Paul Groesse , Henry Grace , and Hugh Hunt ). Evan Hunter Evan Hunter (born Salvatore Albert Lombino ; October 15, 1926 – July 6, 2005)

782-685: The names S. A. Lombino, Evan Hunter, Richard Marsten, D. A. Addams, and Ted Taine. Ed McBain, his best known pseudonym, was first used with Cop Hater (1956), the first novel in the 87th Precinct crime series. Hunter revealed that he was McBain in 1958 but continued to use the pseudonym for decades, notably for the 87th Precinct series and the Matthew Hope detective series. He retired the pen names Addams, Cannon, Collins, Marsten, and Taine around 1960. From then on crime novels were generally attributed to McBain and other sorts of fiction to Hunter. Reprints of crime-oriented stories and novels written in

816-399: The novel's rape scene, and the writer was sacked. Hunter's other screenplays included Strangers When We Meet (1960), based on his own 1958 novel; and Fuzz (1972), based on his eponymous 1968 87th Precinct novel, which he had written as Ed McBain. After having thirteen 87th Precinct novels published from 1956 to 1960, further 87th Precinct novels appeared at a rate of approximately one

850-515: The screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock ’s 1963 film The Birds , based on the Daphne du Maurier short story . Hunter, who legally adopted that name in 1952, also used the pen names John Abbott , Curt Cannon , Hunt Collins , Ezra Hannon and Richard Marsten , among others. Salvatore Lombino was born and raised in New York City. He lived in East Harlem until age 12, when his family moved to

884-562: Was adapted into the film Blackboard Jungle (1955). In 1951, Lombino took a job as an executive editor for the Scott Meredith Literary Agency, working with authors such as Poul Anderson , Arthur C. Clarke , Lester del Rey , Richard S. Prather , and P.G. Wodehouse . He made his first professional short story sale the same year, a science-fiction tale titled "Welcome, Martians!", credited to S. A. Lombino. Soon after his initial sale, Lombino sold stories under

918-474: Was advised by his agents that publishing too much fiction under the Hunter byline, or publishing any crime fiction as Evan Hunter, might weaken his literary reputation. Consequently, during the 1950s Hunter used the pseudonyms Curt Cannon, Hunt Collins, and Richard Marsten for much of his crime fiction. A prolific author in several genres, Hunter also published approximately two dozen science fiction stories and four science-fiction novels between 1951 and 1956 under

952-548: Was also heavily involved in some of the other big religious productions of the 1950s, such as David and Bathsheba (1951), Demetrius and the Gladiators and The Egyptian (both 1954). In 1959 he joined Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and became the studio's supervising art director following the death of William A. Horning , with Hans Peters as his assistant. He won his second Academy Award in 1960 for Best Art Direction, Black-and-White for The Diary of Anne Frank which

986-475: Was also successful as screenwriter for film and television. He wrote the screenplay for the Alfred Hitchcock film The Birds (1963), loosely adapted from Daphne du Maurier 's eponymous 1952 novelette . Following The Birds , Hunter was again hired by Hitchcock to complete an in-progress script adapting Winston Graham 's novel Marnie . However, Hunter and the director disagreed on how to treat

1020-517: Was an American art director and was the supervising art director at MGM from 1959 to 1970. He won two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction for his work on The Robe in 1954 and for The Diary of Anne Frank in 1960. Davis began his career as a sketch artist at Warner Brothers Studio. He joined the U.S. Marines during World War II and was discharged as a colonel. He then began work at 20th Century Fox with his first film being Joseph L. Mankiewicz 's fantasy The Ghost and Mrs. Muir in 1947,

1054-425: Was an American author of crime and mystery fiction . He is best known as the author of 87th Precinct novels, published under the pen name Ed McBain , which are considered staples of police procedural genre. His other notable works include The Blackboard Jungle , a semi-autobiographical novel about life in a troubled inner-city school, which was adapted into a hit 1955 film of the same name . He also wrote

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1088-566: Was for Mt. Kisco in Westchester County . He calls and finds the number reaches a hospital, and it all starts to come together for him: he had married Grace, she had had an abortion, they never could have a family, he had indeed sacrificed his talent for success as an A&R man as he had told her he intended to, and revolted her. She had slashed her wrists, but was barely alive. He begs to be able to see her. He takes her lifeless arm. He fears her last breaths are ebbing away. Slowly

1122-540: Was inducted into the Hunter College Hall of Fame, where he was honored for outstanding professional achievement. While looking to start a career as a writer, Lombino took a variety of jobs, including 17 days as a teacher at Bronx Vocational High School in September 1950. This experience would later form the basis for his novel The Blackboard Jungle (1954), written under the pen name Evan Hunter, which

1156-645: Was made during his time at Fox. At the Academy Awards in 1963, he was nominated for three films - The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm , Mutiny on the Bounty and Period of Adjustment . His 17th and last nomination was for The Shoes of the Fisherman in 1969. Other notable films include Love is a Many Splendored Thing (1955), Funny Face (1957), Cimarron (1960), How

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