A Little Holiday
Geoffrey Wheatcroft: Ben Hecht’s Cause, 23 September 2021
Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures
by Adina Hoffman.
Yale, 245 pp., £10.99, April 2020,978 0 300 25181 4 Show More
by Adina Hoffman.
Yale, 245 pp., £10.99, April 2020,
“... credited him with being responsible for half of the most enjoyable Hollywood movies; Jean- Luc Godard went further: Hecht, he said, ‘invented 80 per cent of what is used in Hollywood movies today’.A Child of the Century, Hecht’s long, episodic, sprawling, picaresque, sardonic, bawdy, unreliable and intermittently riveting memoir, published in ... ”