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ERNEST Hemingway and Hollywood had a tempestuous relationship - but his utter hatred of the movies made from his famed novels is now just coming to light. In "The Good Life According to Hemingway," out next month, A.E. Hotchner, who traveled the globe with him, bares a series of never-before-published slaps Hemingway took at the film business. When producer David O. Selznick crowed that his wife, Jennifer Jones, was starring in "A Farewell to Arms" and he'd pay Hemingway a $50,000 bonus from any profits, the novelist wrote back: "If by some miracle, your movie, which stars 41-year-old Mrs....

Matt Drudge has announced his acquisition of documents from the Army investigation into allegations of misconduct made by Private Scott Beauchamp, and they make The New Republic look like the Nixon administration for stonewalling. He provides PDFs of the documents as support as well. Beauchamp admitted to investigators that he made up most of the stories, including the most disturbing tale of troops harassing a disfigured woman, as well as running over dogs in armored personnel carriers. Why did Beauchamp tell these lies? He had literary aspirations and didn't mind libeling his comrades to achieve them: Army Investigation: Tales "Completely...

The Last Crusade: Spain 1936By Warren Carroll(Christendom Press/ISI Books, 240 pages, $15) WHEN THE HEROICS of the Spanish Civil War come up -- Orwell's Homage to Catalonia, Hemingway's fictions or the effusions of various poets -- there is a very large and usually unremarked elephant in the room: Orwell, who actually fought, and Hemingway who wrote about fighting, were on the wrong side. The strategic point is simple: had the Stalinists won war, then during the period of the Hitler-Stalin pact from 1939 to mid-1941, they would have allowed Hitler to cross Spain and seize Gibraltar. Had this happened, the...

By Catherine Elsworth in Los Angeles Last Updated: 1:50am BST 31/07/2007 Animal welfare officials are demanding that cats that have roamed Ernest Hemingway's Florida home for decades be subject to laws that would require them to be locked up at night.Nearly 50 "free range" felines, some descendants of the author's pet cat Snowball, have had the run of the Hemingway House and Museum in Key West for generations. The animals are named after the author's wives, his fictional characters, friends and contemporaries, including Truman Capote, Audrey Hepburn and Joan Crawford. They are fed organic cat food and visited regularly by...

The caretakers of Ernest Hemingway's Key West home want a federal judge to intervene in their dispute with the U.S. Department of Agriculture over the six-toed cats that roam the property. More than 50 descendants of a multi-toed cat the novelist received as a gift in 1935 wander the grounds of the home, where Hemingway lived for more than 10 years. The Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum disputes the USDA's claim that it is an "exhibitor" of cats and needs to have a USDA Animal Welfare License, according to a complaint filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Miami. "What...

Hemingway's Fishing Boat May Be Restored Ernest Hemingway's 40-foot, black-hulled fishing boat, the Pilar, could be getting a little restorative nip and tuck. Local watercraft preservation specialist Dana Hewson and members of the Boston-based Hemingway Preservation Foundation are heading to Finca Vigia, Hemingway's estate in Cuba, where he will photograph and examine the Pilar. "Professionally, this is a really fascinating project for me," Hewson told The Day of New London. He works at Mystic Seaport. Hemingway sailed the boat when he lived in Cuba from 1939 to 1960, and is said to have conceived some of his greatest works, including...

In Paris in 1925 Ernest Hemingway wrote my favorite political poem. Eighty years later, it is still relevant. Think of the mass mob reaction to the UAE Port fracas. Think of the UN’s internal corruption and inability to deal with the most egregious of international dangers – Iran’s nuclear program. Think of France. Somebody has to, I suppose. But seriously, think of this Persian "civil war" for which the formerly relevant mass American media is strenuously lobbying. It is news to these people that the Baathists who ruled Iraq with an iron fist for many decades are by way of...

Well, I saw the first movie ever based on a book by Ernest Hemingway, and I expect it will be my last. Its the first disappointment I've had with the old movies I bought from Big Lots. It was a 1932 version of Hemingway's classic, "A Farewell to Arms." On the bright side, it helped my wife get some much needed rest. Having watched it in all of its depressing detail, I think I'm through with Ernest Hemingway. There's a certain quality to some authors, they just don't interest me. I've tried with their best works in my High School...

Tropical fruit trees and trim gardens greet visitors to Ernest Hemingway’s sprawling estate on the outskirts of Havana, but the wooden home where he lived for more than 20 years is falling apart — hit by erosion, tropical humidity and botched repairs. But American preservationists riding to the rescue have run up against the politics dividing the U.S. and Cuban governments. The Bush administration has taken a tough stance on the communist-run island, tightening long-standing trade and travel restrictions. The result: The preservationists were denied a license to travel to Cuba last year. But the Hemingway Preservation Foundation in Concord,...

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LONDON — The green-gold expanse of savanna; above it, the purple horizon-hiding haze; and above that, like a pyramid improbably suspended in the sky, the snows of Kilimanjaro. "Great, high and unbelievably white in the sun," as Hemingway wrote, the continent of Africa — some would say our planet itself — has hardly anything to show more fair. But the show could soon be over. The summit of Kilimanjaro is losing its ice so quickly that it could be barren dirt before the next decade is out. When the ice goes, it will take with it an irreplaceable 10-millennium record...

Did Oliver Stone's wet kiss to Fidel Castro spoil the Cuban landscape for other U.S. filmmakers? Producers of a movie about Ernest Hemingway have been denied permission by the State Department to film on the Communist isle, in part, says a source, because of Stone's documentary "Comandante." "The State Department isn't giving permission for any location shoots in Cuba partly because of how Oliver Stone's documentary about Fidel turned out," according to the source. Stone spent three days following the Cuban dictator around last year, turning 30 hours of footage into "Comandante," which makes Castro seem warm and cuddly when...