What Makes Sammy Run? [Paperback]

The classic book that shaped two generations’ view of the movie business and introduced the is the archetypal Hollywood player Sammy Glick. He’s got a machete mouth and a genius for double-cross. As Budd Shulberg—author of the screenplayOn the Waterfront—follows Sammy’s relentless upward progress, he creates a virtuoso study in character that manages to be hilariously appalling yet deeply compassionate.
 
“Sammy Glick remains at the top of the Hollywood sleaze heap, a hustler nonpareil…. What Makes Sammy Run? Is still the quintessential novel about “the all-American heel.’” – Moredcai Richler,GQBudd Schulberg wroteOn the Waterfront, made into a movie starring Marlon Brando, andThe Harder They Fall, made into a movie starring Humphrey Bogart. He won an Oscar for the screenplay ofOn the Waterfrontseveral awards for his filmA Face in the Crowd, and a Tony nomination for his Broadway adaptation ofThe Disenchanted. He attributed his ability to adapt his own work to stage or screen to his upbringing in Hollywood, where his father ran a major motion-picture studio. He died in 2009 at the age of 95.US