Al manheim what makes sammy run

Al and Kit learn that they have many of the same interests and the same love for writing, theater and film. In their own ways they want to see purity in the writing world and more specifically in Hollywood.

Al and Kit also connect due to their intrigue and understanding of Sammy Glick's motivation and tactics. Kit makes an observation about Sammy that leads to Al's revelation that Sammy's poverty stricken past is what has shaped his future. In the end, Sammy gets the success, money and power that he fights for.

He pushes his way into being named the head of World-Wide Studios and he marries the studio chairman's daughter. Even with his ultimate achievement, Sammy is left to run a never-ending race with all of the players of the Hollywood game while Al is the one with the true gift of love and a fulfilling life.

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Budd Schulberg. Movie poster for the Schulberg-penned On The Waterfront. In the film, Terry Malloy Marlon Brando testifies against mob influence over the dockworkers union. Published 13 May Last updated 11 April A year in the middle. Sammy discovers Laurette makinglove in the guest room to Carter Judd, an actor Sammy has just hired. Laurette is not repentant: She coldbloodedly admits that she considers their marriage to be purely a business affair.

Sammy calls Manheim and asks him to come over to his place immediately. Once there, Manheim for the first time witnesses a self-conscious, desperate, and suffering Sammy Glick who cannot stand being alone in his big house. In the end, Sammy orders Sheik to get him a prostitute, while Manheim drives home. Already have an account? Log In Now. Your membership to AntiStudy is free! All we ask is that you give back to the community by donating an essay or biography that you've written.

Choose the file from your computer. Maximum allowable size is 10MB. Study Guide. You'll need to sign up to view the entire study guide. External Study Guides. Study Guides. And its not as if looking around at the real world would paint a different picture. I know it. You know it. We all know it. Are you one of the gazillions who wondered how Hillary Clinton could lose an election to Donald Trump?

Read this and wonder no more. Uh, no! What I appreciate most about this particular approach to this character study is the relationship between author Bud Schulberg and his anti-hero protagonist. It would have been so easy for Schulberg to have written in a sneering judgmental way. But, but, but. They walk a thin tightrope and manage to keep from falling. Definitely a worthy read, not just for the era in which it was written, but just as much for today.

Aug 16, Thomas J. Hubschman rated it really liked it. Good stuff. Great perennial American character, like Gatsby. A good example, though, of what Pritchett said about psychology being reduced to motivation in contemporary literature. The narrator is obsessed with finding out, well, what makes Sammy run--and run over so many people as he does so. I admire Schulberg if for no other reason than his old-fashioned attitude that there is more to write about than one's own ethnic group. Waterfront the novel could have been written by an Irish-Catholic f Good stuff.

Waterfront the novel could have been written by an Irish-Catholic from Hoboken, e. And Sammy would be a great creation if he were Hindu or Zoroastrian. Aug 06, John Mccullough rated it really liked it.

Sammy is the little guy, the one you miss seeing, who you forget about. But he is ruthless. And he is running. Always running. Schulberg provides us a chilling portrait of fairyland - where the movies aremade. A very, very good read. The story is, on the surface, all about the antagonist -a. Sammy — and his rise from being a Lower East Side punk to being a successful Hollywood producer. He does not approve of the way Sammy leads his life but nevertheless stays close to him professionally and is, in fact, so fascinated by him, that he is able to record the account that, we the readers, understand to be the book in our hands.

In short, Manheim comes off as a bit holier-than-thou. On a related note, I appreciated the strong female role of Kit, who is a screen writer, labor organizer and confidant to Manheim. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. This is what you could become. Running forever to reach what? The quotes'll capture it. Quotes: "I can still see Sammy racing between the desks, his tie flying wild-eyed, desperate. He was running against time.

It was funny as time went on This is what you could become. It was funny as time went on how the more I learned about one the more I understood about the other. Any yet they couldn't have been more different if one had been born an Eskimo and the other the Prince of Wales. And there were so many Julian Blumbergs in the world. Jews without money, without push, without plots, without any of the characteristics which such experts on genetics as Adolf Hitler, Henry Ford and Father Coughlin try to tell us are racial traits.

I have seen too many of their lonely frightened faces packed together in subways or staring out of thousands of dingy rooms as my train hurled past them on the elevated from th Street into Grand Central, too many Jewish nebs and poets and staving tailors and everyday little guys to consider the fascist answer to What Makes Sammy Run?

Nothing is ever quite so drab and repetitious and forlorn and ludicrous as truth. Know who it was about? He was climbing up a rope and I was chasing him, only the rope didn't seem to be tied to anything-just going straight up in the air. And every time he got near the end, it just kept getting longer. And then I fell off Sammy's flame was deceptive because you were always looking at it through the powerful magnifying glass of his own ego.

But when the telephone wires filed to transmit the magnetic current it was like standing off and looking at a small, cold star. He would still have to send out frantic S. I'm lonely. I'm nervous. I'm friendless. I'm desperate. Bring girls, bring Scotch, bring laughs. Bring a pause in the day's occupation, the quick sponge for the sweaty marathoner, the recreational pause that is brief and vulgar and titillating and quickly forgotten, like a dirty joke.

Fear of all the bright young men, the newer, fresher Sammy Glicks that would spring up to harass him, to threaten him and finally to overtake him. Jun 12, Michael Rollins rated it really liked it Shelves: fiction , When I first started this book, I was immediately gripped by the fast paced storytelling as we saw Sammy's life go from lowly office boy to high flying Hollywood writer in a flash.

I found the contrast between the two main characters interesting, particularly the way we had Al acting almost purely as an observer and commentator whilst Sammy was more like a star in his own movie. I did find in some areas of the book the story to be a bit lacking, however I did enjoy the sections on the writers gu When I first started this book, I was immediately gripped by the fast paced storytelling as we saw Sammy's life go from lowly office boy to high flying Hollywood writer in a flash.

I did find in some areas of the book the story to be a bit lacking, however I did enjoy the sections on the writers guild, and Al going back to NY to discover Sammy's back story.

Dec 15, Aubrey rated it really liked it Shelves: I didn't know what to expect when I started reading, except that F. Scott Fitzgerald recommended it. What I discovered, is a book with many quotable moments - many "aha" moments, so it didn't surprise me to learn that this novel had originally been a handful of short stories. Overall, this novel is a glimpse at the shadow behind the American dream, but also a psychological and moral analysis.

Interesting outlook on a young man who is ruthless in his tactics in getting ahead - it doesn't matter who he destroys on his way up -- it's all about him pg , paperback edition ". I know which note this is too, I said. Mi mi mi mi mi. Apr 23, Neil Pasricha rated it really liked it. A cautionary tale about the dangers of unbridled ambition. I have some pretty raw ambitious streaks and this was a nice reminder to constantly ground and recenter. Super snappy and fast-paced, too. Jan 04, Col rated it really liked it Shelves: s , Sammy Glick is a winner.

Witty, clever, action-packed and acutely observed, this classic of American literature, which has sold over a million copies, is as compelling and revealing now as it was when first published in this country in Click here to see what others have read. An interesting observation on Hollywood and the American dream played out to the nth degree. Eventually Sammy meets his match, when he encounters someone who can run faster than himself.

I thought unconsciously, I had been waiting for justice suddenly to rise up and smite him in all its vengeance, secretly hoping to be around when Sammy got what was coming to him; only I had expected something conclusive and fatal and now I realised what was coming to him was not a sudden pay-off but a process, a disease he had caught in the epidemic that swept over his birthplace like plague; a cancer that was slowly eating him away, the symptoms developing and intensifying: success, loneliness, fear.

It was too late to hate him or change him Sammy's will had curled in on itself, like an ingrown hair festering, spreading infection. He was known for his novel, What Makes Sammy Run? Bought copy recently from Amazon. Sep 09, Richard Thompson rated it really liked it Shelves: entertainment , american-literature. Sammy is a classic. Schulberg's characterization totally nails a personality type that all of us know. Sammy isn't unique to show business, but because show business rewards Sammy-type behavior more than most walks of life, we have a lot more of them in show business than most people see in regular everyday life.

The only thing that Schulberg got wrong is that this personality type is not something that can only arise in places like the tenements of New York's old time Lower East Side. I have me Sammy is a classic.

I have met Sammys from all sorts of backgrounds -- rich, poor, east coast, west coast, south, Jewish, Christian, white, black, whatever. It's an equal opportunity personality disorder.