Wait, what? I wish people wouldn’t say things like this without further explanation, because I’m pretty sure it isn’t true.

It is like whipped cream but you have to hit it harder.

This has continued, by the way, to the present day. People often get a laugh at seeing the “regular people” on old episodes of the Dating Game who turned out to be future stars. Today, there are fewer actors on game shows (though the more animated the show, the more likely it casts performers), but reality shows have not primarily cast with submissions from the general public for years.

I found some typos, though:
“Robert Redford, for instance, was a presented on a game show.”
He was a “presented”? I think should be “presenter”.

“Dig three balloons out of a vat of whopped cream…”
What’s whopped cream?

I swear that I’ve seen video of Hawks saying that he wired Faulkner first, who had already returned to Mississippi, then wired Chandler, neither of whom had a good answer.

There are a couple of complicating factors here. Both Faulkner and Chandler really meant that they didn’t care. Chandler has his famous line about how not caring about what Hollywood did to his books because the original was still on his shelf, and Faulkner had already washed his hands of the project.

Also, it should be pointed out that everyone DID know who killed the chauffeur in the book, but that person couldn’t do it in the movie because they didn’t get their just deserts at the end and that would violate the Hays code. Chandler wasn’t saying he didn’t know about the book, he was saying he didn’t know about the movie.

And I certainly agree that you should just call this a twice-weekly column and use the actual date. All the backdating gives the column an unnecessary patina of flopsweat for no good reason. It’s a great site and it’s no shame to post twice a week. (Although I’m not one to talk. I force myself to post everyday over at my blog and it’s sending me to an early grave)