Sparring With Hemingway: And Other Legends of the Fight Game

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by Budd Schulberg

Ortega, Gaspar, 97, 100

  Owen, Jimmy, 167

  Pacheco, Ferdie, 155, 160, 161, 180, 186, 192

  Page, Greg, 243

  Palermo, Blinky, 101-102, 124-129

  Pantaleo, Pete, 124, 125

  Papke, Billy, 20

  Paret, Benny, 140, 167

  Parker, Dan, 81

  Pastrano, Willie, 143

  Patterson, Floyd, 9, 77, 90-93, 130-142, 161, 198

  Patterson, Pat, 180, 191

  Paycheck, Johnny, 77

  Peale, Norman Vincent, 149

  Pellone, Tony, 97

  Pep, Willie, 73, 95, 100, 110, 158

  Peralta, Gregorio, 226

  Petronelli, Pat, 212

  Pfeiffer, Pauline, 17

  Pierce the Game Chicken, 10

  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 83

  Plimpton, George, 9

  Pointer Sisters, 179

  Poitier, Sidney, 180

  Povich, Shirley, 83

  Prejudice, 36-52, 139. See also Boxing, race and.

  Press. See Reporters.

  Promoters, 69-70, 124-129, 167, 227

  Pruden, Fritzie, 202

  Quarry, Jerry, 45, 162, 196

  Quarry, Mike, 94

  Queer Street, 195

  Rafferty, Phil, 185

  Rappaport, Dennis, 199, 202

  Reporters, 9, 21, 34, 45, 47, 83, 161, 200; in Zaire, 177-179

  Rice, Grantland, 35

  Richmond, Bill, 10

  Rickard, Tex, 44, 47

  Rindone, Joe, 121

  Ring magazine, 159

  Ritchie, Willie, 54

  Robinson, Sugar Ray, 95, 100, 119-123, 126, 129, 158, 193, 211

  Rocky, 194, 195, 209

  Rocky Kansas, 54

  Rooney, Kevin, 240

  Roper, Ruth, 221

  Ross, Barney, 83, 129, 193

  Rossman, Mike, 94

  Rothschild, Norman, 103

  Ryan, Paddy, 42, 164

  Ryan, Pat, 163

  Saddler, Sandy, 95, 110, 117

  Sadler, Dick, 179

  Sanford, Young, 94

  Sangor, Joey, 62

  Saroyan, William, 9

  Sarria, Luis, 174, 180

  Satterfield, Bob, 91

  Savold, Lee, 107

  Saxton, Johnny, 101-104, 123, 124-129, 140, 185

  Sayers, Tom, 107

  Schmeling, Max, 34, 49-52, 85, 126, 191

  Schulberg, B. P., 24

  Schulberg, Budd: The Disenchanted, 23-26; The Harder They Fall, 17, 33, 71-74, 141, 185, 204; On the Waterfront, 27; What Makes Sammy Run?, 17, 23, 72

  Schulberg, Stuart, 140

  Schwartz, Hank, 99

  Scott, Phil, 106

  Scypion, Wilford, 162

  Sencio, Speedy, 68, 69, 70

  Servo, Marty, 119, 120

  Sharkey, Jack, 126

  Shavers, Earnie, 217

  Shaw, George Bernard, 11, 48, 187

  Shaw, Irwin, 29-30; The Young Lions, 29

  Sheppard, Curtis, 82

  Shiel, Bishop, 168

  Shipes, Charley, 229

  Shugrue, Joe, 55

  Silverman, Sam, 101

  Simon, Abe, 73, 102

  Simpson, John, 109

  Singer, Al, 62

  Slavin, Frank, 74

  Smith, Bud, 95

  Smith, Red, 80, 83

  Smith, Tommie, 224

  Solomons, Jack, 109

  Soose, Billy, 73, 82, 83

  Spinks, Leon, 189, 203-206, 213-215, 219-221

  Sports Illustrated, 34, 71, 163, 241

  Sports writers. See Reporters.

  Stallone, Sylvester, 192

  Stebbins, Artie, 55

  Steele, Richard, 209

  Stillman’s gym, 64-70

  Stingley, Daryl, 163

  Streisand, Barbra, 217

  Sugar, Bert, 159

  Sullivan, John L., 42, 102, 135, 164, 242

  Tannas, Tom, 87

  Tate, John, 243

  Taylor, Bud, 62

  Taylor, Estelle, 47

  Television, 94-100, 165

  Tender Is the Night (Fitzgerald), 25

  Terris, Sid, 62

  Texas, 168

  This Side of Paradise (Fitzgerald), 25

  Thomas, Pinklon, 243

  Thompson, Hunter, 11

  Thompson, Jack, 129

  Tiger, Dick, 97

  Times of London, 40

  Tomatoes, Jimmy, 89

  Torres, José, 160, 161, 183, 184

  Trump, Don, 216

  Tschimpumpu Wa Tschimpumpu, 177, 178

  Tubbs, Tony, 243

  Tucker, Tony, 206

  Tunney, Gene, 20, 48, 140, 242

  Turcotte, Ron, 163

  Turpin, Randy, 95, 120

  Tyson, Mike, 202, 206, 216-218, 219-221, 238-240, 242, 244, 247

  “Undefeated, The” (Hemingway), 30

  Valdes, Nino, 91, 105

  Valle, Victor, 199, 203

  Vanneman, Vince, 69, 70

  Vejar, Chico, 97

  Viertel, Jigee, 28-29

  Viertel, Peter, 28

  Vitale, John, 136

  Walcott, Joe, 82, 87, 90, 140, 183, 222-223

  Walker, Mickey, 21, 73

  Walker Law, 165

  Wallace, Coley, 124

  Washington Post, 83

  Weaver, John V. A., 24

  Weaver, Mike, 199

  Weigh-ins, 86-89, 126, 154-155, 169, 220

  Weill, Al, 82, 105

  Welch, Joseph, 103

  Welling, Joe, 54, 56

  Wells, Bombardier, 106

  Welsh, Freddie, 54

  Welterweights, 193-195

  West, Nathanael, 25

  What Makes Sammy Run? (Schulberg), 17, 25, 72

  Wiener, Frank, 125, 129

  Williams, Holman, 82

  Williams, Ike, 124, 126

  Williams, Johnny, 106

  Willkie, Wendell, 52

  Withers, Bill, 179

  Witherspoon, Tim, 243

  Wonder, Stevie, 179

  Woodcock, Bruce, 106

  Young, Jimmy, 197, 227, 228

  Young, Paddy, 97, 126

  Young Abel, 32

  Young Dutch Sam, 131

  Young Lions, The, 29

  Zaire, 169-182

  Zivic, Fritzie, 110, 119, 129

  Zukor, Adolph, 60

  A Biography of Budd Schulberg

  Budd Schulberg (1914–2009) was a celebrated screenwriter, novelist, playwright, and journalist best remembered for his classic novel What Makes Sammy Run? (1941) and his Academy Award–winning screenplay for On the Waterfront. Schulberg was the first major American novelist to grow up in Hollywood, a town with which he had a complex and sometimes contentious relationship.

  Born Seymour Wilson Schulberg on March 27, 1914, in New York City, Schulberg and his family relocated to Los Angeles a few years later. His father, Ben “B. P.” Schulberg, became one of the most prominent movie producers in the 1920s and ’30s, so Schulberg grew up among movie stars and powerful studio executives. His mother, Adeline Jaffe, was a talent agent who later became one of the first female literary agents. Both of Schulberg’s parents valued authors and literature, and cultivated Schulberg’s literary ambitions throughout his childhood. More than acting, though, Schulberg revered boxing; his father introduced him to the sport and to some of the era’s champions. His fascination with boxing would influence much of his writing career, including his 1947 novel The Harder They Fall.

  Schulberg attended Dartmouth College and graduated in 1936. He then worked in Hollywood as a writer (collaborating with F. Scott Fitzgerald, among others) while working on his first novel, What Makes Sammy Run? Once it was published, the book set off shockwaves with its frank exposure of the dark side of Hollywood’s golden era. The novel angered real-life industry heads and damaged his own father’s career. Schulberg was fired from his scriptwriting job with Samuel Goldwyn and nearly blacklisted in the filmmaking business.

  Durin
g World War II, Schulberg worked for the OSS, the predecessor of the CIA. In 1945, director John Ford tasked him to help assemble film evidence of the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps to be used during the Nuremberg trials. This was the first time that film evidence was used in a trial to convict. He compiled footage shot by German filmmakers, including Leni Riefenstahl, who was arrested by Schulberg himself and brought to Nuremberg to help aid the prosecution.

  In 1951, Schulberg was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee to testify about his former involvement with the Communist Party. Though he had been a member of the party for six years, he had quit after a bitter disagreement with party members who wanted to vet his script for What Makes Sammy Run?. During his testimony, he identified several fellow Hollywood figures as Communists. The HUAC trials caused another rift between Schulberg and the film industry, with many feeling that his testimony betrayed friends and colleagues.

  Despite this setback, Schulberg soon had his greatest film success, with his screenplay for On the Waterfront, directed by Elia Kazan. The movie, about New Jersey longshoremen whose lives are controlled by the Mob, won eight Academy Awards and also evolved into a novel (1955) and a play (1988), both written by Schulberg. He soon reunited with Kazan, turning the title story from his collection Some Faces in the Crowd (1954) into a screenplay for the influential film A Face in the Crowd (1957), which launched the career of actor Andy Griffith.

  Throughout his career, Schulberg worked as a journalist and essayist, often writing about boxing, a lifelong passion. Many of his writings on the sport are collected in Sparring with Hemingway (1995) and Ringside (2006). Other highlights from Schulberg’s nonfiction career include Moving Pictures (1981), an account of his upbringing in Hollywood, and Writers in America (1973), a glimpse of some of the famous novelists he met early in his career.

  Schulberg married four times and had five children. He died at his home on Long Island in 2009.

  Schulberg’s parents, Adeline and B. P. Schulberg, hold an infant Budd in this early family portrait.

  Schulberg and his fourth wife, Betsy Schulberg, in Westhampton Beach, New York, in 2003. © 2003 Ken Regan

  Schulberg at work on his typewriter. At the top of this photo, he wrote the following note to his son: “For Benn, To a happy and productive life ahead! Love, Dad 8/14/2003.”

  Schulberg’s father, B. P. Schulberg.

  Origin: Culver Pictures Inc.

  Schulberg, B.P. (1892-1957), American film producer and executive

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  A portrait of Schulberg in 2003, with the following note to his son at the bottom: “For my dear son and best friend Benn with all my love, Dad 8/14/2003.”

  The Schulberg family in Westhampton, New York. From left to right: Jessica, Budd, Betsy, and Benn.

  From left to right: Schulberg, actress Geraldine Fitzgerald, Elia Kazan, and actress Myrna Loy.

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  A letter from Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis to Schulberg, praising Moving Pictures, dated September 19, 1981.

  Brothers Stuart Schulberg and Budd Schulberg (from left to right) on the set of Wind Across the Everglades, a film written by Budd and produced by Stuart, in 1958.

  Budd Schulberg with his second wife, Virginia Anderson, at the pool outside his eighteenth-century farmhouse, Inghamdale, near New Hope, Pennsylvania, with Schulberg’s children David, Steve, and Victoria. This photo was taken around 1949.

  Schulberg with fellow members of the U.S. military, taken during World War II.

  Schulberg with sons David and Steve.

  Schulberg with Geraldine Brooks and pet cat at their family house on Long Island in the mid-1970s.

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  Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following publications for permission to reprint articles they first published: Boxing Illustrated for “Foreman-Holyfield” and “The Mystery of the Heavyweight Mystique”; Esquire for “The Heavyweight Championship”; the New York Post for “Leonard-Duran,” “Ali-Holmes,” “The Welterweights,” “The Gerry Cooney Story,” “The Eight-Minute War,” “Sugar’s Sweet, Marvin’s Sour,” “Historic Night in the Ring,” “They Fall Harder When They’re Old,” and “Spink’s Magic Is Not Enough”; Newsday for “Sparring with Hemingway,” “In Defense of Boxing,” “Journey to Zaire,” “The Second Coming of George Foreman,” and “Tyson vs. Tyson”; Playboy for “The Death of Boxing?”; Ring for “The Great Benny Leonard”; Saturday Review for “The Chinese Boxes of Muhammad Ali”; Sports Illustrated for “Hollywood Hokum,” “No Room for the Groom,” “Marciano and England’s Cockell,” “A Champion Proves His Greatness,” “The Comeback,” and “Boxing’s Dirty Business Must Be Cleaned Up Now”; and TV Guide for “Where Have You Gone, Holly Mims?”

  copyright © 1995 by Budd Schulberg

  cover design by Oceana Garceau

  978-1-4532-6200-9

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