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Huxley in Hollywood.
From: The Economist (US)
Date: 19900203
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HUXLEY IN HOLLYWOOD
WHEN Aldous Huxley set sail for America in 1937, his best work--"Antic Hay", "Brave New World", "Eyeless in Gaza"--was behind him. For the last 26 years of his life he dissipated his talent on unworthy and sometimes foolish work in Hollywood, while channeling his remaining energies into the pursuit of eccentric philosophies and drug-induced visions.
Huxley's contribution to Hollywood was disappointingly sparse. He was co-credited with adaptations of "Prde and Prejudice" and "Jane Eyre"; he turned his own story "The Gioconda Smile" into a screen-play ...
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