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Filming F. Scott Fitzgerald The ungraspable dream of bringing writer's world to the silver screen

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From: International Herald Tribune
Date: 20050826
Author:Steve Chagollan

Steve Chagollan
International Herald Tribune
08-26-2005
'It's one of those fantasies, I think, that Fitzgerald is a glamorous and romantic figure,'' said the author and film historian David Thomson, speaking of the Jazz Age legend F. Scott Fitzgerald. ''Not that I think in real life he was, but his life has come down to us that way. And Hollywood therefore feels that he ought to be graspable.''Like an unrequited love, the surprisingly ungraspable dream of translating Fitzgerald's doomed romanticism to the big screen has gotten under moviedom's skin yet again. In the last year, 20th Century ...

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