HEMINGWAY

[Nick Charles]

I've seen alot of Hemingway posts lateely and even started one my self, so here is another. Has anyone seen Hemingway starring Stacy KEach? I watched it recently and Thought it was good. would have liked to see more hunting and fishing scenes but hey it was made for TV. Any one else with an opinion? Hemingway Jones perhaps? OH yeah how about a pic of your fishing cap..

 

[Hemingway Jones]

Hello Nick!

I saw that so long ago, I kind of forget how it was! But I would love to see it on cable.

Hemingway's story really hasn't been done justice on film. I would love to see someone do something serious. I know that James Gandolfini is interested in the part. I will reserve judgement.

My Hemingway cap! Yes, I'll have to post a picture with that. I'll have to pull out my Guayabera!

 

[John in Covina]

Palin traces Hemingway travels on PBS

On PBS there was a Michael Palin (Monty Python) travel log show where they traced the travels of Hemingway. Unfortunately I only got to see bits and pieces. There is a funny bit where Palin goes to a bar in Cuba (Sloppy Joe's? maybe?) and they make him a dacquiri the way Poppa drank them, it is Palin at his best.

Here's the web site: http://www.pbs.org/hemingwayadventure/

Sincerely,:beer:

 

[John in Covina]

PBS American Masters Hemingway Program

Please go here:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/hemingway_e.html

 

[Hemingway Jones]

There is a funny bit where Palin goes to a bar in Cuba (Sloppy Joe's? maybe?) and they make him a dacquiri the way Poppa drank them, it is Palin at his best.

Sincerely,:beer:

"Sloppy Joe's" is in Key West. La Floridita is the bar in Cuba, I believe, but I know the scene.

Funny stuff, but Palin was all wrong as a person walking in Hem's sizable shoes.

 

[jake_fink]

Palin's Hemingway Adventure...

Watching Michael Plain go on holidays again is not very exciting. He sits up in his very very expensive hotel room looking down on the bull run in Pamplona. Say no more, wink wink.

Oh what the heck, I will say more. I'd rather see him running for his life. THAT'S entertainment. :kick:

Hemingway's work and Hemingway himself have made it to film so many times you'd think there'd be some really memorable piece that leaps to mind, but nothing really captures his work or his legend. Gary Cooper was in two not entirely awful films based on Hemingway's work. Keach made an interesting Hemingway, but I don't recall the film being more than adequate. My favourite Hemingway related film is Islands in the Stream. An underrated film with a great performance at the centre by George C Scott. I like it even more than I like the book, which was one of many posthumasly published works. There was an almost entirely dreadful telvision film made for the CBC here in Canada about the friendship between Canadian writer Morley Callaghan and Ernest Hemingway. It was based loosely on Callaghan's That Summer in Paris, and was set in Toronto and Paris, though Paris looked an awful lot like Toronto but with street performers (because Paris is a perpetual parade of street performers, don't you know). If you're interested in Hemingway check out the Callaghan book, and the chapter dedicated to the fight Hemingway lost (and to F Scott Fitzgerald) in A Movebale Feast.

http://www.cbc.ca/television/behindthescenes_hemingway.html

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/13772

You'd think his work and life would lend themselves to better movies... strange.

 

[Hemingway Jones]

I agree, Jake. Especially those films about him and not inspired by his books. "In Love and War," are you kidding me?

Now "To Have and Have Not" is a classic. Who cares if it screens like a "Casablanca" rip off.

I also liked "Islands in the Stream." That is an obscure picture, though.

 

[geo]

I read an interesting story in an old issue of "Cigar Aficionado" about Gregorio Fuentes, the Cuban who inspired Hemingway to write "The Old Man and the Sea". Here's the article:

http://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar/CA_Archives/CA_Show_Article/0,2322,562,00.html

 

[Burma Shave]

John in Covina:

Michael Palin actually wrote a book called "Hemingway's Chair." It's a novel about a guy who worships Hemingway, stocks his bar only with the ingredients to make drinks Hemingway famously partook of, eventually dresses like him, and is trying to buy the fishing chair from Pilar, Hemingway's fishing boat.

It's not a great novel, but it's not horrendous. Check it out if you get a chance. I don't know if Palin did the research for the book and for the "in Hem's footsteps" show at the same time, but he certainly seems to know his stuff, trivia-wise, if the novel is any indication.

Oh, and I recently purchased a book called, creatively enough, "Ernest Hemingway: as remembered by Norberto Fuentes." It's a photo book, with lots of stuff I'd never seen before -- and I've seen most of the Hemingway stuff out there. Good material.

 

[scotrace]

I read an interesting story in an old issue of "Cigar Aficionado" about Gregorio Fuentes, the Cuban who inspired Hemingway to write "The Old Man and the Sea". Here's the article:

http://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar/CA_Archives/CA_Show_Article/0,2322,562,00.html

Thanks - and I'm very curious - what's the Churchillian gewgaw in your av?

 

[geo]

It's a miniature from "King and Country". See my "Toys" thread in "The Display Case".