EppsNet: Notes from the Golden Orange » Nelson Algren http://eppsnet.com Online journal based in Orange County, CA. Hilarious anecdotes tempered by the icy chill of certain death. Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:59:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en Nelson Algren Goes to Hollywood http://eppsnet.com/2006/09/nelson-algren-goes-to-hollywood http://eppsnet.com/2006/09/nelson-algren-goes-to-hollywood#comments Sun, 24 Sep 2006 02:12:00 +0000 PE http://eppsnet.com/2006/09/nelson-algren-goes-to-hollywood From a 1955 interview with Nelson Algren in The Paris Review:

INTERVIEWER: How about this movie, The Man with the Golden Arm?

ALGREN: Yeah.

INTERVIEWER: Did you have anything to do with the script?

ALGREN: No. No, I didn’t last long. I went out there for a thousand a week. and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday.

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