np: hemingway again

jd wescac at gmail.com
Thu Aug 10 23:35:09 CDT 2006


So I'm watching the Biography bit on Hemingway (it's available through
netflix) and it mentions the suitcase that Hadley lost...  I seem to
remember someone mentioning that some of his writings had been found
at some point, I could be wrong...  but Biography (for non-US
residents, it's some kind of show that tells, well, a biography of
famous-type people, I forget which channel it's shown on though) says
that the suitcase and all of his writing up til that point was
"forever lost".  Was this suitcase ever found?  I don't know what year
this film was made, possibly it was, after this film was made...
curious if anyone knows.

I've known about his early life before this, but I'll say again if I
haven't said it here before... interesting that the man who has become
known through history to be the epitome of masculinity was originally
dressed as a girl, was poor at sports, and came back from being a
medic from WW I pretending to be a war hero granted a medal from, I
think he said, the King of Spain?  The truth of the childhood behind
the man who had a thing for older women, overcome by the legacy
created by his own words...  I'm sure Freud, among others, would have
a thing or two to say about that.

Anyways the grand-daughter (born four months after his suicide) that
narrates the bit is sort of hot albeit very stiff, wonder if she was
handed a script or came up with it herself.



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