Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
The new “hot” war novel 2034 co-authored by Admiral James Stavridis (USN, Ret.) and Elliot Ackerman (US combat veteran) depicts a future war between the US and China.
2034, the movie, cannot be far behind or perhaps the rights to convert the novel into film has already been transacted between the two august military veterans and Hollywood agents. My bet is that this will be cameo filled movie with all the big-name stars of the day, sort of like The Longest Day, a movie depicting the D-Day invasion during WWII.
A similar themed World War III novel was written by Sir John Hackett in 1985 during the height of first Cold War pitting the United States against the former Soviet Union. There are scores of novels on the subject, many of which can be found here at Goodreads. What is the point of these tomes? What are the Las Vegas gambling odds on WWIII taking place? There are, indeed, gambling sites like Sportsbettingdime.com and @Everythin
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Walter Bernstein
Late in the summer of 2019, screenwriter Walter Bernstein, probably best known for his work with Martin Ritt on
Paris Blues (1961) and
The Front (1976) and with Sidney Lumet on
Fail Safe (1964), turned one hundred. To mark the occasion, his good friend of thirty years, novelist Walter Mosley, interviewed him for Literary Hub. “In all my adult life,” wrote Mosley, “I have never met a more intelligent, loving, sensitive, questioning, heroic man.”
Bernstein, who passed away over the weekend at the age of 101, grew up in Brooklyn among left-leaning Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. Early on, as a teen during the Depression, he developed a sense that “the system was out of whack,” as he told Camera in the Sun editor Christian Niedan in 2013. “There was something wrong there that was
Screenwriter and blacklist victim Walter Bernstein dies at 101
Bernstein worked on the screenplays for dozens of films, including
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948, with Burt Lancaster and Joan Fontaine),
That Kind of Woman (1959, with Sophia Loren),
The Wonderful Country (1959, with Robert Mitchum),
A Breath of Scandal (1960),
The Magnificent Seven (1960),
Miss Evers’ Boys (1997, about the infamous “Tuskegee Study”).
Screenwriter/producer Walter Bernstein (right) following a June 7, 2016 screening and Q&A of the 1976 film
The Front, whose screenplay Bernstein wrote, at the SVA Theater in Manhattan. (Luigi Novi /Wikimedia Commons)
During the period in which he was targeted by the anti-communist witch hunt, Bernstein wrote uncredited for various television programs, including