About Time Someone Wrote This

But then, I much preferred Rodgers with him than with Hammerstein:

Gary Marmorstein's LORENZ HART: AN AMERICAN LIFE, a biography of the tortured, brilliant lyricist (called "the Poet Laureate of America" by F. Scott Fitzgerald) who composed (with Richard Rodgers) such classics as "My Funny Valentine" and "Blue Moon", to Bob Bender at Simon & Schuster, in a good deal, in a pre-empt, by Dan Conaway at Writers House (NA).

Though I am curious to see if Marmorstein's take will supercede that of Frederick Nolan's from a decade or so ago.

Comments

[Rosemary Harris]

...well sure you do (prefer the Hart to the Hammerstein.) On one hand you "a real nice clambake, we're mighty glad we came" and other "beans could get no keener reception in a beanery." Pretty clever.

[Frederick Nolan]

If you think you're curious to see whether Mr. Marmorstein's biograph will "supercede" mine, you can imagine how I'm feeling!