Sparring With Hemingway: And Other Legends of the Fight Game (33 page)

Schmeling, Max,
34
,
49-52
,
85
,
126
,
191

Schulberg, B. P.,
24

Schulberg, Budd:
The Disenchanted
,
23-26
;
The Harder They Fall
,
17
,
33
,
71-74
,
141
,
185
,
204
;
On the Waterfront
,
27
;
What Makes Sammy Run?
,
17
,
23
,
72

Schulberg, Stuart,
140

Schwartz, Hank,
99

Scott, Phil,
106

Scypion, Wilford,
162

Sencio, Speedy,
68
,
69
,
70

Servo, Marty,
119
,
120

Sharkey, Jack,
126

Shavers, Earnie,
217

Shaw, George Bernard,
11
,
48
,
187

Shaw, Irwin,
29-30
;
The Young Lions
,
29

Sheppard, Curtis,
82

Shiel, Bishop,
168

Shipes, Charley,
229

Shugrue, Joe,
55

Silverman, Sam,
101

Simon, Abe,
73
,
102

Simpson, John,
109

Singer, Al,
62

Slavin, Frank,
74

Smith, Bud,
95

Smith, Red,
80
,
83

Smith, Tommie,
224

Solomons, Jack,
109

Soose, Billy,
73
,
82
,
83

Spinks, Leon,
189
,
203-206
,
213-215
,
219-221

Sports Illustrated
,
34
,
71
,
163
,
241

Sports writers. See Reporters.

Stallone, Sylvester,
192

Stebbins, Artie,
55

Steele, Richard,
209

Stillman’s gym,
64-70

Stingley, Daryl,
163

Streisand, Barbra,
217

Sugar, Bert,
159

Sullivan, John L.,
42
,
102
,
135
,
164
,
242

Tannas, Tom,
87

Tate, John,
243

Taylor, Bud,
62

Taylor, Estelle,
47

Television,
94-100
,
165

Tender Is the Night
(Fitzgerald),
25

Terris, Sid,
62

Texas,
168

This Side of Paradise
(Fitzgerald),
25

Thomas, Pinklon,
243

Thompson, Hunter,
11

Thompson, Jack,
129

Tiger, Dick,
97

Times
of London,
40

Tomatoes, Jimmy,
89

Torres, José,
160
,
161
,
183
,
184

Trump, Don,
216

Tschimpumpu Wa Tschimpumpu,
177
,
178

Tubbs, Tony,
243

Tucker, Tony,
206

Tunney, Gene,
20
,
48
,
140
,
242

Turcotte, Ron,
163

Turpin, Randy,
95
,
120

Tyson, Mike,
202
,
206
,
216-218
,
219-221
,
238-240
,
242
,
244
,
247

“Undefeated, The” (Hemingway),
30

Valdes, Nino,
91
,
105

Valle, Victor,
199
,
203

Vanneman, Vince,
69
,
70

Vejar, Chico,
97

Viertel, Jigee,
28-29

Viertel, Peter,
28

Vitale, John,
136

Walcott, Joe,
82
,
87
,
90
,
140
,
183
,
222-223

Walker, Mickey,
21
,
73

Walker Law,
165

Wallace, Coley,
124

Washington Post
,
83

Weaver, John V. A.,
24

Weaver, Mike,
199

Weigh-ins,
86-89
,
126
,
154-155
,
169
,
220

Weill, Al,
82
,
105

Welch, Joseph,
103

Welling, Joe,
54
,
56

Wells, Bombardier,
106

Welsh, Freddie,
54

Welterweights,
193-195

West, Nathanael,
25

What Makes Sammy Run?
(Schulberg),
17
,
25
,
72

Wiener, Frank,
125
,
129

Williams, Holman,
82

Williams, Ike,
124
,
126

Williams, Johnny,
106

Willkie, Wendell,
52

Withers, Bill,
179

Witherspoon, Tim,
243

Wonder, Stevie,
179

Woodcock, Bruce,
106

Young, Jimmy,
197
,
227
,
228

Young, Paddy,
97
,
126

Young Abel,
32

Young Dutch Sam,
131

Young Lions, The
,
29

Zaire,
169-182

Zivic, Fritzie,
110
,
119
,
129

Zukor, Adolph,
60

Budd Schulberg (1914–2009) was a celebrated screenwriter, novelist, playwright, and journalist best remembered for his classic novel
What Makes Sammy Run?
(1941) and his Academy Award–winning screenplay for
On the Waterfront
. Schulberg was the first major American novelist to grow up in Hollywood, a town with which he had a complex and sometimes contentious relationship.

Born Seymour Wilson Schulberg on March 27, 1914, in New York City, Schulberg and his family relocated to Los Angeles a few years later. His father, Ben “B. P.” Schulberg, became one of the most prominent movie producers in the 1920s and ’30s, so Schulberg grew up among movie stars and powerful studio executives. His mother, Adeline Jaffe, was a talent agent who later became one of the first female literary agents. Both of Schulberg’s parents valued authors and literature, and cultivated Schulberg’s literary ambitions throughout his childhood. More than acting, though, Schulberg revered boxing; his father introduced him to the sport and to some of the era’s champions. His fascination with boxing would influence much of his writing career, including his 1947 novel
The Harder They Fall.

Schulberg attended Dartmouth College and graduated in 1936. He then worked in Hollywood as a writer (collaborating with F. Scott Fitzgerald, among others) while working on his first novel,
What Makes Sammy Run?
Once it was published, the book set off shockwaves with its frank exposure of the dark side of Hollywood’s golden era. The novel angered real-life industry heads and damaged his own father’s career. Schulberg was fired from his scriptwriting job with Samuel Goldwyn and nearly blacklisted in the filmmaking business.

During World War II, Schulberg worked for the OSS, the predecessor of the CIA. In 1945, director John Ford tasked him to help assemble film evidence of the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps to be used during the Nuremberg trials. This was the first time that film evidence was used in a trial to convict. He compiled footage shot by German filmmakers, including Leni Riefenstahl, who was arrested by Schulberg himself and brought to Nuremberg to help aid the prosecution.

In 1951, Schulberg was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee to testify about his former involvement with the Communist Party. Though he had been a member of the party for six years, he had quit after a bitter disagreement with party members who wanted to vet his script for
What Makes Sammy Run?
. During his testimony, he identified several fellow Hollywood figures as Communists. The HUAC trials caused another rift between Schulberg and the film industry, with many feeling that his testimony betrayed friends and colleagues.

Despite this setback, Schulberg soon had his greatest film success, with his screenplay for
On the Waterfront
, directed by Elia Kazan. The movie, about New Jersey longshoremen whose lives are controlled by the Mob, won eight Academy Awards and also evolved into a novel (1955) and a play (1988), both written by Schulberg. He soon reunited with Kazan, turning the title story from his collection
Some Faces in the Crowd
(1954) into a screenplay for the influential film
A Face in the Crowd
(1957), which launched the career of actor Andy Griffith.

Throughout his career, Schulberg worked as a journalist and essayist, often writing about boxing, a lifelong passion. Many of his writings on the sport are collected in
Sparring with Hemingway
(1995) and
Ringside
(2006). Other highlights from Schulberg’s nonfiction career include
Moving Pictures
(1981), an account of his upbringing in Hollywood, and
Writers in America
(1973), a glimpse of some of the famous novelists he met early in his career.

Schulberg married four times and had five children. He died at his home on Long Island in 2009.