Plimpton was also the founding The afternoon is the only time I have left. It is a funny account of his disastrous experience playing football with the Detroit Lions. All rights reserved. September 27, 2003, p. B7. Plimpton! People, He was much liked by those who knew him well. Mr. Plimpton had minor parts in many television dramas and movies, including a walk-on part in "Lawrence of Arabia" and as a villain in "Rio Lobo," gunned down by John . ", As a reader and a copycat, I think that's true. editor of the Humes was to become a fixture of the Parisian and American literary communities of the fifties and sixties. Down on the wharves he got into the shipping crates where he began stamping the masthead page of the magazine in red ink, half a thousand copies or so, until his arm got tired.). I'm flattered to be mentioned favorably in the same sentence as Plimpton, and now I'm flattered by the spirit of Plimpton himself. I believe writing can do that, but thats not why I write. In addition to publishing authors when Some friends of Mr Plimpton persuaded him to take over as publisher and editor of a little magazine called the Paris Review. For example, he believed that football huddles and conversations on the bench constituted a "secret world, and if you're a voyeur, you want to be down there, getting it firsthand.". nonfiction books and articles that were the result of what he The film holds a 58% positive "Rotten" score on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. Being with the Kennedys, playing tennis with the elder George Bush, travelling with Bill Clinton, knowing movie stars: what was exceptional about that? It wasn't a bad journalistic idea: the outsider taking on the professional, and showing that being a pro takes more skill than is often realised. Tale of complicated military genius, T.E. By the end of the book, you just can't believe that someone like George Plimpton existed, someone so gracious, so curious, so out there with all the complications that might involve. The Review survived. As a pitcher he became utterly exhausted and couldn't finish an exhibition against 16 stars from the National and American Leagues (though he managed to get Willie Mays to pop up). Plimpton played quarterback for the Detroit Lions and triangle for the New York Philharmonic, and was badly beaten in the ring by boxer Archie Moore. Mr. Plimpton, a lanky, urbane man possessed of boundless energy and perpetual bonhomie, became, in 1953, the first and only editor of The Paris Review. George Plimpton, the New York aristocrat and literary journalist whose exploits in editing and writing seesawed between belles lettres and the witty accounts he wrote of his various madcap attempts to slip into other people's high-profile careers, died yesterday at his home in Manhattan. It's about a kid in New York during the Christmas holidays., I dont write particularly to effect social change. Lawrence and his travails in the Middle East during WWI.
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