7/4/2023 0 Comments New all that nickelodeon timeBut he was a writer who needed recognition and money as much as booze, and if “Gatsby” had sold well it would likely have saved him from the lacerating public confessions of failure that he made in the nineteen-thirties, or, at least, would have kept him away from Hollywood. Fitzgerald was an alcoholic, and no doubt his health would have declined, whatever the commercial fate of his masterpiece. The tale of Fitzgerald’s woeful stumbles-no great writer ever hit the skids so publicly-is suffused with varying shades of irony, both forlorn and triumphal. Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan in Baz Luhrmann’s new movie.
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