THE NYACK STORY: AT HOME WITH BEN HECHT
Screenwriter, playwright, newspaperman, novelist, Israel supporter, memoirist, anecdotalist Ben Hecht wrote literally billions of words in his lifetime. Famous as Hollywood's most prolific screenwriter, he and his frequent collaborator Charles MacArthur also wrote one of Broadway's enduring classic plays, "The Front Page" which has been made into a movie at least four times by my count. If you're reading this particular blog I probably don't need to give you "The Ben Hecht Story". (If you really need it, click here ). Instead, let's focus on--guess what?--"The Nyack Story." For Nyack is where Ben Hecht's home of many years was located. Hecht and MacArthur 'discovered' Nyack, New York--then a sleepy village on the Hudson not so very far from the hubbub of Times Square--in the late 1920's. In Hecht's brutally long autobiography "A Child Of The Century", he discusses how they landed in Nyack. "Lo...