Source: Freeman’s Perspective
by Paul Rosenberg
“I was introduced to Ben Hecht, many years ago now, by my friend Paul Greenfield. Like most people of my generation I had never heard of him. He had been fairly famous some decades earlier, know early for his cynical and cutting criticisms, then as Hollywood’s premier script doctor. Here’s a typical Hecht aside: ‘Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.'” (08/27/24)