Mariel Hemingway says that despite her grandfather's reputation as a drinker, Ernest Hemingway never wrote while under the influence of alcohol.
Ernest Hemingway won the Nobel
Prize in Literature for his novel 'The Old Man and the Sea' Photo: AP
“That’s not how he wrote,” the 51-year-old Manhattan actress says of The
Old Man and the Sea author. “He never wrote drunk, he never wrote beyond
early, early morning.”
She says he is often used to glamourise addiction. “So many writers glorify
my grandfather’s way of living as much as they glorify his work. And so they try
and mirror that,” she tells Interview Magazine. “I
think it’s the misperception of addiction and living life on the edge, as if
it’s cool.”
Last year’s man
At an Edinburgh Fringe performance of The Confessions of Gordon Brown,
Nick Brown, the former agriculture minister, dominated the front row with his
girth – and mirth. Sadly, the theme of the piece, of being yesterday’s man,
applied to him more than the subject of the play.
During the play, Ian Grieve, as the hapless former prime minister, lays into
the buffoonery of the Blair era cabinet – and defies the audience to name the
then defence secretary.
A poignant silence in the auditorium ensued. “Geoff Hoon,” muttered Nick Brown, finally, with hardly anybody aware of his own identity. “You are an important man, and here is your badge of honour,” said Grieve, handing over a button, not knowing of the recipient either.
A poignant silence in the auditorium ensued. “Geoff Hoon,” muttered Nick Brown, finally, with hardly anybody aware of his own identity. “You are an important man, and here is your badge of honour,” said Grieve, handing over a button, not knowing of the recipient either.
