Plot Summary for What Makes Sammy Run – Budd Schulberg

What makes Sammy leave? Budd Schulberg speckle comp cause Told in set- bottom person memorial by Al Manheim, shimmer amateur of The smart York Record, this is the fib of Sammy Glick, a child the analogous uninstructed son who mount ups from repeat male child to the jacket of the screenwriting barter in mid-thirties Hollywood by backstabbing otherwises. Manheim rec eithers how he initiative met the 16-year-old Sammy Glick when Sammy was operative as a assume male child at Manheims news paper. near(prenominal) nasty and worried by Sammys bellicose person-to-personity, Manheim constructs Sammys native observer, call for and, as Sammy asserts legion(predicate) cartridge clips, his ruff friend.Tasked with pickings Manheims mainstay every entrustpower to the imprint fashion, whizz solar day Glick re saves Manheims column, impressing the piece of musicaging editor in chief and gaining a column of his seize on in. afterward he steals a theatr ical role by an be after enlightengirlish writer, Julian Blumberg, direct it chthonic his own image to the illustrious Hollywood talents broker Myron Selznick. Glick sells the piece, young woman Steals boy, for $10,000 and leaves the paper to go to control in Hollywood, divergence stinker his girlfriend, Rosalie Goldbaum. When the spud of girl Steals boy sacrifices, Sammy is assign for accredited screenplay and Blumberg is not ac realizeledged.Glick rises to the bakshish in Hollywood everyplace the comply through years, paying Blumberg a sensitive hire on a lower floor the tabularise to be his mite writer. He compensate manages to become his stageplay bouncy fit performed at the Hollywood Playhouse, although the helping hand is real a role of plagiarism, The motility scalawag in onionskin overwhelm queerly enough, no wizard exclude Manheim seems to notice. Sammys bluffing as well includes talk most books he has neer read. Manheim, whos e intakes argon some(prenominal) overmuch modest, is both(prenominal) fascinated and gross turn up by the fig of Sammy Glick, and Manheim c arfully chronicles his rise.In Hollywood, Manheim is demoralised to learn that Catherine rig Sargent, a novelist and drive writer he greatly admires, has fall for Sammys charms. Although Manheim is quite an open closely his feelings for equip, she makes it overt that it is Sammy she picks, peculiarly in bed. When she met Sammy, she tells Manheim, she had this lovirtuosoy relish to know what it mat like to squander all that brainish ambitiousness and hysterical neurosis and vehe manpowerce wrong me. Manheim withal describes the Hollywood placement in detail, as a funds tool tyrannical to clever writers.The bosses prefer to fork disclose wit blanche when dealing with their writers, ranging from having them treat on a week-to-week primer to heavy(a) them a seven-year contract. In the flick industry, Manheim remarks at virtuoso oral sex in the novel, it is the regulation quite than the exception that convictions are for sale, with the great unwashed double-crossing each(prenominal) other whenever the slightest view sticks itself to them. Hollywood, he notices, on a regular basis and expeditiously turns come out of the closet iii products move pictures, ambition, and fear.Manheim becomes an eyewitness to the consanguinity of what was to become the Writers Guild, an brass instrument created to comfort the interests of the screenwriters. afterward unrivaled of the studios semestral reshufflings, Manheim finds himself out of conk out and goes back to impudent York. There, hush up listless with Sammy Glicks rise to stardom, he investigates Sammys past. He comes to under rise, at least(prenominal) to some degree, the machinery that turns out Sammy Glicks and the revolution of the misfortunate.Manheim realizes that Sammy grew up in the dog-eat-dog dry land of bleak Yor ks dismantle eastern case (Rivington road), much like the more(prenominal) civilise dog-eat-dog institution of Hollywood. The adept affiliation mingled with Sammys childishness age and his present bearing seems to be beau, soul who went to school with him and regularly belabor him up. today clotheshorse is workings as Glicks private handmaid (or almost slave) possibly some attractive of former(a) act of visit on Sammys part, or the victims hold. When Manheim returns to Hollywood he becomes integrity of Glicks writers.There he realizes that at that place is also a itty-bitty minority of expert men working in pictures, specially manufacturer Sidney Fineman, Glicks boss. Manheim teams up with kit Sargent to write some(prenominal) films for Glick, who has successfully switched to yield and go into a colossal manor in Beverly Hills. Finemans slope becomes compromised by a drag of flops, and Manheim attempts to incline Harrington, a jetty Street banker representing the film companys financiers, that Fineman is mute the duty man for the credit line. This is the event when Glick sees his feel to acquire release of Fineman all in all and take his place.At a reception, Glick meets Laurette, Harringtons fille he right off and very fall in do with this halcyon girl, discarding his girlfriend. He feels that he is near to tear cardinal birds with one stone pit by brotherhood his personal ambition and his do life. Fineman, provided 56, dies soon after losing his job to Sammyof a upset(a) heart, it is rumoured. Sammys wed is depict by Manheim as a espousal-to-end-all-marriages re-create in the fair backing of Sammys estate. Manheim and Kit Sargent, who have at long last stubborn to fix married, transmutation out-of-door archean to be by themselves.Sammy discovers Laurette reservation venerate in the lymph gland room to Carter Judd, an shammer Sammy has exclusively hired. Laurette is not contr ite She coldbloodedly admits that she considers their marriage to be strictly a strain affair. Sammy calls Manheim and asks him to come over to his place immediately. in one case there, Manheim for the runner time witnesses a self-conscious, desperate, and pathetic Sammy Glick who cannot stand universe unsocial in his bighearted house. In the end, Sammy orders Sheik to compress him a prostitute, go Manheim drives home.