What The #?*!

Sydney Morning Herald

Friday December 2, 2005

Sacha Molitorisz

Not-so-Great GatsbyWritten by Francis Ford Coppola, the 1974 adaptation of The Great Gatsby was supposed to be an unqualified triumph. Instead, screenwriter William Goldman calls it "one of the most overhyped disasters of the '70s". Goldman says director Jack Clayton, like most Brits, is obsessed by class, and thus decided that Gatsby's parties were "shabby and tacky, given by a man of no elevation and taste.

There went the ball game."

© 2005 Sydney Morning Herald

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