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Fitzgerald Takes Hollywood

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Benjamin Button leads revival of interest in author.

F. Scott Fitzgerald was one of literature's keenest chroniclers of Hollywood. Can Hollywood now treat Fitzgerald with similar tact? Well, it's certainly trying. Variety notes a spate of interest in the famous author: David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is based on a Fitzgerald story; John Curran plans to direct a biopic, The Beautiful and the Damned, starring Keira Knightley as Fitzgerald's troubled wife Zelda; and Baz Luhrmann has announced plans to adapt The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald himself served a tour as a screenwriter, but considered himself a hack.

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