That was pretty fucking cool

Why do you love that dickhead line from that guy?

Most VCs want neither.

Badass reply. So yes.

@LAFOLLETTER that is true but at the end he was a sick man

@@Ferda1964 Yeah, WWI PTSD, nine concussions, two airplane crashes, and electro-shock therapy will do that to you.

Andy Rooney didn’t even think he was a good writer.

Hemingway was betrayed by the two women he loved most in his early years, terrorized by his viscous, toxic, cruel mother in his formative years. Survived two plane crashes, a terrible auto accident & numerous concussions. All his demons came from his beast of a mother, who happily drove her devoted husband to suicide without a care in the world. He suffered from PTSD from three different wars...it was a miracle he could pen a paragraph, let alone become the greatest, most influential writer of the 20th century. None of these people trying to bring him down, could have survived 1% of the trauma & turmoil he did in his lifetime!!!

@@kevinreily2529 That's quite a damning critique of his mother. I read that she was quite demanding of her son, but she also encouraged him in the arts. Hemingway's demons may very well have been genetic, who can say? His father killed himself with a shotgun in the 1920's, as did Ernest in 1961. Was your description of her corroborated by others?

so what

You got that right. One of the best on telling the story of the Vietnam War.

Yes, the KC Star.

@@steveconn presumably the kc RED star.

'Toronto Star'

@@tomryan914 Kipling wrote for the Northern Star.

i think he was waiting for the interviewer's next question. not unlike you waiting lo these 10 long years for your modest answer.

@@jameshudson169 Boooom

ya think?

Andy Rooney seemed jealous of Hemingway (i think), but who wouldn't be if they were writers as well?

Either way I’m glad I was around to witness these characters....ya gotta love life!

Rooney was jealous

No doubt that EH could be a supreme knucklehead. However, if that's your opinion of Hemingway's writing and you believe that ALL of his books were bad, I recommend that you read either A Farewell to Arms, or The Sun Also Rises, or Death in the Afternoon, or one of EH"s collections of short stories -- preferably with a more open mind than you appear to demonstrate in the comment above. I also saw the interview with Andy Rooney, and it's obvious to me that AR could be as big a jerk as EH.

@@rogerforsberg3910 His editor, Maxwell Perkins didn't think much of "Across the River and Into the Trees," saying, "Hemingway is through." E.B. White called it, "Across the Street and Into the Grill." Myself, I think his short stories are better than his novels. "Big Two Hearted River" is one of my favourite stories by anybody. "The Killers" is a great story and made a superb movie, too. It wasn't just Andy Rooney that didn't think much of him. Henry Fonda said in an interview in Playboy (as I recall) how he met him in Spain and said he was pathetic, a washed up drunk surrounded by ass-kissers. Howard Hawks met him and said he could make a hit movie out of his worst book, referring to "To Have and Have Not." He sure did, didn't he? But, "The Breaking Point" with John Garfield is closer to the story and I always thought Garfield was a perfect Hemingway hero.

You must not know much about his coverage of the Vietnam War. One of the best.

Maybe study the reason a little deeper.

Elitist dick heads complaining about proletariat dick heads, emptying Webster's Dictionary all over the place, and impressing us all, in the end, The Old Man and the Sea wins