Andy Rooney on Ernest Hemingway - EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG

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[TR3790]

You'd ever notice how some nobody always tries to diss a somebody? People still know who Hemingway was. 50 years from now - in 2061- they still will. No one will remember who Andy Rooney was in two years.

[sw1pe]

Hopefully they're in heaven together, where Hemingway is no doubt punching Andy Rooney.

[mavarek666]

@quintas73 All men and woman are jerks. As all men and woman are pricks, assholes and dicks. We are these things because life is hard and tumble. In order to survive life, you must have a stout heart and a way of thinking that is beautiful. Life is the greatest pleasure and heaviest pain. We are all born into this and we discover at birth that all hopes and dreams are distant. That whatever pure happy life you should know is doomed from the start.

[quintas73]

Oh please, it was an amusing story. Hemingways' best stuff is great, but Rooney is right, Hemingway also wrote some really bad stuff. And he was a jerk. He comes across as a jerk in his own memoirs, 'A moveable feast'. He was a jerk to Hadley, He was a jerk to Fitzgerald. He was a jerk who happened to write 3 or 4 great novels and alot of good short stories.

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[ultramega67]

Andy Rooney hated everyone.Who cares what he thought.Good riddance to bad rubbish.

[BigJohnWoody]

It's funny that the top two comments represent extremes of opinion. Why can't Rooney be right, in a way, and Hemingway also be great? By most accounts, Hemingway was an immense jerk. Some of his writing did stink. Lousy anecdotes like this one are the fruits of a life spent pissing people off.

Also, Rooney has been culturally important (although, hardly to the degree that Hemingway was), so there's no need to speak about him in such harsh terms, either.

[mikeduplantier]

This is hilarious!

[MrFilmphile]

I'm a Hemingway fan, and from what I've read, yeah it's true. I mean after For Whom The Bell tolls, it is mostly awful (Old Man and The Sea is almost taken word for word, from an interview he did). He became a parody of himself after the '30s.

[lipby]

I love this!

[Pontusky]

RIP Andy Rooney.