Selling My Books on the Streets of Brooklyn 8/22 - Quintessential

Last night ThisTV, 111 on Cablevision in NYC, ran The Taking of Pelham 123 (1974), an absurd thriller that remains great fun. The late Robert Shaw leads a group of four that hijacks a subway train. When facing capture, he commits suicide by placing his foot against the third rail, while Walter Matthau looks on in horror. I got to wondering how many movies Shaw had died in. Of course, most memorably was he dispatched in Jaws (1975),  also in The Deep (1977), as the lead in Custer of the West (1967), as King Claudius in a 1964 production of Hamlet, and as the cold-blooded assassin in From Russia with Love (1963) at the hands of Sean Connery's James Bond. There were a few other films I'm pretty sure his character did not survive. He succumbed to a heart attack in 1978 at the age of 51, having amassed 56 acting credits. In researching his work at IMDb, I was astonished to find he was an accomplished writer. His successful novel, The Hiding Place, sold about 25,000 copies and was adapted twice, for TV on Playhouse 90, on film as Situation Hopeless...But Not Serious (1965). His work on The Man in the Glass Booth (1975), originally a play, was uncredited at the time. The European Eye was produced for TV in 1968, and Figures in a Landscape for the big screen in 1969. He also covered the Rome Olympics as a reporter in 1960. There is not a lot of information at Amazon on the his other novels: The Sun Doctor (1974), A Card from Morocco (1969) and Cato Street (1972), which I assume are out of print. Belated kudos, sir. Here is a telling quote attributed to him:  "Writing is where the real center of my integrity lies. I never write for money. I only act for money, but not invariably of course. I would never write certain sentences that I say in films, or even that I write in films, because I often fix up my lines." Here he is as Quint:

These days my mindset rotates between the following thoughts: "Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours." - Orison Swett Marden. "Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result." - Einstein.

My thanks to the kind folks who bought and donated books today.
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Vic's 2nd Novel: http://tinyurl.com/6b86st6
Vic's 1st Novel: http://tiny.cc/94t5h
Vic's Horror Screenplay on Kindle: http://tinyurl.com/cyckn3
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