Before he became the legendary director and screenwriter Billy Wilder, Billie Wilder was a scrappy and widely published journalist in Berlin and Vienna.

“Neither one of them were much good,” Welles concludes in his comparison of Cooper to Bogart. “But we’re in love with ’em.”

Budd Schulberg’s centennial.“My problem,” novelist and screenwriter Budd Schulberg told Kurt Vonnegut at the close of a 2001 interview published in these pages, “is that I’m not going to live long enough to do all the different things I want …