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page on Eydie Gorme: Thanks Quis. But I still am not sure how I would deal with the "Gorme-Garme" question. If the census record were in script which I'm pretty sure it is, it's easy to mistake an "o" for an "a". And Eydie definitely used "Gorme" and not "Garme" (with or without accents!). Add to that, no one in my family ever saw that spelling and apparently the website didn't either.

It's not primarily a question of Wikipedia style, and I can always consult this page to get help with it, but a matter of where and how to put in the information. I definitely don't want to get into the related question of Eydie's actual age. Women, as well as men, may shave years off their actual age especially if they are in the entertainment field.

As for Robert Schumann, the question of his real or imagined middle name has been quite adequately dealt with and I have no further arguments with the article as it now appears. Ed (talk) 19:17, 29 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Schumann[edit]

I am a little concerned about the page on Robert Schumann the composer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Schumann

Although his full name is given, as usual, as Robert Alexander Schumann, apparently he wasn't baptized with any middle name and the "Alexander" would seem to be an invention of his first biographer. See for example, the book by Eric Frederick Jensen; Oxford University Press, 2001.

I don't want to change this unilaterally but it needs to be investigated.

Tom Tryon[edit]

Thank you for your contributions to the Tom Tryon article. I was always a big fan of his, more so as a writer than actor as I’m an amateur writer. (However, I most certainly do think he was brilliant in The Cardinal.) I’m impressed that you knew him personally. I could ask you dozens of questions, but I wouldn’t intrude upon your time like that. I just wanted to ask one.

Did you have an impression as to whether Mr. Tryon had been more proud of his acting or writing career? One huge advantage celebrities have in turning to writing is that they can be assured of at least getting a serious read of their work and it doesn’t hurt sales either, a consideration I’m sure publishers are acutely aware of. If I had written The Other verbatim, I doubt it ever would have been given a serious read, let alone published. Anyway, I’m glad Mr. Tryon did have this entrée as I appreciated his novels very much, especially Harvest Home.

Thanks again.HistoryBuff14 (talk) 18:42, 22 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It's hard at this late date to remember details about Tom. I knew him from the West Side Y where I am still a member. But I definitely got the impression that he was prouder of his writing career than his acting career. I did once twit him about one of his movie's titles "Screaming Eagles" to which he responded in kind showing that he did have a sense of humor about it. The "Cardinal" was a humiliating experience for him when Otto Preminger deliberately fired him in front of his parents and then later hired him back but I read this rather than having had any first-hand knowledge of it.

I was no intimate (in any way) of Tom's but he did send regards through another Y member after he moved to California. Ed (talk) 12:40, 24 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

—Thanks so much for your reply and time, sir. I’m glad to hear your response. Mr. Tyron was not just another celebrity (like David Niven, Margaret Truman, Elliot Roosevelt or William F. Buckley) who wrote novels trading on their illustrious names. He could have made it as a career writer from the outset while I doubt any of the aforementioned could have minus their celebrity. I very much admired his work. Their writing was satisfactory but nowhere near as memorable as Mr. Tryon’s efforts. The fact that he didn’t appear in the movie adaptations of The Other or Harvest Home, even with a cameo, seems to me to be telling that he had left his acting career behind him for good in order to concentrate on his writing career.

I was surprised to read in his Wikipedia article that he had been disappointed with the movie adaptation of The Other, even though he wrote the screenplay. I thought it was excellent. I guess this is indicative of that fact that Mr. Tyron was a perfectionist. He was taken from us all too soon. He is missed.

You obviously made a favorable impression on him for him to have asked someone to express his regards to you! You can take pride in that.

Thanks again. It was exceedingly kind of you.HistoryBuff14 (talk) 18:31, 24 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]