TRIVIA TODAY - Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Greetings Infomaniacs,

Over the weekend my cousin and I went to see The Great Gatsby. This was one of my favorite books in school, and I recently reread it when I found out that Baz Luhrmann had directed a new adaptation of the classic novel.

The film was full of glitz and glamor, just as I expected, and I loved every minute of it. I thought that Leonardo DiCaprio captured the essence of the mysterious Gatsby, and the music and costumes made for a fun and entertaining viewing experience.

Now that I've got Gatsby on my mind, I thought I would share some fun facts with you about F. Scott Fitzgerald and his famous story.

Enjoy!
Melissa

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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "Be everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way."

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RANDOM TIDBITS
Fitzgerald considered titling his novel Among Ash-heaps and Millionaires and On the Road to West Egg before settling on The Great Gatsby.

Gatz is a nearly seven hour play about one man's obsession with The Great Gatsby.

The Modern Library named The Great Gatsby the second best English-language novel of the 20th century (the first was Ulysses by James Joyce).

Fitzgerald wrote his first novel, The Romantic Egoist, during World War I, convinced that he would not survive the fighting.

Fitzgerald's full name was Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald. The Francis Scott Key who wrote The Star-Spangled Banner was his second cousin three times removed.

American author Truman Capote wrote a screenplay of The Great Gatsby in which Nick was a homosexual and Jordan a vindictive lesbian-Capote's screenplay was never filmed.


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