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Hemingway made his then-wife Hadley<br />
sit with Toklas when they visited Stein. He<br />
called Toklas “nice, but scary.”<br />
Zelig begins with a scene in which Allen’s<br />
character and the hard-partying Great<br />
Gatsby author discuss the social classes.<br />
Buñuel briefl y worked as a second-unit assistant<br />
director on Baker’s 1927 black-and-white silent<br />
fi lm trifl e Siren of the Tropics.<br />
Porter introduced the Fitzgeralds to his<br />
friends Gerald and Sara Murphy, who created<br />
a hub of artistic debauchery at their manse.<br />
Hemingway once<br />
called Eliot: “A<br />
damned good poet<br />
and a fair critic, but he<br />
can kiss my [backside]<br />
as a man and he never<br />
hit a ball out of the<br />
infi eld in his life.”<br />
Hemingway disliked Zelda for cheating on Scott<br />
with a French aviator. (Who can blame him?)<br />
In Zelig, Allen stands<br />
next to the African-<br />
American “it girl”<br />
dancer and actress in<br />
a newsreel clip from<br />
the 1920s.<br />
The painter and the pianist met on the French<br />
Riviera through Porter’s American friends,<br />
Gerald and Sara Murphy.<br />
Hemingway savaged his old drinking buddy<br />
Fitzgerald in his memoir A Moveable Feast for,<br />
essentially, being a wuss.<br />
F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, were<br />
regular visitors at Stein’s salons.<br />
Hemingway used Stein’s era-defi ning expression<br />
“the Lost Generation” in The Sun Also Rises, but<br />
the two later had a falling out.<br />
The works of Man Ray and Picasso were<br />
celebrated at the fi rst-ever Surrealist exhibition<br />
in 1925; both attended the fête.<br />
Man Ray snapped a well-known picture of his<br />
friends Dalí and Buñuel that has them making<br />
“wild eyes” at the camera.<br />
PHOTOGRAPHS BY CARL VAN VECHTEN (F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, RAY, DALI, MATISSE, TOKLAS)<br />
GERTRUDE<br />
STEIN<br />
ERNEST<br />
HEMINGWAY<br />
F. SCOTT<br />
FITZGERALD<br />
ZELDA<br />
FITZGERALD<br />
T. S.<br />
ELIOT<br />
PABLO<br />
PICASSO<br />
MAN<br />
RAY<br />
SALVADOR<br />
DALÍ<br />
HENRI<br />
MATISSE<br />
WOODY<br />
ALLEN<br />
LUIS<br />
BUÑUEL<br />
COLE<br />
PORTER<br />
JOSEPHINE<br />
BAKER<br />
ALICE B.<br />
TOKLAS<br />
WRITERS ARTISTS FILMMAKERS MUSICIANS/PERFORMERS SOCIALITE