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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.comCHAPTER FIVEA Round Universe$spotlights crisscrossed the sky as Ayn and Frank drovetoward Hollywood for the long-awaited debut of the movie TheFountainhead in June 1949. While it was being shot Rand had been onthe set almost daily, making sure the script she wrote was not altered. Shepaid special attention to Roark’s courtroom speech. When King Vidor,the director, tried to shoot an abridged version of the six-minute speech,the longest in film history, she threatened to denounce the movie. JackWarner joked later that he was afraid she would blow up his studio,and he told Vidor to shoot it as written. Rand also successfully battledfilm censors in the conservative Hays Office, who objected as much toher individualistic rhetoric as the movie’s racy sexuality. But even AynRand was no match for the Hollywood hit machine. At the movie’s starstuddedpremiere she was devastated to discover the film had been cut,eliminating Howard Roark’s climactic declaration, “I wish to come hereand say that I am a man who does not exist for others.” 1The movie’s debut fueled a general disillusionment with her life inCalifornia. Now in her forties, Rand struggled with her weight, hermoodiness, her habitual fatigue. The differences between her and Frank,once the source of fruitful balance in their relationship, had translatedinto a widening gap between them. Frank spent most of his days out inthe garden while Rand worked in her study. At dinner they often hadlittle to say to one another. Adding to her weariness was a contentiouslawsuit against an anti-Communist colleague, Lela Rogers (mother ofthe dancer Ginger). Rand had coached Rogers before a political radiodebate and was named party to a subsequent slander suit, then forced toanswer court summons and consult with her lawyers. 2Salvation came from an unexpected quarter. Since the publicationof The Fountainhead Rand had fielded thousands of fan letters. She had133