So three months ago, after more than 28 years at Fitzgeralds, she was out of work.
In 1926, with "Gatsby" a roaring critical success, the Fitzgeralds returned to the Riveria. renting the Villa St-Louis in Juan-les-Pins.
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Even with the extensive documentation, scholars are divided over the Fitzgeralds' legacies.
Three families, the Ryans, the Fitzgeralds, and the Cullens, sometimes called the Irish Mafia, helped develop the town, especially in the postwar era.
By the time "Tender is the Night" was published five years later, the Fitzgeralds and the Murphys had long since returned to America.
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The Fitzgeralds would take the scenic Grande Corniche "through the twilight with the whole French Riviera twinkling below" for an evening at the casino.
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Finally last weekend she told the New York Times that The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys has more flaws than even the Standard had alleged.
When it came to restaurants, the Fitzgeralds avoided elaborate French cuisine.
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She has not been accused of plagiarism in connection with that book--or indeed with any of her books other than The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys.
While there were photographs of the Fitzgeralds here and there, pride of place went to studio portraits of Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan, who play Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan.
Last weekend she told the Times that after the controversy erupted, she ordered her research assistants to stop work on her current book project to reexamine The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys.
Nor did Goodwin's Time essay address the embarrassing fact that in 1993 she chastised Joe McGinniss , author of a book about Edward Kennedy , for allegedly lifting material from The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys without proper attribution.
Goodwin is withdrawing all unsold copies of the current edition of The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys and preparing a fully corrected version, so she now appears to be making a serious effort to address the plagiarism issue head on.
Goodwin herself seemed trapped in a hall of mirrors last month after The Weekly Standard accused her of plagiarizing from several sources in her hugely popular The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, a 1987 bestseller that later was made into a successful TV miniseries.
But Ms. Sutton, a confessed devotee of Sinatra and Tony Bennett, is closer to that realm of quality saloon singing than she is to the Sarah Vaughans and Ella Fitzgeralds of this world, whose liberties with melody and rhythm seemed unforced, like a first language...
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