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(Full disclosure: I'm acquainted with Rosetto and the "gay Sammy Glick."
6, undated (topic 11); FBI reports of investigation, interviews of recipients of calls from Jeremy Glick, Sept. 11, 2001, through Sept. 12, 2001.
Flick's name is clearly an hommage to Sammy Glick, the Hollywood hustler of Budd Schulberg's classic portrait of '30s ambition, What Makes Sammy Run ? Glick was viewed through the eyes of Al Manheim, a jaded lefty alcoholic who regarded this new species of capitalist human with contempt but also with awe: Sammy was a force of nature.
--the replacement of "Sammy Glick" with "Tracy Flick" gives the game away--but told in a way that makes more (or more modern) sense: Its hero--unlike Budd Schulberg's--doesn't remain the voice of moral authority; his envy, self-hatred, and displaced lust makes him self-destruct in spectacular fashion.
It continues the momentum of the 1998 acquisition of 101 paintings and prints by Paul Gauguin and the School of Pont-Aven, and the 1999 announcements of the promised gifts of the Glick Collection of contemporary glass and the Clowes Collection of 100 works by European Old Masters.
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