"Highballs?" asks the head waiter at a restaurant Gatsby visits with gangster Meyer Wolfsheim. (A scotch and soda is an archetypal version of the cocktail.) "'Yes, highballs,' agreed Gatsby." ...

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As The Great Gatsby turns 100, take a look at the world ... Similarly, Harlem’s Cotton Club started off as an outfit where the gangster Owney Madden could sell liquor to the people of Harlem ...

In performance this Gatsby turns out to be a sleek ... where swirling trenchcoats accompany Shady, sung by the gangster-bootlegger Wolfsheim, is baffling though. Wolfsheim is played with ...

Gatsby is new money. Having pulled himself up ... 50s-60s - Wolfsheim is a larger-than-life gangster who is equal parts warm and menacing. A strong mover. Vocal range: strong, character-driven ...

Fitzgerald lived in a much more modest house just a few miles away when he was writing "The Great Gatsby." The Schietingers, though, believe the author must have visited here. They imagine him ...

Not only did he know Fitzgerald, he said, but he inspired his masterpiece. “I’m the real Jay Gatsby,” he declared. “The Great Gatsby” is celebrating its 100th anniversary this month.

There's a high likelihood you read The Great Gatsby in high school. But you probably didn't have a lesson like the one taught by Brian Hannon last week. Hannon teaches AP English Literature at ...

The Great Gatsby is synonymous with parties, glitz and glamour – but this is just one of many misunderstandings about the book that began with its first publication a century ago, in April 1925.

In the spring of 1940, F. Scott Fitzgerald was worried about “The Great Gatsby.” It had been fifteen years since the novel was published, and the author had little to show for it.