She was utterly unfazed by rejections; into the ready envelope went the turned-down piece to be looked at by someone else. She was by then at work on something new and that, the active in-process writing (not the piece she had already submitted), was what truly engaged her. But far ...
Both losses left him unfazed. Afterward, the couple piled into a car with some colleagues and headed to the Vanity Fair party. They had not been invited. “When Happy Feet won, they said, ‘Oh, you can go to any party with the Oscar,’” explains Miller. And Margaret said: ‘We’...