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Q&A with Anthony Slide on his Charles Brackett book   Who was Charles Brackett? Most people know Charles Brackett because of his partnership with Billy Wilder, with the two men co-writing screenplays, Brackett producing and Wilder directing such classic films as Five Graves to Cairo, The Lost Weekend, A Foreign Affair, and, of course, Sunset Blvd. He was a highly educated, Republican gentleman of the old school, who was drama critic of The New Yorker in the 1920s, the author of five novels, who came to Hollywood in 1932, initially working at RKO and then beginning a long-time relationship with...