The best line in this breathy, gossipy, here-we go-again-with-the-Lost-Generation exposé of the antics of the real people on whom Ernest Hemingway based his first big success, The Sun Also Rises, belongs to Zelda Fitzgerald. She called Ernest—not yet the white-bearded Cuban fisherman "Papa," but a hungry-for-success unknown reporter and literary wannabe in Paris—"a pansy with hair on his chest" and "a phony he-man." Ernest responded flatly that "Zelda is crazy," and history proved him right. History hasn't been as certain about Zelda's claims, though scholars exploded with speculation after the publication in heavily edited form in 1986 of his novel The Garden of Eden, where some gender blurring seems to be going on between the husband and wife characters and both are interested in the same woman.
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