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Before Matt Damon was The Talented Mr. Ripley, there was Alain Delon #book2movies

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I have Great Expectations that I will write a real 'review' of this classic soon...

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Hunger Games director Gary Ross will adapt and direct "CATCHING FIRE"

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More Nicholas Sparks books being made into movies...

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Saturday Snapshot: Rainy Days are for Reading

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HAPPY SAINT PATRICK'S DAY ... TIME TO GET YOUR GREEN ON

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Post A Picture of An Indie Bookstore on Your Blog!

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Being Flynn starring Robert DeNiro, Paul DanoOpens Today

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It's official! Marty and Leo are back together again with The Wolf of Wall Street

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Ewan McGregor - Watch Salmon Fishing in the Yemen Interview

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What was the original title of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel?

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Is Barbra Streisand too old to play Gypsy Rose Lee's mother?

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Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present, Mr. Alexander Soderberg!

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GYPSY! It began with a book...

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The Hunger Games Red Carpet Premiere PLUS Josh Hutcherson Peeta Clip

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Sunday Snippets: On the Road by Jack Kerouac Trailer, Casting for The Marriage Plot

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My favorite place to read --- Review Copy Clean Up Challenge

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The Expats by Chris Pavone: CBS Films hires script writer

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The Lenny Kravitz as Cinna clip from The Hunger Games

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MTV goes to Cassandra French's Finishing School for Boys by Eric Garcia

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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen Adaptation Stars Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt #book2movie

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Ryan Gosling Reads Young Adult #book2movie

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ONCE UPON A TIME ... a poor girl competes for the handsome prince in The Selection

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Who Will Fill Paul Newman's Shoes as Lew Archer in the Film Version of Ross MacDonald's The Galton Case?

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky: About the Book #book2movie

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Dakota Fanning in NOW IS GOOD video trailer with Jeremy Irvine #book2movie

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From the Movie Morgue: Sense & Sensibility on Netflix Instant Streaming #book2movies

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Indignation by Philip Roth: My take on the book [review] #book2movies

I've been sharing images, pairing them with paragraphs from Philip Roth's small book, Indignation , all week long. A small book which carries quite a punch. Our young hero, Marcus Messner, starts off his tale moaning—or should I say 'kvetching' as his 'Jewishness' is part and parcel of the story—about his overprotective father, a Kosher butcher in Newark, New Jersey. Jewishness, sex, death: those are Philip Roth's usual themes, much in evidence here. While Marcus–or Markie as his dad calls him—has enjoyed a wonderful relationship with his father for his entire life and lovingly details working together with him at the store from flicking chickens to how to kosher a chicken to washing out the pails of fat, but now that Marcus is in college his father has become a complete worry-wort and can't bear not knowing where Marcus is and what he's doing. He's terrified Marcus will do something to get himself thrown out of school and put at the fron...

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Updated 1/14/2019 Congrats! You've just reached one of my most widely visited posts. I get it, lots of us want to hear what actors think about acting straight from their own lips. I've got a hunch if you find this post from 2013 interesting, you'll also find this year's more current video noteworthy too so I'm including it below. Cheers! Last Sunday I shared The Hollywood Reporter's Writers Roundtable , a lively discussion centered around the process and challenge of scripting stories for film, be it an original idea or adapting from another source. It was an interesting bunch of writers responsible for some of this years most talked about films including George Clooney and partner Grant Heslov (Monuments Men), Julie Delpey (Before Midnight), Nicole Holofcener (Enough Said), John Ridley (12 Years a Slave) and Danny Strong (Lee Daniel's The Butler). This week I want to share THR's Actors panel. Watch as Stephen Galloway, THR's longti...

Will Traynor: Dreaming of France in Me Before You

"Where would you go, if you could go anywhere?" Le Marais, Paris My weekend reading, the devastating Me Before You , had me shedding tears aplenty but there was also plenty to smile at in this powerful, enlightening and utterly surprising novel. Louisa, has been hired on to be a caretaker/companion to Will Traynor, the handsome but bitter quadriplegic who has decided to end his life. Yes, it's that blunt and emotionally loaded. Louisa's goal is to make Will's life so full of adventure and surprise that he changes his mind. Will, on the other hand, is intent on making small-town girl Louisa live a larger life than the one afforded by her place of birth and education. My Take on the Novel 'Me Before You' "Promise me you won't spend the rest of your life stuck around this bloody parody of a place mat." Will tells her, the fact that he's the one stuck in the wheelchair not lost on Lou or the reader. "You only get one li...

The Man with The Golden Arm: Based on the book by Nelson Algren

I read The Man with the Golden Arm way back in a college English class. American Literature: Post World War II. Something like that. The novel was written by Nelson Algren, born on this day (March 28, 1909) in 1949, won the National Book Award in 1950 and was made into a film starring Francis Albert Sinatra in 1955. The main character, Frankie the man with the golden arm is an army vet “with a monkey on his bank’’. He's an addict, a dealer in illegal card games, a wannabe drummer tricked into marriage to the wrong woman. Set in Chicago, on its poverty-ridden streets, revealing a dark underbelly of America in a way unlike the way I was used to seeing our country, I was deeply moved. At the time I was still very much enamored of the British writers ala Dickens or at least the American writers who crossed the pond and gave us their view of the continent, ala Henry James. This ugly America was for my sheltered eyes, a whole new bag. ‘ Frankie Machine had seen ...

12 Paris Locations that Fans of the Classic "Gigi" Won't Want to Miss #book2movie

Gigi and Gaston catch everyone's eyes as they enter world-famous Maxim's Today's Dreaming of France post is a reprise of my longest and most popular Dreaming of France entry. A trip through the Parisian locations used in the classic film Gigi, based on the book by Colette, and one of my favorite film classics . Originally published 3/30/2015 " Gigli ?" my son asks, wondering why I'd be at all interested in the Ben Affleck, J-Lo disaster, the epitome of a bad romance, made even worse because its epic failure has been immortalized on film. " No! Not Gigli. Gigi . Very famous movie musical? Takes place in Paris during the Belle Epoque? Won 9 Oscars? Starred Leslie Caron and Louis Jourdan? Vincent Minelli directed? " " Hmmm" he nods, a shrugging respect for the director, meaning maybe he'll watch it with me one day especially as he's also curious about the Belle Epoque and wouldn't mind going back to Paris and getting a...

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