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In December of 2001 acclaimed author, Michael Peterson, was accused in the death of his wife, Kathleen.
Joseph Cotten plays cheap novelette author Holly Martins, just arrived in Vienna to meet with long-time friend Harry Lime, who offered him a job.
One scene finds an apparently sober middle-aged man at a local bar pouring his heart out to our pair of 19-year old protagonists for no apparent reason except possibly that the author wanted to squeeze in another monologue.
Apart from everything visible you can read more between the lines, specially if you are familiar with Russian history and the social relations in the past.Reality is not shown too clearly - but it is all on purpose because the author's and the director's idea was to show a grotesque,rather than a document.
"The Cathedral and the Bazaar" has become a modern classic, and I enjoyed the author's appearance.
George Sanders plays an author with a twisted mind who taunts Stanwyck through out the film.
Harold Bell Wright, the author of the story, was a popular novelist of the day, and a number of his stories were turned into films.
Taye Diggs is attractive as Harper, the author of the book and the best man at the wedding; Morris Chestnut plays a professional football player and the groom; Nia Long is sexy and funny as Jordan, a TV journalist/Oprah wannabe who hopes to rekindle a romance with Harper at the wedding; Harold Perrineau plays a grade school teacher caught in a stranglehold of a relationship with an emasculating female (Melissa DeSousa); Terrence Howard steals every scene he is in as this group's voice of reality; Sanaa Lathan plays Harper's fiancée who can't get Harper to commit and Monica Calhoun is the bride who is at the center of the explosion caused by the book.
"The Staircase" recounts the investigation, pre-trial strategies, familial turmoil and then the trial of a wealthy author (Michael Peterson) accused of murdering his a corp exec wife.
Popular occult author Dennis Wheatley was so pleased with Hammer's 1968 movie version of his novel The Devil Rides Out that he happily agreed to them making further adaptations of his work, even going so far as to granting the rights for nothing.
The film is about imagination and how the author uses it to solve her real life issues.
This is a well written piece by Peter Morgan, author of Stephen Frears' and Helen Mirren's The Queen currently making the rounds of the theatres.
I doubt any author would want to see their work butchered the way Winfrey has done this novel on screen.
A great author who builds a penetrating study in Faulkner.
Based on a novel set on the Cornish coast by Daphne Du Maurier, the same author and setting as "Rebecca", Laughton plays a decadent, deceitful nobleman who shelters a young orphaned woman from a band of cutthroats living down the road; seems these land pirates are in league with a not-so-mysterious benefactor to sabotage the ships attempting to port, ransacking their vessels and killing everyone on board.
Not by a million miles, but there are problems with it, especially where the Steinbeck-as-biologist philosophy of life comes into play, and we realize that the author, for all his compassion and love for living things, also views all animals as the same.
It is the story of an author and three of his lovers, focusing on the great love of his life, Lucia.
Certainly it is worthwhile to repeat the complaint that the racist producers of this shameful exploitation of a beloved book series and it's author's good name to make money with no concern for quality or pleasing viewers.
Even though 'The 9th Gate' was not the right adaptation from the 'El club Dumas', from the same author, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, it is a good film, making the fans of a good thriller eager for a much better work in what concerns 'LA TABLA DE FlANDES', stating yet that it's very easy not to drift from the book, while make a new movie...
He plays real-life author Whitley Strieber (author of novels such as "Wolfen"), who during one Christmas holiday at his cabin in upstate NY, has what he believes to be an alien encounter.
Bram is the author of one successful book, being hounded by his publisher to produce a second.
Ronald Chetwynd Hayes is a very underrated author .
In 1941, Max Laosson, an author and editor of an Estonian psychoanalytic magazine, joined a Soviet destruction battalion.
As the noted British author and Africa researcher Alex de Waal has noted, “Politics creates famine, and politics can stop it.”
The Finnish author Sofi Oksanen once observed that Russia’s information warfare works because its targets are often willing participants.
He suffers from what author Ian Hughes has recently called “a disordered mind,” filled with hate, paranoia, and narcissism.
Combining these strands of conservative criticism, the real problem with Piketty’s book becomes clear: its author is a mentally unstable foreign communist.
Philip Augar, the author of The Death of Gentlemanly Capitalism, argues that “Good characteristics of the City were thrown out along with the bad,” and that Thatcher’s reforms “put us on a helter-skelter course towards the financial crisis.”
Was the Iron Lady an author of the world’s current misfortunes?
It is a brilliant assault on what the author, who is Lebanese, French, Arab and Christian, calls “the panthers” of identity politics.
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