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...nabbed five Genies (Canada's Oscar equivalent), including one for director David Cronenberg. It also earned a chilling blast of invective from Ted Turner, boss of bosses of the film's U.S. distributor, Fine Line Features (and vice chairman of Time Warner, parent of TIME). Now Crash--from J.G. Ballard's notorious 1973 novel, and with an NC-17 warning sticker affixed--finally opens in the country that invented car culture...
Fade in on a luscious blond, sleek as a vintage Corvette, who presses her breast against a car hood while an anonymous man caresses her skin as if it were rich Corinthian leather. The scene is from a film being shot by director James Ballard (James Spader), and the star is Ballard's wife Catherine (Deborah Kara Unger...
Arsenio plays an Atlanta sportscaster who lives with his beautiful, hardworking lawyer wife (Vivica Fox) and her Harvard-educated brother (Alimi Ballard). The plots are standard sitcom fare: he goes off to a bar with his buddies when she wants to cuddle at home; they fuss and make up. The writers have been culled from some especially bland series. Hall had a much publicized fight over "creative differences" with his former head writer, David Rosenthal, a veteran of Ellen, and replaced him with Timothy O'Donnell, who had worked on Dave's World and Growing Pains. Three other writers come...
Ulrich, who raised a family of five while making her way through graduate school part-time, stumbled across the diary of Martha Ballard at the Maine State Library while researching another project. The culmination of eight years of work on the diary is "A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary...
...there was an amazing effort to not only tell the story of Martha Ballard but also to talk about how scholars create a work of history. It's a different product because it's a different product because it's a different medium, different assumptions, different needs. I think there are pretty important differences; the film is much richer and more complete in terms of conveying a visual world. On the other hand there are things that books can do that films absolutely can't. I think that there is a historical complexity in the book that...