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Columbus, a self-proclaimed Charles Dickens fans, wrote Gremlims, Goonies, and Young Sherlock Holmes, and is currently sitting on or near the top of the film-writing pile.
Paramount Studio probably expected something contemporary about a teenage detective in New York. "They probably thought I would do anything but a Dickens or Victorian style film," he notes.
The English novel was born in forgery. Robinson Crusoe never existed. Neither did Lemuel Gulliver or Pamela Andrews. Yet they all left detailed accounts of their lives and adventures, thanks to the intercessions of Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift and Samuel Richardson. As readers grew more sophisticated, authors in England and...
Biographer Michael Meyer, accustomed to tamer Scandinavians (as in his 1971 Ibsen: A Biography), fails to address the fearful Strindberg paradox as forthrightly as he might. He is long on description, short and cautious on analysis. But in the process of collecting data from Strindberg's life and from some...
Perhaps The Color Purple will bring Spielberg the one triumph that has thus ( far eluded him: an Oscar for Best Director (though Clint Eastwood wonders if the industry may not think Spielberg is "a little too young and too successful. He has done so well, it may be a long...