Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President's Men, they felt they could exercise some control over their first book. Woodward also objects to The Company, John Ehrlichman's novel on which the miniseries is loosely based. Says Woodward: "The events, the characters are so thinly veiled. If a work is fiction, then there is an obligation to go a great distance away from well-known facts and characters...
...frontier between truth and fiction used to be a well-lit border, and anyone caught trying to cross it was severely punished. No longer. So many others are now romping in what used to be the press's own domain-contemporary history and the lives of current public figures-that it's hard to tell the truth without a score card, and no one is providing...
...hour-long serial, Washington: Behind Closed Doors, is a fine example: it was called fiction (which helps avoid libel suits), but since it was loosely "based" on a novel by John Ehrlichman, who went from the White House to the jailhouse, part of the fun was seeing how he got even with his Washington colleagues. At least Washington stuck fairly close to its characters' recognizable attributes, unlike most of the schlocky bestselling novels of recent years that trade on the public's understanding that they are really about Marilyn Monroe, Jacqueline Onassis or Howard Hughes The viciousness...
...because he managed to capture a scene perfectly and the response of his readers was "Yes, that's exactly how it is." Yardley is especially fond of Lardner's ability to "distinguish the subtleties of the way people talked and thought and then to turn them into effective fiction." Because Lardner's books were never best-sellers, the assumption is that he achieved his popularity in the media--for instance, his stories which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post and New Yorker were more successful than such books as "You Know...
...FICTION...