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Imagine a film with the legal smarts of a John Grisham novel and a sci-fi concept wilder than Deep Space Nine. Reginald and Warrington Hudlin, the filmmakers behind House Party and Boomerang, are in discussions with New York University law professor Derrick Bell about making a movie version of a short story in Bell's book Faces at the Bottom of the Well. Bell's story is a sharp commentary on the way the legal system mistreats minorities. The plot: aliens buy all the blacks in America and transport them into outer space. Bell, who lost...
...Sydney Pollack picture is based on John Grisham's best-selling novel of the same name...
...JOHN GRISHAM'S EARLIER THRILLERS The Firm and The Pelican Brief were a bit overwhooped and underthrilling. But his newest novel THE CLIENT (Doubleday; $23.50) works a lot better, possibly because the author's wide-eyed narrative style fits the title figure. Mark Sway is the kind of 11-year-old boy who picks trouble out of the air the way a seagull fields thrown french fries. He becomes the client of a bodacious middle-aged woman defense attorney by overhearing a gabby, Mob-connected New Orleans lawyer as this fellow is rambling his way toward suicide. Soon the clownish...
...literary standing of the estimable Higgins. It is a spreading gray ooze of lesser lawyer novels with indistinguishable titles, written perhaps for love, perhaps for glory, but probably to capitalize on the dumbfounding popularity of lawyer novels by Scott Turow (The Burden of Proof, Presumed Innocent) and John Grisham (The Firm, The Pelican Brief...
Actually, Hope was in the midst of a minor boom when Clinton was born there in 1946. The Federal Government established an artillery proving ground outside the town, which brought in skilled workers during the war and created new jobs. Clinton's admired Uncle Buddy, Oren Grisham, worked in the fire department on the proving grounds, which are now an industrial park...