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Michael Caine, Jude Law, Kenneth Branagh, and Harold Pinter: four men with 2 Oscars, 12 Oscar nominations, and a Nobel Prize for literature between them. Throw in a story that won a Tony when it was a play and won critical accolades when it was first adapted for film in 1972, and this remake of Anthony Shaffer’s “Sleuth” ought to be an instant success...
Shaffer drafted the original screenplay for the 1972 film. This time around, famed playwright Harold Pinter has taken the reins and added his own touch. Pinter offers a modern take on the story, revitalizing the decades-old tale for today’s audiences...
...youth was seen as the hope of English-speaking theater - "the new Olivier," critics said - and who had one-upped Olivier by directing and starring in an acclaimed film of Shakespeare's Henry V while still in his 20s. The new script for Sleuth is by Harold Pinter, the most demanding and honored playwright of the past half-century. Pinter, after all, did win the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature; and at 77, this imperious Brit is surely beyond the worry of writing scripts for 14-year-old American boys. So his criminal botch...
...selection process as a kind of geopolitical checkers match, as the Swedish Academy plucks major figures from the national literatures of far-flung countries: China (Gao Xingjian, 2000) Trinidad and Tobago (V.S. Naipaul, 2001), Hungary (Irme Kertesz, 2002), South Africa (J.M. Coetzee, 2003), Austria (Elfriede Jelinek, 2004), England (Harold Pinter, 2005), Turkey (Orhan Pamuk, 2006). By choosing Doris Lessing in 2007 the Academy has scored a triple: she was born in Iran, known then as Persia, in 1919; raised in Zimbabwe, known then as Rhodesia; and lives in the U.K. In its citation, the academy called her "that epicist...
Older Labour members also shudder, remembering one of the darkest hours in their party history. In 1976, when Harold Wilson resigned as Prime Minister, James Callaghan took his place. Two years later, ahead in the polls and apparently with every prospect of winning his own mandate, Callaghan unexpectedly shied away from calling elections. Early in 1979, he lost a confidence motion and was forced to go to the country. His opponent, Margaret Thatcher, led her Tory party to victory and to an unbroken 18 years in office...