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...Twenty years later, just before his death in 1968, Woolrich remembered one thing about ?Rear Window,? the most famous movie made from his fiction (which his agent had sold to Hollywood, along with five other stories, for a measly $5,000). ?Hitchcock wouldn?t even send me a ticket to the premiere in New York,? the writer told his young agent, Barry Malzberg. ?He knew where I lived. He wouldn?t even send me a ticket...
...Woolrich knew he was trading power for solvency when he sold his work to other media. In many years, film, radio and later TV versions of his work brought in the bulk of his income. In the 1940s he wrote 11 novels; Hollywood filmed eight of them within three years of their publication. True, Woolrich was not consulted when screenwriters gave his plots different endings (?No Man of Her Own?), different murderers (?Black Angel?). Authors rarely were then. Shakespeare and the Bible got rewritten with the same blithe abandon...
...have the video resources, get different versions of the same novel: Fran?ois Truffaut?s adaptation of ?Waltz into Darkness? and Michael Cristofer?s. Or the four films made from ?I Married a Dead Man?: the Hollywood ?No Man of Her Own,? the Indian ?Kati Patang,? the French ?J?ai ?pous? une ombre? and the Canadian-U.S. ?Mrs. Winterbourne.? Compare and contrast, class...
Eisner's revival of Disney has made him the current king of Hollywood and the darling of Wall Street. More important, though, is that Disney fans have begun to recognize him as a corporate hero of sorts, a long-awaited, trustworthy heir to Walt. Eisner has established himself as a charismatic, young-dad figure by appearing each week as the host of the Disney Sunday Movie, where the husky-voiced executive clowns with Mickey, Minnie and other colleagues. "This job is so perfect for him," says Dawn Steel, president of Columbia Pictures and a former co-worker at Paramount...
...Imagen has not been chasing terrorists or advising Hollywood starlets on their makeovers but concentrating on the far less glamorous--but more commercially viable--task of spotting defects on electronics boards before they end up in faulty cell phones or computers. Imagen's software is programmed to recognize patterns in much the same way the human brain learns to distinguish classes of objects (say, faces) as well as specific objects in that class--like your best friend's face. That's done by teaching the software, through trial and error, the common patterns that all faces share plus the specific...