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Alex & Emma is a test of whether Wilson can move beyond boyfriend status to the altar of the leading man. He plays Alex Sheldon, a novelist dogged by gambling debts and the Cuban thugs who want to collect on them. Wilson, who is required to convey more distress than in previous roles, is in virtually every scene, a fact that caused him some real discomfort. "I usually don't mind watching movies I'm in," he says, "but in this, there's just so much of me I can't take a breather and relax while other people are onscreen...
DIED. LEON URIS, 78, robust novelist of war's glories and ravages; in Shelter Island, N.Y. After serving as a Marine on Guadalcanal, he scored with best sellers set on the front lines of World War II (Battle Cry), the Warsaw Ghetto uprising (Mila 18), Israel (Exodus) and Palestine (The Haj). He also wrote his own epitaph; his tombstone will read: AMERICAN SOLDIER. JEWISH WRITER...
...father was an opium agent for the British Raj - has brought a tide of conferences, articles and books on the man and his legacy. Chief among them are two engrossing biographies: George Orwell by British author Gordon Bowker (Little, Brown; 495 pages) and Orwell: The Life by British novelist and critic D.J. Taylor (Chatto & Windus; 466 pages). Also stoking the fire are two slimmer works: Why Orwell Matters by polemicist Christopher Hitchens (Basic Books; 211 pages) and an entertaining look at Orwell's second wife Sonia, The Girl from the Fiction Department by Hilary Spurling (Penguin; 208 pages). These additions...
...Geisha, I became deeply interested in how people work,” Golden says. “People think I wrote Memoirs of a Geisha as a scholar of Asia. I wrote it as a writer. I thought of myself and drew on skills I developed as a novelist...
...writing is approached in a very different way—like conquering all of literature. He takes no shortcuts, whatever it takes,” friend and fellow novelist Mameve Medwed says. “By the time he sits down to write he knows everything there is to know—only Arthur would learn Dutch for his new novel...