Word: novelists
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...supporting actress Oscar; of a stroke; in Edgartown, Mass. Talented in many modes, she also wrote two hit plays in the 1940s (Over Twenty-One and Years Ago), a novel (Shady Lady, 1982), three volumes of autobiography and, with her husband of 43 years, Director and Novelist Garson Kanin, a host of antic romances, including the Hepburn-Tracy vehicles Adam's Rib (1949) and Pat and Mike...
...Joanne Woodward as Amanda Wingfield, the desperate matriarch. Karen Allen, star of Raiders of the Lost Ark and Starman, as the soulful daughter Laura. TV Star James Naughton (Trauma Center, Planet of the Apes) as Laura's "gentleman caller." And John Sayles, filmmaker (Return of the Secaucus Seven) and novelist (Union Dues), making his professional stage debut as Tom, the restless, seething son who narrates Tennessee Williams' doom-struck "memory play" about his family. Add a designer who has won a Tony nomination, a director who has mounted more than 100 productions at venues including the New York City Opera...
...Novelist Jim Harrison, author of Legends of the Fall and Sun Dog, has had 13 books published, but none of his 13 screenplays has yet been made into a film. "I've got a couple of million dollars for them, so I don't care too much," he says. Harrison maintains there is no stigma to having a lot of unproduced scripts. "Everyone knows that the screenplay is never the decisive factor," he says. "What counts is the deal structure, where something is shot, what stars are lined...
...since the days of the Forty-Niners," wrote Novelist Upton Sinclair in 1933, "had there been such a way for the little fellow to get rich as in this new business." The little fellow Sinclair mentioned could have been Chaplin. Born in a London slum, the comic arrived in the U.S. in 1910. Three years later he signed his first movie contract, at $150 a week; four years after that, he was to make $1 million a year and become, for a time, the planet's most recognizable and cherished figure. Chaplin deserved no less; his poignant one-reel comedies...
Bukowski is typical of the outsider author Martin tends to favor. John Fante, a neglected proletarian novelist and screenwriter, was rescued from obscurity by Black Sparrow in the last years of his life. His reissued novels, Ask the Dust and Dreams from Bunker Hill, sold more than 10,000 copies each. Martin's current favorite is the late Wyndham Lewis, a novelist and critic whose work, & said T.S. Eliot, combined "the thought of the modern and the energy of the cave man." Lewis also dabbled in art. To Poet Edith Sitwell, his pictures seemed "to have been painted...