Word: novelization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...underrated movie version of Primary Colors ends differently from Joe Klein's novel. In both, the idealistic young campaign aide, modeled on George Stephanopoulos, is disillusioned by the moral flaws (adultery and lying) of the presidential candidate, modeled on Bill Clinton. The book leaves it unclear whether George quits or joins the Administration. The movie adds a scene at the Inaugural Ball, making it clear that George has signed on. The camera pans the crowd, and a woman begs the President-elect, "Don't break our hearts...
...appreciates the help. Like other multimedia hip-hop stars, Hill, who appeared in Sister Act 2, has a lot of offers. She's considering a part in a possible movie adaptation of John Irving's novel The Cider House Rules, she's in discussions with director Joel Schumacher about appearing in a big-screen version of the musical Dreamgirls, and she recently started her own film production company. Next year, she hopes to go on tour with neosoul star D'Angelo...
...success as a writer came quickly. She graduated from Barnard College in 1990 and earned an M.F.A. from Brown three years later. Her first novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory, a semi-autobiographical tale of a Haitian girl reunited with her mother in the U.S., was published in 1994. The lyrical and haunting short-story collection Krik? Krak! came out the following year. And earlier this year, Danticat won the literary lottery when Oprah Winfrey chose Breath, Eyes, Memory as the June selection for her hugely popular on-air book club. "The call came out of the blue," says Danticat...
Though Breath, Eyes, Memory caught Oprah's eye, Danticat's The Farming of Bones is a richer, more resonant work. There is magic and loss on nearly every page. At one point in the novel, a man who has been struck by a machete and left for dead in a pile of corpses tells his story. "'I felt like my woman on our first night together,' he said. 'She woke up in the middle of the night and started screaming...this was her first night outside her mother's bed and she'd plain forgotten where she was... Waking...
LONDON: Here's a novel way to fight a battle-hardened, semtex-wielding terrorist: Take his house away. Legislators in Britain and Ireland get their first look at sweeping new antiterrorism laws proposed by both country's governments Tuesday -- and if the advance leaks are to be believed, the power to seize property is about to become the teeth in the peace process. If the bills are passed in emergency session Wednesday and Thursday, the five suspects currently being held in connection with the Omagh bombing could face losing their homes and financial assets -- not to mention losing their right...