Word: novelization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...novel Around the World in Eighty Days, Phileas Fogg employed all manner of transport--steamers, railways, yachts, carriages, trading vessels, sledges and even elephants. But no balloon. It was Hollywood, not Jules Verne, that sent the intrepid Brit off in that aircraft. Trivia, you say? But there was nothing trivial about the real-life fulfillment of what seemed to be quixotic fantasy last week in Northern Africa. In a 180-ft.-high balloon, a silvery dare in the air, two adventurers--Swiss psychiatrist Bertrand Piccard, 41, and British balloon instructor Brian Jones, 51--completed their tour of the world...
...Verne's novel asks of Fogg: "What had he brought back from this long and weary journey? Nothing, say you?" The names Piccard and Jones may not strike the same chords as Columbus or Magellan or Lindbergh or Armstrong. Indeed, last weekend's achievement is literally lighter than air. But Piccard and Jones have won the last world-spanning contest of our era. And now they are history...
...plan--that greets whoever is fingering you. Most often, these plan files are either blank or filled with a brief witty saying. It's not uncommon, however, to see plan files that push the very envelope of the genre. One person I know is serializing a soft-porn novel. Another has cut-and-pasted a 90-page academic paper. There is no real limit to what you can do with a plan file, so long as it doesn't crash the server...
...last seen swinging a sledge with his dad, breaking truck tires loose from rims. Gets word processor (we guess), writes all this stuff down to see whether it makes sense. No, but it makes a life, or the rowdy first part of one, and a better-than-fair first novel. Onward...
...easy to see why Susan Sarandon chose this adaptation of Anne Tyler's quirky novel as the vehicle for her first TV role in a decade. Charlotte, a coddled housewife taken hostage by Jake, a punk bank robber, is a dream part, with the sort of sly comedic opportunities Sarandon hasn't had since Bull Durham. On the lam, Charlotte and Jake (a sweetly bumbling Stephen Dorff) are soon on the road to self-discovery. If their inner journey becomes too predictable (she loosens up; he starts to pull himself together; they sort of fall for each other), never mind...