Word: novelizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like literary artifacts or wan verbal gestures toward ennui. They behave, instead, as if they had all the time and space imaginable to lead and ponder their complicated lives. Each of the eleven pieces in The Progress of Love seems to contain enough material for a fair-sized novel; Munro's art of compression emphasizes amplitudes rather than economies...
Idaho Fair Share, a local consumer-advocacy group, attacked W.W.P.'s novel plan as a "welfare program for the rich." Company officials, however, respond that hot tubs, which currently cost about $2,000 apiece, are affordable items for most middle-class families. Moreover, W.W.P. maintains, by increasing energy usage the company can hold down rates for all customers. So far, though, most of the utility's frugal customers seem to look upon hot tubs, affordable or not, as frivolous purchases. Only about 30 have bought tubs during the first seven weeks of the program, well short of W.W.P.'s ultimate...
...Jeff Dunham to speak. Jeff talked about comedy writing, and he said $ soundly that if you could create a joke a day pretty soon you would have a routine, much as it is said that if you could write a page a day every year you would have a novel. The audience took notes...
...reviews and was a box-office flop; the one before, Heaven's Gate, wrote the book--and was the subject of one--on celluloid disasters. But that has not stopped Director Michael Cimino from undertaking yet another big-budget epic: The Sicilian, based on Mario Puzo's best-selling novel. Now being filmed in Italy, the movie centers on the short, bloody career of Italian Gangster Salvatore Giuliano, a real-life Robin Hood of the late '40s who dreamed of turning Sicily into a U.S. state. He is played by the French heartthrob (and most recent Tarzan) Christopher Lambert...
...Trick Pony, the 1980 feature film he wrote and starred in, bottomed out at the box office. A 1983 tour with his old partner Art Garfunkel was a nostalgic about-face. Hearts and Bones, in 1983, did not even offer up one high-charting song, a novel situation indeed for the author of such classics as Bridge Over Troubled Water and Mrs. Robinson. What was needed, clearly, was something a little different. It was called Gumboots...