Word: novelizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...items garnered special interest. The highest price paid last night was $6600 for an original 11-page shortstory manuscript by bestselling author Stephen King, bid by an agent for a future pop culture museum. One woman paid $3500 for the privilege of being included in the next "Spenser" mystery novel by Cambridge resident Robert B. Parker...
Wuthering Heights: A Pop Myth is the creation of Alek Keshishian, who directs and choreographs a lip-synch adaptation of the Emily Bronte novel, using the music of Kate Bush, Rickie Lee Jones, Madonna and Billy Idol...
...well, Loebeo has more MTV than Bronte and while it lacks the novel's intensity and passion, master veejay Keshishian spins a clever series of vignettes, which manage to tie the simple plot line and lyrics together...
Steven Spielberg's controversial The Color Purple, which had received eleven nominations--the same number as Out of Africa--won no awards at all. Based on Alice Walker's novel, Purple is a saga about rural Southern black women in the first decades of the century. Some blacks claimed that it insulted black men by depicting them as child abusers and wife beaters; others defended the film as a breakthrough for blacks in Hollywood. The argument was complicated when Spielberg failed to gain a nomination as Best Director--a sign, said his friends, that the industry establishment envied his commercial...
...home offers little of the imperial style to which the dethroned couple is accustomed: more than 50,000 cars a day roar along a four-lane highway just outside the house, while sundry beachcombers, joggers and fishermen can peer at the grounds from the nearby beach. One novel feature, however, may remind the exiles of their old Manila home. Within 24 hours of the Marcoses relocation, picketers appeared outside the walled compound, brandishing placards on which were scrawled such messages as DEATH TO MARCOS AND PUPPETS OF U.S. IMPERIALISM...