Word: novelizations
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...Mills & Boon will release one rugby-inspired novel each month as part of its "International Billionaires" series, which it advertises with the slogan, "Life is a game of power and pleasure. And these men play to win!" All details pertaining to rugby-related matters - from the inside of a locker room to the typical day of a p.r. woman at Twickenham - were fact-checked with the Rugby Football Union (RFU), the body that governs the sport in England...
...Jean Delannoy, 100, directed the forbidden-love hit La symphonie pastorale, from the André Gide novel, in 1946; the following decade, his precise dramas became the butt of young turks like Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard who formed France's New Wave. Back when the international audience got much of its fun, sex and sentiment from Italian movies, Dino Risi, 91, provided robust entertainment in many genres. Among his 80-some features were 17 starring Vittorio Gassman, most prominently the cynical social fable Il Sorpasso / The Easy Life and the blind-officer-on-a-toot drama Profuma di Donna...
...Some novelists and playwrights moonlighted in the movies. As a writer whose crime novels inspired a couple dozen movies (seven of them French), Donald Westlake, 76, could have retired with honors in the 60s, after Godard turned The Jugger into Made in USA and The Hunter became John Boorman's Point Blank. In the 70s he owned the comedy-caper genre, for what that's worth, with The Hot Rock, Bank Shot and Hot Stuff. He wrote scripts based on his own novels and those of other crime writers, incl. Jim Thompson's The Grifters (Oscar nomination) and Patricia Highsmith...
Westlake inspired younger writers ranging from Stephen King (who named the homicidal alter ego in The Dark Half George Stark in Richard Stark's honor) to yours truly, appearing as a character in my recent novel Fifty...
...particularly supportive. Not across the board, but they were all kind of like, "He treats you so well, and he's so rich. What are you doing?" It was just amazing to see these very sophisticated, independent women kind of reduced to something out of a Jane Austen novel. (See pictures of Those Things Money...