Word: novelizations
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Before Erich W. Segal ’58 penned the romantic novel “Love Story”—the iconic tale of a Harvard man and Radcliffe woman who fall for each other—he wrote notes for his roommates to express his creativity...
...After pitching the screenplay to several movie producers, his literary agent, Lois K. Wallace, who worked at the William Morris Agency at the time and who had first met Segal at Harvard summer school in 1959, suggested that he turn it into a novel...
...audiences," says Kahl. "We don't want to talk down to the hard-core fans, but we also can't alienate first-time viewers." Also, the network isn't exactly offering the sport prime real estate on the schedule, though CBS insists this is the best way to ease novel programming into the mainstream. "Because it's new, Saturday nights is a way for us to dip our toe in water," says Kahl. "Saturday night fights just felt right. And the whole idea of trying to revitalize the night is appealing...
...first time in 21 years to a French film: Laurent Cantet's Entre les Murs (The Class), which traces a year in a Paris junior-high class. This judicious, quietly touching film was made with nonprofessional actors, including the teacher, François Bégaudeau, on whose memoir-novel the film is based. When the unanimous award was announced, Cantet, Bégaudeau and the rainbow coalition of kids all swarmed onstage for an ecstatic reunion...
Bristling with code names like "Clipper" and "Rheingold," Germany's latest corporate scandal seems like the stuff of a Cold War espionage novel. But as merely the latest in a series of corporate shenanigans, it may actually reflect the newly sordid style of business at Germany...