Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COLD BLOOD. Capote's nonfiction novel has, in the hands of Director Richard Brooks, become a first-rate movie although it suffers, ironically, from self-conscious filmishness...
...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Ingrid Bergman, Yves Montand and Tony Perkins form the lovers' triangle in Goodbye Again (1961), based on a novel by Francoise Sagan...
...leading Negro writer before his death in 1960 at the age of 52. It is difficult to overestimate the impact of Native Son, the story of Bigger Thomas, a Negro youth who responds to the psychological pressures of racialism by killing two women. In that best-selling novel, Wright plowed up buried fears and guilts and gave millions of white Americans their first raw whiff of "The Problem...
...Bluebottle, a 1962 novel about an intellectual's disenchantment with contemporary life in Russia, Valeriy Tarsis mercilessly unstitched the britches of Soviet Communism-and let the whole world watch them come down. For slipping the book out of the country and having it published abroad, Tarsis was sent to the loony bin. After six months he was released and in 1965 came Ward 7 (also shipped out and published abroad), in which Tarsis made it clear that only in a madhouse can a Russian speak his mind. This time he was allowed to leave Russia. But while...
Mother India has played auntie to many orphaned spirits. Christopher Isherwood, the Beatles, Mia Sinatra: the list lengthens every year. The latest addition is Paul Fraser, the tall, blue-eyed New Yorker who is the troubled protagonist of this novel. At 46, Paul is a successful playwright and lover but, alas, a spiritual cipher. And after botching a suicide attempt, he drifts off to India-where Author Brown feels thoroughly at home...