Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Enter Laughing. Carl Reiner's autobiographical novel about a stage-struck Jewish boy's first taste of ham was one of the delights of Broadway in 1963, thanks to Joseph Stein's knowing dramatization and to a winning performance by Alan Arkin as the fumbling hero. Now Reiner has directed a film version that sticks closely to the words of the play but destroys much of its sly insight into the dawning of awareness in darkest Bronx...
Beach Red. Peter Bowman's moving free-verse novel about a Marine detachment on a World War II Pacific beach head was an understated masterpiece. In turning it into a film, however, Actor-Director Cornel Wilde has under lined its import so heavily as to convert Bowman's subtle poetry into monumental mawkishness. The message, that war is hell and soldiers are better off holding hands with the girls back home, is pounded out with a naivete beyond belief...
...TIME in 1929, was co-managing editor from 1937 to 1941 (he coined the term World War II) before becoming managing editor of the March of Time from 1941 to 1946, then joined Newsweek as a senior editor and six years later retired to write fiction, producing three novels, including Tower in the West, a parable of brotherly love, which won the 1957 Harper novel prize; of a stroke; in Siasconset, Mass...
...blue movies and happenings. They showed a clear, candid mind, especially quick at spotting new trends. Her 1964 essay, "Notes on 'Camp,' " is a minor classic, a sharp, entertaining catalogue that did much to popularize-and overpopularize-the Ins and Outs of the camp phenomenon. Her one novel in those days was The Benefactor (TIME, Sept. 13, 1963), an opaque tale about a dandified dreamer who cannot figure out whether he killed his wife in a nightmare or in cold blood. Death Kit is much the same. The hero is a junior executive named Diddy, and the question...
Death Kit unfortunately contains the blunted instruments of the avant-garde movement and Freudian criticism. The novel is studded with little messages to critics and longhairs that Something Is Going On: the word now usually appears in parentheses; passages of various sorts are indented; there are interruptions for long Dos Passos-like lists that, unlike her enumerations of the artifacts of camp, don't add up. Worst of all, there are dreams-long, logical un-dreamlike dreams that exhaust the read er even faster than they do Diddy. Yet for all its flights, most of the writing is conventional...