Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then came the war, Mailer bet that Europe would be the stage for the great war novel, but the army put him in the South Pacific--giving him, he later said, the best backrop for The Naked and the Dead. Mailer came to feel that a war novel about Europe would have to include a good deal of commentary about the decline of its civilization; in the Pacific, he found that he could write about the American military in isolation...
Among the holdings of the late actor-director Gregory Rattoff were the movie rights to a little spy novel entitled Casino Royale, which Rattoff's heirs transferred to producer Charles K. (What's New, Pussycat?) Feldmann, who in turn gave it the full treatment: half a dozen directors, an equivalent number of writers, one of the most star-studded casts in years, and a budget that would make many a small nation choke in envy...
...Novel: A short story padded...
...terrace. As a result, she loses her job, her fiance, and attempts suicide. A "human interest" newspaper account of her plight brings other characters scurrying to pry out their share of the secret. An aging writer thinks the governess' story might make a good plot for his next novel. Her ex-fiance throws himself at her feet, in the belief that she tried to commit suicide out of love for him. Her former employer, the father of the dead child, turns out to have been her adulterous lover. In this play, more nearly than in any other dramatic work...
Books by convicts always have a certain curiosity value, if not a literary one. But this first novel by a British prisoner serving a life sentence for murder rises above its origins. The publishers will say nothing about the author, who uses the pen name Zeno (borrowed from the founder of Stoic philosophy), except that at various times he was a sailor, a soldier, a farmer and a timber merchant. More to the point, he was a World War II parachutist with the British 1st Airborne Division, which was trapped and methodically riddled to pieces at the Battle of Arnhem...