Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...painful experience," he recalls. "We were on location for six months, the weather was awful, we were running out of money, and the sets were underwater. It was Apocalypse Now in Malta." Subsequent films were a little like Stardom When? The World According to Garp domesticated John Irving's novel and neutered Williams' wild talent. The Survivors set him up as the butt of a gun-crazy satire. Moscow on the Hudson gave him a Russian accent, at least, but too often the movie went soft, like spun-sugar quicksand. In The Best of Times, Williams went Chaplinesque -- Geraldine, alas...
...novel is considerably better than that bleak forecast promises. Certain scenes are vivid and memorable; a zeppelin raid over London achieves an eerie, horrifying beauty. And as the brothers' paths diverge in the 1920s, Deighton skillfully displays the tangled politics and passions that were leading Germany toward another disaster...
...relatively painless way to absorb a great deal of information. Those who feel guilty wasting their time on made-up stories can assuage their consciences with Deighton's exhaustive supply of names, dates and places that mattered. Or they might wait for the mini-series for which this sprawling novel seems tailor-made...
...late Primo Levi' s last work calmly but eloquently preserves the memory of Nazi evil. -- A Len Deighton novel without suspense...
...Nicholson gives the viewer no reason to follow Francis into the cemetery of all souls. But the actor is to be blamed only in believing that this role, robbed of its festering spiritual vitality, could ever come to instructive life. That life teems in the pages of Kennedy's novel -- an American Lower Depths. This Ironweed is the lower shallows...