Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anything but a gaga post-teen now, though she is counted a member of the group of kinda talented, kinda famous young actors somewhat unfairly called the Brat Pack. She needs only a few credits for her bachelor's degree at the University of Southern California. A partly written novel lies fallow. Good sense rules her life, though she has been known to wander off go- cart driving with Brat Packers Emilio Estevez and Judd Nelson (respectively, the jock and the punk of The Breakfast Club, and the waiter and Sheedy's lover of the hanging-out-after-college film...
Maureen Howard's fifth novel offers far less bitterness than its premise promises. Her heroine will not be content with simply calling up the past and assessing blame. Margaret wants to make amends for her own mistakes, in her life and in her books. She is also willing to go to extraordinary lengths to stay alive...
...first husband, appears in the narrative in three incarnations. He is the young doctor pursuing a brilliant future while his equally young wife sells her first book and discovers his infidelity with a night nurse. He is then the aggrieved ex-husband, complaining that Margaret's popular second novel, a "revenge tragedy" about their broken marriage, has damaged his reputation. And he is also the man, now a respected heart surgeon and administrator in Baltimore, to whom Margaret runs with a plea for a second opinion and chance: "Give me borrowed time, six months the way they do in bogus...
Endless Love, Scott Spencer's third novel, produced the stuff of most writers' daydreams. Although not all reviewers loved its explicit portrayal of obsessive passion, the book sold well, developed a cult following among young people and some of their elders, and in 1981 was made into a bad but attention-getting movie starring Brooke Shields. Such pleasurable success also breeds pressure. Endless Love was not, as publishers like to announce, long awaited. Waking the Dead...
There is nothing novel about a news organization acceding to ground rules in pursuit of a story, and that includes pledging not to disclose details of where interviews took place. Most reporters also seem to shy away from any definitive prohibition on interviewing fugitives, even those wanted for murder. "We as journalists don't see ourselves as an extension of any law- enforcement agency," says John Seigenthaler, editorial page editor of USA Today. "What the journalist has to consider is whether the information to be gained is so vital that it tips the scale in favor of granting protection...