Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pointed wisps of hair, a straight nose, and thin lips. Silhouettes of black figures are cut with rounded bumps for hair, or twisted plaits, with rounded noses, and large, often open-hanging lips. The figures look like neither real people nor caricatures, but like characters in some Southern plantation novel that takes itself quite seriously. The silhouette of a white man in a three piece suit and fluffy tie stands under a tree with his hands resting on the shoulder of a young white boy, who holds a flower and looks up toward the sky. A big-bottomed black girl...
SHOULD WINCurtis Hanson for L.A. Confidential, who also had a hand in writing (or at least adapting) the script from Ellroy's classic novel--with much better success, complemented by crisp, savvy direction...
...Ruth's assistance, Lisa begins to get her stories published, and what has evolved into a comfortable, friendly working relationship takes a new turn. Though Ruth admits that she is somewhat uncomfortable with Lisa's success, the tension doesn't really bubble to the surface until Lisa writes a novel based on her teacher's life, centering around a secret affair Ruth had in her youth with the legendary poet Delmore Schwartz...
...raises. Writing a two-character work provides Margulies the opportunity to flesh out realistically complex personalities, and the dilemma that results from the course of their relationship has no easy solution. The play asks, who has the right to turn a person's life into fiction? Is Lisa's novel about Ruth's life an act of love or a "theft" of stories which she has no right to appropriate? The answers to these questions are further complicated by statements which Ruth makes early in the play about having a "need" to write certain stories, no matter whom they hurt...
...compress his belief system into simple, easy-to-swallow sound bites for mass consumption: "The future is fake" "Everybody's lying." "Stop breathing." "Progress is over." Rather than spreading his doctrine with letter bombs and threats of destruction, he might instead have devised a quirky, culture-savvy, pink-jacketed novel about the end of the world. He might very well have penned something like Douglas Coupland's latest novel, Girlfriend in a Coma...