Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ideas for Amistad was getting some traction, novelist BARBARA CHASE-RIBOUD got stuck in her own little plagiarism mess. A New York Times reporter doing research on eunuchs (hey, they've got a lot of sections to fill now) discovered that one chapter in Chase-Riboud's Valide: A Novel of the Harem has seven instances--some as many as 600 words in length--lifted directly from a 1936 nonfiction work on harems. Chase-Riboud is continuing her $10 million lawsuit...
Everywhere, yesterday's trash culture was exhumed and hauled to new frontiers, in architecture (Coney Island replicated in Las Vegas) and astrogeology (a Martian rock dubbed Scooby Doo). Our critics select a film of a '90s novel set in 1953 and a musical of a '70s novel set in 1906 as the year's best. And what is The X-Files if not a canny updating of '50s bomb sweat? "No matter how paranoid you are," the show tells us, "you're not paranoid enough...
...Hollywood's minor vices. But--a point usually missed--the style was never an end in itself. At its best it conveyed an idea about how the rottenness of big cities touches everyone, high and low, respectable and raffish. Director Curtis Hanson, working off James Ellroy's bitterly brewed novel about corrupt 1950s cops, gets that wonderfully right in a smart, complex film that exuberantly mixes comic excess, melodramatic pressure, romantic rue and an almost casual murderousness...
...Mill on the Floss Ah, if only all Sunday-night TV movies dealing with women in peril could be as subtly haunting as this PBS version of George Eliot's 1860 novel. The filmed story of Maggie Tulliver (played by Emily Watson) features no stalkers, mind you, but evokes poetically the inescapable dangers of possessing a divided heart...
...RAGTIME The musical version of E.L. Doctorow's best-selling novel could have been a high-minded bore, a musical for people who hate musicals. Or, given all the promotional hype (the show has been trumpeted seemingly since the Ice Age), another mega-disappointment. In fact, it turns out to be a landmark American musical. Doctorow's turn-of-the-century tapestry, mixing fact and fiction, has been expertly refashioned for the stage by playwright Terrence McNally; director Frank Galati has showcased it in a crisp and beautiful production; the score by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty gets better with...