Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...PHRASE] Love story from Peter Carey's prize novel...
Jewish mysticism dates far back into antiquity, but the Kabbalah ("received" teachings) crystallized with the Zohar, the 13th century masterpiece set down in ancient Aramaic by the Spanish Jew Moses de Leon. Superficially, the book was a mystical novel, a kind of Celestine Prophecy precursor. But initiates knew better. Shrouded in its story lines were the keys to unlock the Hebrew Bible--and hence all existence. Whereas standard rabbinic Judaism sometimes seems to look backward to God's most intimate interactions with his chosen people and forward to a Messiah, Kabbalah stresses the Deity's presence as immediate...
...manifold ambiguities and contradictions of human behavior. A similar task awaits whoever gets to adjudicate a recently filed lawsuit alleging that Spielberg and his colleagues are, to put it baldly, plagiarists--that they swiped their vision of the Amistad tale from Echo of Lions, a little-known historical novel by Barbara Chase-Riboud...
...awfully tough. "This is the most egregious case I've ever seen," says Chase-Riboud's attorney, who is asking for $10 million in damages and threatening to seek an injunction to block the film's release. Spielberg's lawyer retorts that the plaintiff is "nuts" and that her novel is "wordy, dull, confusing and phony." So there...
...Hollywood history: In 1984, convinced that the Amistad episode would make a great film, Debbie Allen, the actress (Fame) and choreographer (numerous Academy Award shows), optioned a historical novel about the case, Black Mutiny. After nearly 10 years of making no headway with the project, she took it to DreamWorks SKG, the fledgling studio founded by Spielberg with Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen...