Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Connor, elder brother of singer Sinead, is a writer of some renown in his native Ireland. His first novel was short-listed for the Whitbread Prize, and a collection of his journalism was an Irish bestseller for three months. His published work encompasses everything from biography to travel writing. Red Roses and Petrol, his first play, centers on the death of Enda (Brian Scally), patriarch of a small clan, which reunites his scattered family for two maudlin days. His widow Moya (Sarah deLima) and his daughter Medbh (Eileen Nugent), coping with his sudden absence from the house, are joined...
Streamlining Henry James's notoriously dense novel, this film brings its melodramatic and erotic undertones to the forefront. A well-bred but impoverished English girl (Helena Bonham-Carter), secretly engaged to an equally impecunious journalist (Linus Roache), persuades her lover to pay court to a young American heiress dying of TB (Alison Elliott). The plot thickens as the three take a pleasure trip to Venice. The close-up cinematography brings out the superb performances of the three stars--especially Bonham-Carter, who brilliantly captures her character's complexities...
Jennifer Jason Leigh is perfectly cast in Agnieszka Holland's adaptation of Henry James's novel. An awkward young woman starved for affection is caught between a cynical, distant father and a spirited but selfish young suitor. Holland's camera work and sense of period are engaging throughout, and her trademark comic acuity leavens the somber arc of the story. Eventually, Leigh asserts herself just long enough to break your heart. Like its heroine, the film misses true magnificence, but its intelligent cast and sensitive story-telling are more than enough to recommend...
...screen. George wants to recreate the time when "men were men and women were broads but 'broad' was a compliment." Which may be the most honest section of the article. The vision of masculinity that Clooney tries to embody is a fiction of the screen and the novel, circa the 1950s, a disembodied and dangerous ideal-type of what it is to be a real...
Earlier, Dunne's wife Ellen, whom he remained very close to despite their divorce, had contracted multiple sclerosis. Then, shortly after his move to New York City, his daughter was killed. "If I had been drinking when that happened..." he says, his voice trailing off. His first novel failed, but his second, The Two Mrs. Grenvilles, became a best seller; he covered the Von Bulow trial, and his second career was launched...