Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trip into Oliver Stone's brain. It's a jungle in there, luscious, overgrown, drenched in sensuality and high seriosity, alive with death. The Vietnam of his mind is "waisthigh in vegetation," as Stone writes in his novel A Child's Night Dream (St. Martin's Press; 236 pages; $21.95). "Green with...
...have to wait for a tell-all book about U Turn, which John Ridley adapted from his novel Stray Dogs. The movie dwells in the dry heat of Superior, Ariz., a town halfway between Phoenix and Hades. As Bobby Cooper (Sean Penn) speeds through in his '64-and-a-half Mustang convertible, a vulture picks at the carcass of a canine that looks meaner than the bird; even the victims here wear a scowl. That's Bobby: a part-time tennis player, full-time weasel who kicks cats and isn't much nicer to humans...
...other hand, it obviously wasn't Vonnegut's intention to create a fine, textured novel. He speaks of Timequake not so much as an opus unto itself, but as the final chapter in a body of work that spans three decades and eighteen books, all of them still in print. He notes that, unlike the many writers of his generation, he has lived to a ripe old age. "I got to look back," he crowed at the Brattle, "And I feel lucky as hell." In the course of "looking back" through the lens of Timequake, he covers...
Volunteers can coach any sport, from the traditional to the novel. Hochman said that there is currently double-Dutch coach in New York City...
Oliver Stone addressed a jam-packed audience at the Harvard Film Archive last Thursday evening as part of a grueling publicity tour for both his new movie U-Turn and his newly released first novel, A Child's Night Dream. Reflecting all of the off-putting frankness and none of the feistiness of his carefully sculpted press persona, Stone treated the audience to an uneven but occasionally fascinating hour and a half...