Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Charley Matthews is in Paris because he is a molester of sorts. He left his wife for a former chorus girl and then wrote a cheesy though popular novel that turned his ex-spouse into the injuring party. His French editor wants to publish the book, which the not-too-subtle translator says will be better in French...
...brings a fresh and unambivalent eye to experience. Unlike the other two novellas in this collection, Jealous never bogs down in the bottomless gender swamp. In fact, the trip with Aunt Doris reads like a first stop in what could have been (or might become) a rousing American road novel...
...will be clear to anyone, including this reviewer, who knew the author's family when she was a child, models for the fictional characters in Martha McPhee's novel, Bright Angel Time (Random House; 244 pages; $23), were found close to home. Her father, the writer John McPhee, who has written several books on geology, is detectable in lightest disguise as a professor of geology, and the author herself is surely the youngest of several daughters (three in the novel, four in real life), the bemused eight-year-old narrator, Kate...
...author and the theater mogul first met three years ago for lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York City. E.L. Doctorow was impressed, first of all, that Garth Drabinsky--the Canadian producer who wanted to turn his novel Ragtime into a musical--agreed with him about the 1981 movie version: they both disliked it. He was impressed too that Drabinsky seemed to have read the book closely and thought about it deeply. "He's an interesting amalgam of old-time entrepreneurial showman and genuine theater enthusiast," says Doctorow. "He has real taste. And he's not afraid...
...decisions at Miramax, and that when he snapped his fingers, HARVEY WEINSTEIN jumped." A spokesperson for Tarantino says he has read some of the book, and many of the anecdotes are inaccurate. Stone's rep says he has "skimmed" the volume, and is more concerned about his own novel coming out this fall...