Word: novelizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Joyner said that she intends to pursue a career in writing--she has already written 10 children's books--and acting. Her immediate post-retirement plans include writing an athletic novel, portraying a "female 007 character" in the movies, and appearing in two television shows...
...absurdist nightmare, a story that all but defied the Western imagination. A middle-aged author, born in Bombay but for many years resident in London, writes a long, sardonic novel, by turns philosophical and comic and fantastic. In the book's opening scene, two middle-aged Indian actors fall 29,002 feet from a jetliner that has just been exploded by terrorists over the English Channel. They have an animated conversation as they hurtle toward earth; they land safely, but then their troubles begin anew. Along the way, the author writes about his schooling and young adulthood in Britain, about...
...Muslim, I think it should be banned as hate-writing and slanderous in nature."--Dhrusheed Imam '90, the president of the Harvard Islamic Society, on Salman Rushdie's novel, Satanic Verses...
...play Pelle from an audition against 4000 other young actors. Before the filming of Pelle, he had never acted before and was chosen to audition based on a photograph sent to the producers of the movie. Interestingly enough, his mother named him for the lead character of Nexo's novel while she was still pregnant...
...blending of impressionistic cinematography with the realism of the harsh farm life, paired with a character study script, that make Pelle the Conqueror a 19th century novel on screen...