Word: novels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COST OF LIVING LIKE THIS, by James Kennaway. An intense and coldly realistic novel about a man's coming to terms with two women who love him and the cancer that is pinching off his life...
John Huston, one formerly to whom much honor was due, filmed this woeful tale and even subjected his own daughter to it. Dale Wasserman set it down in words taken by Hans Koningsberger from his own novel, perhaps with a broadsword. Moshe Dayan's son traveled all the way from Israel to take part. These all have conspired together to produce this thing, and all must share equally in the blame. There is, truly, more than sufficient for each...
...Friends signals the contemporary student filmmaker's interest in novel visual interpretation, but underscores their need to-acquire a sense of theater as well...
Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player, for example, takes much of its style and action form the American gangster film. His Farenbeit 451 is adapted from a second-rate novel and takes after the sci-fi films of the fifties. The Bride Wore Black is a product of Truffaut's consuming interest in the films of Alfred Hitchcock, to whom the film is dedicated and the imitation detracts from the individuality of the film...
Dislocated Neck. Turning such fantasies into real history had to wait until Antonia had finished secondary school at the rather precocious age of 15, spent two years dabbling at novel writing and then read history at Oxford. After her marriage at 23-in a replica of Mary Stuart's first bridal headdress -she warmed up with some children's books and A History of Toys...