Word: novels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hope that someday, you'll be close to director like that. When Burton first cast Michael Keaton as Batman, people were like, Mr. Mom as Batman, Come on! But I think Keaton is now regarded as the best Batman ever... and when you think about Ichabod Crane, in the novel, he's this gangly, thin, gawky, awkward-looking man with a big nose and big ears. In the novel, Christina Ricci (Katrina Van Tassel) flirts with him to make me jealous and to get my character to marry her, and it works; Brom ends up marrying her in the book...
...Jane Fonda, then for Whoopi Goldberg (though the film wasn't made), then they asked him to direct Sister Act, First Wives Club, Runaway Bride and, he says, "anything with drag queens." But though he hopes to make a film soon in Florida, based on Pete Dexter's novel The Paperboy, Almodovar's roots are deep in the Iberian psyche. He has never filmed outside Spain. Indeed, he hadn't shot outside Madrid until he made All About My Mother, set mostly in Barcelona...
...phenomenon is influencing historical fiction. Even men are catching on to the imaginative possibilities. Earlier this year Ron Hansen dug deep for Hitler's Niece, a novel that cast the teenage Geli Rabaul as Lolita to the Fuhrer's Humbert Humbert...
...This novel has pretensions, but they are overridden by Allende's riproaring girl's adventure story. In fact, the book exemplifies the new feminist approach by plugging late 20th century cultural attitudes into a spacious 19th century literary vehicle. Like Una Spencer, Eliza Sommers makes her way in the world by cross-dressing. She befriends a Chinese healer who becomes her confidant, her partner in an alternative-medicine practice and eventually her soul mate for life. Throughout it all, Allende projects a woman's point of view with confidence, control and an expansive definition of romance as a fact...
...HEAD, YOUR ARM Why would anyone take hair from a man's head and grow it on a woman's arm? To advance science--and maybe a new treatment for baldness. In a novel experiment, researchers removed patches of a man's scalp--hair, roots and follicles--and transplanted them onto the forearm of an unrelated woman. The patches took root and after more than two months showed no signs of rejection. This suggests it may someday be possible to cover bald spots with a full head of hair from someone with hair to spare...