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...Many of these have been collected into his 40-plus books on film. But on this five-foot shelf there are also an Ebert novel, Behind the Phantom's Mask (begun as a weekly newspaper serial); a travel book, Perfect London Walk, written with Daniel Curley; The Computer Insectiary: A Field Guide to Viruses, Bugs, Worms, Trojan Horses, and Other Stuff That Will Eat Your Programs and Rot Your Brain, co-authored with John Kratz; and at least five other books to which Roger has penned introductions. There's no writer's block for this perpetual scribe; he's never...
...best-read people I know. But he's as insatiable a reader as he is a writer. The time he's spent watching movies, and thinking and writing about them, is only a sensible portion of his sentient life. He seems to have consumed every English-language novel written in the 19th century, and many from the centuries before and after. And somehow he retains it all. He has a memory that's both photographic (enabling him to recall virtually every shot from every film he's seen) and phonographic. On one indelible occasion at the 2002 Floating Film Festival...
...subject you can build a brand on. Stephen Carter is a Yale law professor turned novelist whose first book--The Emperor of Ocean Park, a huge best seller--confirmed what many had long suspected: that there are in fact people who are rich and black. His second novel, New England White (Knopf; 558 pages), expands on those initial findings...
TRANSYLVANIA LEGEND: The first of many films officially based on Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, the 1931 version of Dracula, with Bela Lugosi in the title role, became an instant classic. The film's horrific scenes allegedly caused audience members to faint at the premiere...
GOTH FAVORITE: A love triangle between a doctor and a blood-drinking couple is the focus of the 1983 film The Hunger, based on Whitley Strieber's novel. Not well received at first, the modern, glamorous spin on vampires has given the movie a cult following today...