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...Deng eventually made his way to the United States, where he and Eggers met and became friends. Their conversations together are the basis for Eggers' remarkable new novel What Is the What (McSweeney's Books; available Oct. 25), which takes the form of a fictionalized version of Deng's life story. In this exclusive excerpt, Deng silently addresses a young boy who is helping to burglarize his apartment. How do you make another human understand that you were a child of war? "Picture your neighborhood," Deng thinks, "and now see the women screaming, the babies tossed into wells. Watch your...
...Carrie”—the 1988 Broadway musical adaptation of Stephen King’s horror novel and the 1972 Brian de Palma film of the same title—is widely considered one of the greatest flops in theater history. Instead of Sissy Spacek’s face covered in pig’s blood, the theater audience was treated to Betty Buckley (“Cats”) in red paint, which New York Times reviewer Frank Rich ’71 compared to “strawberry ice-cream topping.” Rich...
Thus, the play’s creators set out with an unenviable task: create a musical about the best novel about music, find an actor to match the classic lovable jerk who is Cusack’s trademark, and craft scenes that evoke such pathos as Black’s finale performance of “Let’s Get it On.” The play’s book, written by David Lindsay-Abaire, abridges and bastardizes Hornby’s work; the cast, directed by Walter Bobbie, lacks any semblance of vocal or acting talent...
Adapted from George Plimpton’s 1997 novel “Truman Capote” by writer/director Douglas McGrath (“Emma”), “Infamous” covers the same ground as “Capote,” but does so at a fanciful, almost comical pace...
...train bound for the town. Though his initial intent is to write an article for The New Yorker, Capote finds ample material for an entire book; the rest of the movie focuses on his obsessive drive to create “a new type of non-fiction” novel...