Word: olen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many DTV veterans are frustrated. "The market has gotten tougher and tougher," says superhack Fred Olen Ray (Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers, Bad Girls from Mars), who last week started directing his sixth film this year. "Nowadays, you have to do more for less money to make less money. Genres like vampire films and erotic thrillers and cyborg takeoffs of Terminator are all dead...
...eight students who will proselytize in locations across the globe are Jonathan G. Brinton, Olen J. Redhair, Russell G. Ross, James H. Gallafent, Kent M. Walther, Israel I. De Anda, Wells I. Mangrum and Rich...
Writer Robert Olen Butler comes into this long, claustrophobic novel of erotic obsession with a powerful charge of literary momentum, including a Pulitzer Prize last year for a fine short story collection, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain. He's still on his feet at the end of They Whisper (Holt; 333 pages; $22.50), but he's moving slowly, like a man who has just bushwhacked through 20 miles of tidal marsh and who needs a hot shower and breakfast. Guessing how this valiant effort will be received is chancy. Is a reader close enough to the hero...
...were allegations that the Times applied last-minute pressure to the Pulitzer jury. David McCullough won the biography prize for Truman, the book that triggered the "I'm Truman . . . No, I'm Truman" cross talk during last year's presidential campaign. A surprise came with an award to Robert Olen Butler for his short-story collection seen through the eyes of exiled Vietnamese, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain. And playwright Tony Kushner was cited for Angels in America: Millennium Approaches, his epic about aids and the American soul. Kushner released a statement that read in part: "FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABULOUS...
...chieftains are ostensibly tightening their belts, these films are relatively cheap to produce. Moreover, the town's eye is fixed on the lucrative Asian market, which devours ghost stories with fervor. "The Japanese love ghosts and robots. Certain cultures believe in the afterlife more than we do," explains Fred Olen Ray, president of American Independent Productions, which made Spirits, a low-budget picture, starring Erik Estrada, that will be released this summer...