Word: paperboy
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
Dexter no longer has to write on deadline for pay, although he keeps his hand in at his old trade by turning out a weekly syndicated column for the Sacramento Bee. And as his fifth novel, The Paperboy (Random House; 307 pages; $23), demonstrates, he remains intriguedand a little appalledby journalistic ethics and the lack thereof...
...making is hip, hard-boiled and filled with memorable eccentrics. The reporters' encounters with members of the Van Wetter clan comicallyand ominouslyjuxtapose modern types with people ancient in their cunning and evil. The novel's conclusion feels a bit hasty; but for much of its length, The Paperboy burns with the phosphorescent atmosphere of betrayal...