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...happy with the final product, despite changes made to his screenplay; on the contrary, he seems to welcome anything he sees as an improvement: “I thought that he [director Nick Cassavetes] did some very good things—I don’t mind being rewritten if it’s better, I can learn from it. I’m very happy with the film...
...more cheerful. History classes with Sillery were a form of academic boot camp—rigorous, tiring, occasionally dispiriting, but highly beneficial in the long-run. Usually the papers she gave back were covered—and I mean covered—in green ink. She had essentially rewritten my essays, removing all the fluff and the pretentious (mixed) metaphors, leaving behind passable pieces of work. “Your writing suffers from adverbial overkill,” she explained. “And one day perhaps you’ll learn, as George Orwell once said...
...online investigative-media outlet that managed to film several officials taking bribes, was shut down, and a systematic campaign of harassment let loose against its employees and investors. Individual Hindus have employed strong-arm tactics against Christian missionaries and burned down churches. And school history textbooks have been rewritten to depict India's medieval history as a long saga of unending Muslim barbarism. As Neeladri Bhattacharya, professor of modern Indian history at Jawaharlal Nehru University, noted in an article published last year, so inaccurate are the new textbooks that they represent nothing less than "declarations of war against academic history...
...ignored; what seem in retrospect to be glaring inconsistencies in his stories were regarded as true and valid by some of the biggest names in the field. Other stories that seemed legit at the time--the rescue of Jessica Lynch springs to mind--became so amended, corrected, spun or rewritten that even now it's a little hard to remember what the truth of the matter finally was. We were all convinced that Captain James Yee, the Muslim military chaplain at Guantanamo Bay, had been secreting classified documents in his luggage and possibly spying for Syria. That is, until...
...income. In the 1940s he wrote 11 novels; Hollywood filmed eight of them within three years of their publication. True, Woolrich was not consulted when screenwriters gave his plots different endings (?No Man of Her Own?), different murderers (?Black Angel?). Authors rarely were then. Shakespeare and the Bible got rewritten with the same blithe abandon...