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Susan Eloise Hinton, 34, wrote the novel when she was a 16-year-old Tulsa schoolgirl. "I was reading horse books then," says Hinton, who started using her initials so boys would also read her works. To date, her four gritty novels have sold 7 million copies, and all are in some stage of development for films. Francis Ford Coppola has finished shooting The Outsiders, and is currently making Rumble Fish. That Was Then, This Is Now has been optioned; Tex, starring Teen Idol Matt Dillon, has been released by Walt Disney Productions. The married Hinton, who owns a horse...
...denounce the doctors who misdiagnosed her pregnancy, or argue with a sister, or even question the motives of her loving husband (Joseph Campanella, strong, caring and comfortable in the role). Then those translucent eyes can light with pain and determination. The mouth can fix in its querulous schoolgirl smile. The rage can break - and Redgrave come alive. It may not be Jean Brodie, but it is surely prime- By Richard Corliss
Read never allows Milson's ordeal to stray into abstractions. His characters talk about history and ethics, but they enact them as well. Questions blossom from events. Why is Ludley methodically drinking himself to death? Why does his wife want him to sleep with Helen, a runaway English schoolgirl who has fetched up at the villa? And why is Ludley, who once spouted Nietzsche and spurned conventional behavior, resisting...
...another woman, and François, hoping to prove to Anne that the flyer is two-timing her, becomes profoundly interested in his new role as amateur detective. Eventually he is proved wrong again, but luckily for him, his odd behavior attracts the interest of Lucie, an adolescent schoolgirl (Anne-Laure Meury), who is chipper, commonsensical and utterly charming-the larky heart of the film. For her, his obsession is a game, something to engage her imagination more sportively than the German grammar she's supposed to be studying that afternoon in the park...
Raised in suburban Detroit, Runkle never abandoned the standard schoolgirl passion for horses. She took her veterinary degree at Michigan State University in 1976, and found a job with Dr. Mark Gerard, a noted racehorse vet in New York...