Word: screenplays
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...fanatics, "Ghost World," has become the most anticipated movie of the summer. Sweat beads pop from their brows. They chew their lower lip and stare into space because fans of Dan Clowes, who created "Ghost World" as a series in his comicbook "Eightball," and who co-wrote the screenplay, are pessimists by definition. It really could be awful. Well folks, you can now unclench your nervous fists about any "Hollywood bastardization" and get ready to enjoy a nearly perfect cinematic adaptation of Clowes' cranky spirit...
...complications from kidney cancer; in Montreal. Richler's first acclaimed novel, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959), about an ambitious Jewish boy clawing his way out of working-class Montreal, was turned into a movie with Richard Dreyfuss in 1974 and earned Richler an Oscar nomination for the screenplay. He also wrote prolifically on such political topics as the Quebec separatist movement, scoffing at the law banning exterior signs in any language but French as "linguistic cleansing." His novels Cocksure (1968) and St. Urbain's Horseman (1971) both won the Governor General's Literary Award, Canada's highest writing prize...
...Writes screenplay for director Karel Reisz's The French Lieutenant's Woman, starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons...
...Pinter's first original screenplay, The Servant, begins a fruitful collaboration with movie director Joseph Losey...
...closer to your sensibilities than my own.'" Once Spielberg began work on the film, at the behest of the director's widow Christiane and her brother, Kubrick's producer Jan Harlan, "I felt that Stanley really hadn't died, that he was with me when I was writing the screenplay and shooting the movie...