Word: sebold
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...life, Gosling answers questions about his romance with his Notebook co-star, Rachel McAdams, by shaking his head as if at a naughty child. Sex appeal, says Gosling, who's gotten doughy and scruffy to play a grief-stricken young father in Peter Jackson's adaptation of the Alice Sebold novel The Lovely Bones, is the problem with male actors today. "The only really good performances out right now are female performances," he says, citing Cate Blanchett in I'm Not There and Marion Cotillard in La Vie en Rose. "Guys are really dropping the ball. I think...
...hope it encourages the small but determined school of writers who are carefully, lovingly grafting the prose craft of the literary heap onto the sinewy, satisfying plots of the trashy one to produce hybrid novels that offer the pleasures of both. Writers like Donna Tartt and Alice Sebold, Neal Stephenson and Iain Banks, Jonathan Lethem and Margaret Atwood, writers whose work will most likely define--more than anything by brilliant mandarins like Wallace or Franzen--what will be known to later generations as the 21st century novel. The next literary wave will come not from above but from below, from...
Somewhere deep in the publishing mills of New York City, an editor is massaging his (or probably her) pale, prominent brow and asking, "How the hell did I do that?" That person is the editor of Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones, a beautiful, sensitive, melancholy novel of exactly the sort that's usually overlooked by the reading public. Except that it wasn't. The Lovely Bones inspired immoderately enthusiastic reviews (including one from this reviewer), sold more than 2 million copies and levitated onto the best-seller lists, where it still sits a year later...
...dead-girl motif surfaced most poetically in publishing's surprise sensation of the year, Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones. In its bravura opening, the narrator, Susie Salmon, lucidly describes her brutal rape-murder at age 14, then goes on (telling the story from heaven) to show us the slow journey of her family and friends to recover from her loss. (This is not only a 2002 phenomenon, of course. The Sixth Sense and Crossing Over with John Edward both indulged our need to believe that our lost ones are still aware and, more important, still aware of us.) Women...
...also want to make films people want to go and see," she says. "I don't see myself as being élitist in any respect." Ramsay isn't waiting around to see whether Morvern Caller will be her breakthrough movie; she's already writing an adaptation of Alice Sebold's runaway best-seller The Lovely Bones, which is due to begin shooting next summer. She remains unperturbed by the recent collapse of the production house that commissioned her for the job. It's just another extraordinary situation, calling for unconventional action. Ramsay will know what...