Word: writes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lean was preparing to return to the screen. "I was immediately interested," says Cocks, who first observed Lean at work in 1969 on the set of Ryan's Daughter. "Lean is one of the world's greatest directors, and I was desperate to get a chance to write about him." Last month Cocks flew to London to attend an exclusive screening of the finished movie. He was joined by Senior Editor Martha Duffy, who edited the cover, and Contributor Richard Schickel, who reviewed the film. "I've never written a story for TIME that...
...defense spending and adds, "Most people with their feet in concrete are dead at the bottom of the river." A White House staff member concedes that "the question is whether we are part of the process" or whether Congress will simply ignore Reagan's budget and proceed to write...
...never write again!" his literary agent said. But seven years after disappearing behind Gethsemani's walls, Merton produced The Seven Storey Mountain. The autobiography of conversion sold 300,000 copies in less than a year (more than 3 million as of 1984). That book was followed by 60 other volumes of meditations, poems, essays, criticism, history, translations, drawings and photographs. For masses of readers Brother Louis, as he was called by the Trappists, redefined the image of monasticism and made the concept of saintliness accessible to moderns. His treatise on meditation, New Seeds of Contemplation (1962), was deemed...
...knows? But now, in the title novella, we see where the question leads. The narrator, a blocked writer, has moved from his wife and his comfortable home in Connecticut to a Greenwich Village pad. He can't write in the burbs, can't stand the entanglement. Can he write in the Village? Well, he's trying, but his roiling thoughts won't order themselves tamely and obediently into fiction. There he sits at his desk, staring idly out of the window, listening to his middle-aged frame creak, finding a suspicious bump on his scrotum, brooding...
...Hines-but Puzo's script wasn't working. Enter Francis Coppola. He had once made a movie called The Godfather, from Puzo's novel, with Evans overseeing the production, and they all made pots of money. But now Coppola was deep in debt and willing to write Cotton Club for $250,000. Coppola loved his script; Evans thought it read like a PBS documentary. And so, while casting continued for roles that hardly existed and sets were built in a Queens studio at $140,000 a week, Evans persuaded Coppola to rewrite his rewrite (another...