Word: novelizations
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...another chance to see parts of his program through - but Howard found it would not be so easy to win their affection or trust. After more than 25 years in politics, he had by habit found comfort in being right. It had garnered him respect. Being popular, however, was novel - and fleeting. By early 2001, he was back in familiar territory. With an election due before the end of the year, his government was losing altitude. Good Budget management had given Howard the populist means to target specific groups, such as retirees, farmers and property investors. Money...
...CRACK AT KATRINA. Probably there will be. Certainly I'm not the kind of novelist who turns around quickly. I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom and go home and write a novel about society. It's not the way I work...
...WRITE FICTION ABOUT ACTUAL EVENTS. THAT'S BEEN A TOUCHY SUBJECT LATELY, SINCE THE FLAP OVER JAMES FREY. Well, he's not my responsibility. That book was mislabeled. It should have been spoken of as a kind of autobiographical novel. People know that novelists are liars. And that's why we can be trusted to tell the truth...
...BêTE HUMAINE JEAN RENOIR Many years later, Renoir described this streamlined 1938 version of the Zola novel as a love triangle about a man, a woman and a locomotive. That sells short the sullen passion that binds sooty engineer Jean Gabin to kittenish femme fatale Simone Simon. An implacable film noir before noir was cool, this is atypical but essential Renoir, and a reminder that subtitles are no hindrance when a great director paints in the visual language of film...
...eyes bigger than their brains. "Bank robbers," says Robinson, "are basically idiots. They went in, and they found £40 million sitting there, and they got greedy. If they had taken £4 million, they could probably have walked away and disappeared." But who'd write a true-crime novel about a miserable four...