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"Library Journal" Book Review - "The Novelizers"
"LIBRARY JOURNAL" BOOK REVIEW Spencer (Musical Theatre Writer’s Survival Guide) is not only an award-winning composer/lyricist but also a lifelong fan of novelizations and tie-in books. “Media tie-in writing is literature. Real literature,” he persuasively argues in this massive and affectionate history of novelizations. Screenplay novelizations of silent films began appearing in 1915, decades after stage play novelizations. Far from hack writers, among the notables who wrote novelizations are Pulitzer Prize winner Upton Sinclair (who novelized the play Damaged Goods in 1913); National Book Award winner Paul Monette who penned tie-ins for Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu and Brian De Palma’s Scarface; and Isaac Asimov, who novelized Fantastic...
Book Review - John Wayne's B-Westerns, 1932-1939
https://laurasmiscmusings.blogspot.com/2023/09/book-review-john-wayne-b-westerns-1932.html
Review of Suzanne Gould's Biography of Sheb Wooley
https://tulsaworld.com/entertainment/movies/love-of-rawhide-puts-former-tulsan-on-trail-to-write-sheb-wooley-biography/article_c1b5a0f0-b78c-11ed-973b-ab2c0c26059a.html
John W. Harding Answers Questions About His New Novel, "Cast Aside"
Q & A with “Cast Aside” author John W. Harding Q: As a novelist what made you decide to focus on the early years of motion pictures? A: It took me a while to get there, actually. I was born in Los Angeles, raised under the Hollywood sign. So I heard these stories growing up. My classmates were often actors and the kids of filmmakers. My first crush in high school was on Terry Burnham, the little blonde girl who played the spooky child sitting outside a woman’s apartment in that famous episode of “The Twilight...
Denise Noe Answers Questions About "Ayn Rand at the Movies"
Q) What led you to want to write Ayn Rand at the Movies? A) Ayn Rand is significantly linked to the motion picture industry. She contributed to it in many ways. She wrote about movies. She wrote the screen plays for three different films: You Came Along, Love Letters, and The Fountainhead. Her works have inspired several movies. There have been movies made about her life. In fact, a film was pivotal to the most important relationship she ever had. She was very young, had just gotten to this country, and was working as an extra on the 1927 Cecil...