"the movie's original screenwriter James Dearden. On July 2, 2015, Fox announced that a TV series based on the film is being developed by ""Mad Men"" writers Maria and Andre Jacquemetton. On January 13, 2017, it was announced that the project was canceled. Fatal Attraction Fatal Attraction is a 1987 American psychological erotic thriller film directed by Adrian Lyne from a screenplay written by James Dearden, based on his 1980 short film ""Diversion"". Starring Michael Douglas, Glenn Close and Anne Archer, the film centers on a married man who has a weekend affair with a woman who refuses to allow"
"and finds Dr. Ransome there, soon returning to his pre-war residence with his parents. The book was adapted by Tom Stoppard in 1987. The screenplay was filmed by Steven Spielberg, to critical acclaim, being nominated for six Oscars and winning three British Academy Awards (for cinematography, music and sound). It starred a then 13-year-old Christian Bale, as well as John Malkovich and Miranda Richardson; it also featured an appearance by a 21-year-old Ben Stiller, in a dramatic role. Empire of the Sun Empire of the Sun is a 1984 novel by English writer J. G. Ballard; it was awarded the"
"fascinating insight into how Third World families live with, and somehow survive, their poverty"". Taylor Dibbert of ""International Policy Digest"" added ""It’s not hard to understand why this work has received such high praise. This is an honest story of pain, struggle, hope and love. He concludes the book on a reflective note... Brierley’s journey is inspirational and deeply moving; it’s another reminder of how potent passion and the human spirit actually are"". In 2016, the book was adapted into major international feature film ""Lion"", directed by Garth Davis and starring Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman and Rooney Mara. The film"
"""And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic"", published in 1987, won the Stonewall Book Award and brought him nationwide literary fame. ""And the Band Played On"" is an extensively researched account of the early days of the AIDS epidemic in the United States. The book was translated into seven languages, and was later made into an HBO film of the same name in 1993, with many big-name actors in starring or supporting roles, including Matthew Modine, Richard Gere, Anjelica Huston, Phil Collins, Lily Tomlin, Ian McKellen, Steve Martin, and Alan Alda, among others. The film earned"
"famous of which is ""In the Islands"", reprinted in ""The White Album"" (1979) and in ""Collected Nonfiction"" (2006). The novel is number 62 on the Modern Library 100 Best Novels list. ""From Here to Eternity"" was adapted as a 1953 film of the same name directed by Fred Zinnemann and produced by Buddy Adler, starring Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr in the famous sex scene. It was adapted twice for television as a miniseries of the same name in 1979 and as a series of the same name in 1980. A musical adaption of the novel opened at the Shaftesbury"
"1988 and a Pulitzer Prize in 1989. The book was the basis for the 1997 film ""Wilde"", directed by Brian Gilbert and starring Stephen Fry as the title character. Neil McKenna's 2003 biography, ""The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde,"" offers an exploration of Wilde's sexuality. Often speculative in nature, it was widely criticised for its pure conjecture and lack of scholarly rigour. Thomas Wright's ""Oscar's Books"" (2008) explores Wilde's reading from his childhood in Dublin to his death in Paris. After tracking down many books that once belonged to Wilde's Tite Street library (dispersed at the time of his trials),"
"to alter people's lives. She thinks the people she loves are better than they really are, and so then she starts changing things around to suit her point of view of them."" In 1994, a television movie based on the book was made for the Hallmark Hall of Fame. It was directed by John Erman, and starred James Garner and Joanne Woodward as Ira and Maggie Moran. It was filmed in the Pittsburgh PA area. Joanne Woodward won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance. Kevin McKeon also adapted the novel into a stage"
"Ian Somerhalder as Paul, and Kip Pardue as Victor. The Rules of Attraction The Rules of Attraction is a satirical black comedy novel by Bret Easton Ellis published in 1987. The novel focuses on a handful of rowdy and often sexually promiscuous, spoiled bohemian college students at a liberal arts college in 1980s New Hampshire, primarily focusing on three of them who find themselves in a love triangle. The novel is written in first person narrative, and the story is told from the points of view of various characters. The book was adapted into a film of the same name"
"in national journals, magazines and newspapers. Arguably Kaye-Smith's most famous novel, ""Joanna Godden"" was based in Romney Marsh and filmed in 1947 as ""The Loves of Joanna Godden"" starring Googie Withers and with a score by Ralph Vaughan Williams. The screenplay by H. E. Bates has a very different conclusion to the story. Her later books increasingly reflected her own religious preoccupations, featuring characters tussling with spiritual crises and conversions within subtle discussions of the differences between Anglicanism, Anglo-Catholicism and Catholicism. Nevertheless her plots (e.g. in ""The Lardners and the Laurelwoods"", ""A Valient Woman"", and ""Mrs Gailey"") reflect pre- and"
"his first novel, ""Yardie"", which describes the life of a Jamaican courier carrying cocaine from Jamaica to London. The book helped to launch X Press, a black-owned publishing company co-founded in 1992 by Dotun Adebayo and Steve Pope. Headley has sold more than half a million copies across five titles, in five languages worldwide. Headley's ""Yardie"" has been adapted as a feature film of the same name, released in 2018. In 2017, actor Idris Elba announced the book as the vehicle for his directorial debut, with Aml Ameen starring as the main character ""D"". Also starring are British actors Mark"
"was more than 50 years old. ""Birdy"" was a critical and popular success and it won the U.S. National Book Award in category First Novel. Alan Parker directed a film version starring Nicolas Cage and Matthew Modine. After the publication of ""Birdy"" and through the early 1990s, Wharton published eight novels, including ""Dad"" and ""A Midnight Clear"", both of which were also made into films. ""Dad"" starred Jack Lemmon and Ethan Hawke in one of his first movie roles. Hawke also starred in ""A Midnight Clear"". In 1988, Wharton's daughter, Kate, his son-in-law Bill, and their two children, two-year-old Dayiel"
"– Carl Davis 1982: ""E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial"" – John Williams † 1983: ""Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence"" – Ryuichi Sakamoto 1984: ""Once Upon a Time in America"" – Ennio Morricone 1985: ""Witness"" – Maurice Jarre ‡ 1986: ""The Mission"" – Ennio Morricone ‡ 1987: ""The Untouchables"" – Ennio Morricone ‡ 1988: ""Empire of the Sun"" – John Williams ‡ 1989: ""Dead Poets Society"" – Maurice Jarre 1990: ""Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo Cinema Paradiso)"" – Andrea and Ennio Morricone 1991: ""Cyrano de Bergerac"" – Jean-Claude Petit 1992: ""Strictly Ballroom"" – David Hirschfelder Best Score<br> 1993: ""Schindler's List"" – John Williams † Anthony Asquith"
"of 1984. Following its release, the film premiered at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival, and on May 20, 1985, it won the Grand Prix Spécial du Jury prize. In 1987, the film received an Audience Award at the Warsaw International Film Festival. Birdy (film) Birdy is a 1984 American drama film based on William Wharton's 1978 novel of the same name. Directed by Alan Parker, it stars Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage. The film focuses on the friendship between Birdy (Modine) and Al Columbato (Cage), two teenage boys living in a working-class neighborhood in 1960s Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The story is"
"in the early 1990s. As budgets shrank, so did actor salaries, image quality, and shooting schedules. For these reasons many of the pioneers of the erotic thriller film, such as Axis Films International and Prism, left the market in frustration or went out of business entirely. Adrian Lyne helped usher in the erotic thriller as a genre with ""9 ½ Weeks"" (1986) and, a year later, the Hollywood blockbuster ""Fatal Attraction"" (1987). He later followed these with ""Lolita"" (1997) and ""Unfaithful"" (2002) while continuing to direct high-profile mainstream films for established Hollywood studios. As the writer of ""Basic Instinct"" (1992),"
"the house listening in to conversations of their elders and betters"". The book was first published by Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd in 1956 and in paperback by Penguin Books in 1959 and has remained in print ever since. ""My Family and Other Animals"" was made into a ten-part BBC television series in 1987 written by Charles Wood and directed by Peter Barber-Fleming. It starred Hannah Gordon as Louisa Durrell and Brian Blessed as Spiro Amerikanos, with Darren Redmayne playing the young Gerry. Nigel Marven of the Natural History Unit, Bristol was responsible for the animals side of the production; Denis McKeown,"
"books that actually has the potential to change your life"" by the San Francisco Bay Guardian and as ""a fascinating book and a fascinating experiment"" by David Letterman. A film adaptation of ""Yes Man"" was developed with Warner Bros. and stars Jim Carrey and Zooey Deschanel. It was released on 19 December 2008 in the US and 26 December 2008 in the UK. Wallace appeared on screen in a cameo in a bar scene in the last ten minutes of the film, holding a British pint glass. The film made almost $100 million at the US Box Office. The critical"
"(1970), ""The Eighth Sacrament"" (1977), and ""The Bedeviled"" (1978)—as well as several plays, which are still produced. He received a Ford Foundation grant to represent the United States at a literary colloquium in Berlin in 1964, and he wrote a weekly television program in his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, both for WKYC, a local television affiliate, and for Case Western Reserve University. ""The Beguiled"" was twice made into a film: in 1971, starring Clint Eastwood and Geraldine Page, and in 2017, directed by Sofia Coppola and starring Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell, Kirsten Dunst, and Elle Fanning. Cullinan died of a"
"Third Kind"" – Joe Alves 1979: ""Alien"" – Michael Seymour 1980: ""The Elephant Man"" – Stuart Craig 1981: ""Raiders of the Lost Ark"" – Norman Reynolds 1982: ""Blade Runner"" – Lawrence G. Paull 1983: ""La Traviata"" – Gianni Quaranta and Franco Zeffirelli 1985: ""Brazil"" – Norman Garwood 1986: ""A Room with a View"" – Brian Ackland-Snow and Gianni Quaranta 1987: ""Radio Days"" – Santo Loquasto 1988: """" – Dean Tavoularis 1989: ""The Adventures of Baron Munchausen"" – Dante Ferretti 1990: ""Dick Tracy"" – Richard Sylbert 1991: ""Edward Scissorhands"" – Bo Welch 1992: ""Strictly Ballroom"" – Catherine Martin 1993: ""The Piano"""
"of Percy Hamilton Close, in Chelsea in London. The wedding was attended by Alice Baines and James Douglas. Five times Locke's books made the list of best-selling novels in the United States for the year. His works have been made into 24 motion pictures the most recent of which was ""Ladies in Lavender"", filmed in 2004 and starring Dame Judi Dench and Maggie Smith. Adapted to the screen by Charles Dance, it was based on Locke's 1916 short story of the same title that had been published in a collection entitled """"Faraway Stories""."" Probably the most famous of Locke's books"
"and ""The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby"". In 1979, he published the influential book ""The Right Stuff"" about the Mercury Seven astronauts, which was made into a 1983 film of the same name directed by Philip Kaufman. His first novel, ""The Bonfire of the Vanities"", published in 1987, was met with critical acclaim and also became a commercial success. It was adapted as a major motion picture of the same name directed by Brian De Palma. Wolfe was born on March 2, 1930, in Richmond, Virginia, the son of Helen Perkins Hughes Wolfe, a garden designer, and Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Sr.,"
"which was only then beginning to be widely acknowledged as a problem. In 1981, a movie adaptation of the book was released, starring Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford and Diana Scarwid as Crawford. The film, while critically panned, grossed more than $39 million worldwide from a $5 million budget and garnered five Golden Raspberry Awards. The film is now regarded as an unintentional comedy and a cult classic; however, Crawford was not amused and deeply despised the film. Crawford has published five subsequent books, including ""Survivor"". For seven years, she served as a member of Los Angeles' Inter-Agency Council on"
"molestation that culminates when the offender commits suicide in Delaware's office. Detective Milo Sturgis urges Delaware to come out of retirement and interview a seven-year-old child who may have witnessed a crime. Sturgis appoints Delaware as a ""special consultant"" to the Los Angeles Police Department. Kellerman's timing in this novel coincided with news stories about child abuse in child care facilities. The book was adapted as a 1986 film starring Ted Danson as Alex and Richard Masur as Milo. In ""Blood Test"", Alex Delaware acts as a consultant in the divorce and child custody case of Richard Moody, a bipolar"
"Morten Lauridsen. In late 1979 the filmmaker Ross Spears premiered his film AGEE: A Sovereign Prince of the English Language, which was later nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and was awarded a Blue Ribbon at the 1980 American Film Festival. AGEE featured James Agee's friends, Dwight Macdonald, Robert Fitzgerald, Robert Saudek, and John Huston, as well as the three women to whom James Agee had been married. In addition, Father James Harold Flye was a featured interviewee. President Jimmy Carter speaks about his favorite book, ""Let Us Now Praise Famous Men"". ""The Man Who Lives Here"
"for both Anthony Quayle and Denholm Elliott. The book was adapted again in 2002 by Doug Liman starring Matt Damon as Jason Bourne, launching the ""Bourne"" series of theatrical films, with considerable deviations from the original Cold War novel. It was followed later by a new series of ""Bourne"" best sellers written by Eric Lustbader with the permission of the Ludlum estate. The film exhibits some differences from the novel by Ludlum. The undercover identity of Jason Bourne is simplified to ""Bourne"" pursuing Carlos rather than using the code name ""Cain"". Alexander Conklin is killed by one of his own"
"the law, Mohune and Fox must decipher a coded message in their pursuit of a fabulous diamond hidden long ago. The book was published in England in 1898 but not published in the US until 1951. Reviews were excellent. MGM bought the film rights and announced Stewart Granger as the star immediately. William Wright was originally going to produce. Then the job of producing went to John Houseman produced. Houseman later recalled, ""the novel was written back about 1890, was as successful as Treasure Island had been, and then was totally forgotten. The man [J. Meade Falkner] never wrote anything"
"""The Junkers""; the Hawthornden Prize and Somerset Maugham Award for ""Monk Dawson""; the Thomas More Medal for ""Alive""; the Enid McLeod Award for ""The Free Frenchman""; and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for ""A Season in the West"". Read’s novels ""A Married Man"" (1984) and ""The Free Frenchman"" (1988) were adapted for television; ""Alive"" was made into a feature film by the director Frank Marshal in 1993; and ""Monk Dawson"" by Tom Waller in 1998. Read is best known for his non-fiction book """" which documented the story of the 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 in"
"list for the week of August 2, 1987. It has since sold over 1,063,000 hardcover copies by the next year. Critically, the book received generally positive reviews. ""The New York Times"" praised it as ""a powerful piece of popular fiction; its plot, if implausible, is irresistible, and its emotions are universal."" However, Kirkus Reviews's verdict is mixed, stating that ""Exciting shoot-outs and chases, and lots of Royal wish-fulfillment; but without naval authenticity to bolster the prose, Clancy is a fish out of water."" The novel was adapted as a feature film, which was released on June 5, 1992. Jack Ryan"
"as something Holy... We showed the script to him and he made some changes. We even showed it to him again after the changes were made... If the picture doesn't satisfy Hemingway he should read the book again... because the book won't satisfy him... I don't think he saw the picture. I think someone told him about it. Flynn's performance was highly acclaimed and led to a series of roles where he played alcoholics. A later film version of the novel, directed by James Goldstone, was made in 1984. The Sun Also Rises (1957 film) The Sun Also Rises is"
"is promoted to COO and president of a California biotechnology company. The guilty parties in the price-fixing conspiracy, including ADM, pay hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements and fines, while several ADM executives serve prison time. The book was used as the basis for the movie ""The Informant!"", directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Matt Damon as Mark Whitacre. The Informant (book) The Informant is a nonfiction white-collar crime book written by journalist Kurt Eichenwald and published in 2000 by Random House. It documents the mid-1990s lysine price-fixing conspiracy case and the involvement of Archer Daniels Midland executive Mark"
"since 1981. At least five portions of the opera have been publicly performed and one, ""Nose-List Song"", was recorded in 1985 on the album, ""The Kiss and Other Movements"". The book was adapted on film in 2006 as ""A Cock and Bull Story"", directed by Michael Winterbottom, written by Frank Cottrell Boyce (credited as Martin Hardy, in a complicated metafictional twist), and starring Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Keeley Hawes, Kelly Macdonald, Naomie Harris, and Gillian Anderson. The movie plays with metatextual levels, showing both scenes from the novel itself and fictionalised behind-the-scenes footage of the adaptation process, even employing some"
"above, include ""In the Midst of Earth"" (1969), ""The Peppersalt Land"" (1970), ""The Runaway's Diary"" (1971), ""The Conjurers"" (1974), ""Bledding Sorrow"" (1976), ""The Portent"" (1980), ""The Last Great Love"" (1981), ""The Diviner"" (1983), ""Warrick"" (1985), ""Night Games"" (1987), and ""Lost and Found"" (1991). The novel ""Hatter Fox"" was successfully filmed as a TV movie under the title ""The Girl Called Hatter Fox"" starring Ronny Cox (Dr. Teague Summer) and Joanelle Romero (the title character). The film marked the first time a Native American actress played a leading role. Harris's work has received a wide readership; in 1983, nine million of"
"as Mrs. Medlock. The executive producer was Francis Ford Coppola. Dorothea Brooking adapted the book into several different television serials for the BBC: an eight-part serial in 1952, an eight-part serial in 1960 (starring Colin Spaull as Dickon) and a seven-part serial broadcast in 1975, which last has been released on DVD. ""Hallmark Hall of Fame"" filmed a TV adaptation of the novel in 1987, starring Gennie James as Mary, Barret Oliver as Dickon, and Jadrien Steele as Colin. Billie Whitelaw appeared as Mrs Medlock and Derek Jacobi played the role of Archibald Craven, with Alison Doody appearing in flashbacks"
"""Enduring Love"", about the relationship between a science writer and a stalker, was popular with critics, although it was not shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It was adapted into a film in 2004. In 1998, he won the Man Booker Prize for ""Amsterdam"". His next novel, ""Atonement"" (2001), received considerable acclaim; ""Time"" magazine named it the best novel of 2002, and it was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In 2007, the critically acclaimed movie ""Atonement"", directed by Joe Wright and starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy, was released in cinemas worldwide. His next work, ""Saturday"" (2005), follows an especially eventful"