Life today is very much a scaled-down version of the fictionalized early 20th-century.
Pithy one-liners and fictionalized history may be mildly amusing, but is it really the best video game script out there?
"I've seen too many movies about journalism and I believed them all, " one of the fictionalized characters is made to say.
The film stars two musicians, Negar Shaghaghi and Ashkan Koshanejad, who play fictionalized versions of themselves (the script is loose and improvisational).
Don DeLillo memorably fictionalized the ball's ownership saga in his novel Underworld.
Half Broke Horses is her semi-prequel, the fictionalized life of her grandmother.
"Zero Dark Thirty" fictionalized some events and people to keep the story moving as well as to keep sources and U.S. operations safe.
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Other studies of the impact of media violence on youth show that behavior that appears realistic is more likely to be imitated than fictionalized behavior.
The Met co-commission is a fictionalized account of a British teenager who used the Internet in an attempt to arrange his own murder in 2003.
Her fictionalized account of the couple's wartime exploits, translated into English as "Outwitting the Gestapo, " was turned into a film in 1997, directed by Claude Berri.
But when James Bond first appeared in Dr No, there was at least one aspect of the storyline that couldn't be fictionalized: the beauty of Jamaica.
Here "Admission" provides no checklist of answers, but its satire on the workings of a fictionalized Princeton (last year the real Princeton took in just 2, 095 of the 26, 664 who applied), provides solid, commonsense advice.
The book, written by Fortune senior technology writer David Kirkpatrick, gives an inside look into the company and its meteoric rise (and is not to be confused with that other fictionalized Facebook novel that the upcoming movie, The Social Network, is based on).
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In my new novel "Tiger Rag, " Charles "Buddy" Bolden (a fictionalized version of the jazz pioneer) plays the trumpet's precursor, the cornet, which I describe on page two: the carefully calibrated valves, the mouthpiece, the bell triple-silver-plated on the outside, gold-plated on the inside, the finger pieces of inlaid pearl.
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Directed by Neil Pepe and performed by a top-of-the-line ensemble cast led by Keith Carradine and Hunter Foster, "Hands on a Hardbody" is a fictionalized version of the much-admired 1997 film documentary about a Texas endurance competition whose contestants must keep one hand on a brand-new pickup truck until they walk away in frustration or collapse from exhaustion.
Many have carped about Morris' brave but odd literary technique: The writer "fictionalized" himself as an American-born citizen and contemporary of Reagan's. (He's actually Kenyan-born and 59 years old.) The idea was to put a "camera" on Reagan, then follow him as he grew up in rural Illinois, reached manhood in Des Moines (as a Chicago Cubs announcer) and attained fame in Hollywood.
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