This Brian De Palma movie about the notorious Betty Short murder case, from 1947, which was the basis for a 1987 novel by James Ellroy, suffers from rampant allusiveness to other movies set in Los Angeles.
It is an adaptation of the Henry James novel Washington Square, which became an Oscar-winning film in 1949.
James' novel puts them there, providing an outlet for a sort of creativity that hasn't been considered mainstream.
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Boyd also made headlines last week when he was offered the chance to write the next James Bond novel.
To research the novel, Mr. James, who has homes in London and near Brighton, traveled to New York for an insider's tour of the organized crime world, led by Dennis Bootle, a retired New York Police Department detective, and Patrick Lanigan, an investigator with the New York district attorney's office.
The play, an adaptation of Henry James's novel "Washington Square, " is set just blocks from her new home.
Other new commissions include Death Comes to Pemberley, a three-part hour-long drama, adapted from PD James' bestselling novel.
Massively popular contemporary U.K. crime writers like Ian Rankin and Colin Dexter haven't replicated their huge success in the U.S. "There's a traditional structure to the English crime novel, " Mr. James says.
After all, the most famous organ-eater of all time is the character Leopold Bloom in James Joyce's novel Ulysses.
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Crime writer PD James is to publish a novel that puts murder at the heart of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
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Welles' classic novel and directed by the master of macabre, James Whale, The Invisible Man fueled a host of sequels and features revolutionary special effects that are still imitated today.
Director James Whale's adaptation of the Mary Shelley novel and Karloff's compassionate portrayal of a creature groping for identity make Frankenstein a timeless masterpiece.
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The mid-1960s were awash in Bond parodies in the cinema and on network television, with films like Our Man Flint and the original Casino Royale (a parody of Fleming's novel that starred David Niven as Bond and Woody Allen as James Bond's nephew) in 1966 and 1967.
Fictional superspy James Bond was made a CMG in Ian Fleming's novel From Russia With Love.
Her career as a screenwriter developed after Ismail Merchant and James Ivory asked her to develop a script based on her 1960 novel "The Householder, " published when she was living as an expatriate in Delhi.
Hilary Mantel, James Meek, Stephen May and Joff Winterhart have been shortlisted for best novel in the Costa Book Awards.
His 1994 follow-up novel, The Folding Star, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.
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Ginsberg, one of the most awarded of American poets, has popped up several times recently in films like Howl, where he was played by James Franco, and Walter Salles's movie adaptation of the Kerouac novel, On the Road.
Co-author Kit Macleod, senior research scientist at the James Hutton Institute based in Aberdeen, said a long-term project had been developing novel forage grasses but their environmental benefits had not really been tested.
James, a TV executive, wife and mother based in London, took a young adult novel and spiced it up, said Sarah Weir, a contributing editor at Yahoo!
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In this novel, short-listed for the Man Booker prize, the author insinuates himself under the skin of Henry James, covering not only the known episodes in the literary lion's life, but also imagining the darker corners.
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