Chronicle - Novels into Movies

DateFebruary 25 1983

Can DescriptionsChronicle Friday February 25, 1983 Novels Into Movies Aircheck

AbstractChronicle: Novels into Movies, Typewriter to Tinsel Town; classics are often the hardest to turn successfully into a movie for a variety of reasons; those reasons are described, with examples provided; "frozen with respect" is one reason given; disappointment of book authors is also described; black screen breaks with video interruptions; Robert Parker is interviewed about his work on the Spencer character, and novels that have become movies; Arnie Reisman provides a report on Earnest Hemingway with clips from movies made from Hemingway's novels; the tribute contextualizes Hemingway's style of writing and the differences in the movie scripts that followed.

OtherIn the studio Peter Mehegan, Jeanne Blake, Charles Kravetz, Judith Stoia, David Lawless, Ron Blau, Vince Canzoneri, Jerry Kirschenbaum;