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Best Adapted Screenplay: 1951
STANLEY [with heaven-splitting violence]: STELL-LAHHHHH! (p 60) My Top 10: A Streetcar Named Desire Detective Story A Place in the Sun The African Queen Strangers on a Train Oliver Twist La Ronde...
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Best Adapted Screenplay: 1953
“The crowd milled indignantly in the small Dayroom, everybody talking excitedly. Stark posted himself huskily in the doorway with Pete and the Chief flanking him. Warden gulped off the rest of the...
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Best Adapted Screenplay: 1954
The wonderful opening narration of Sabrina has no corresponding scene in the original play. My Top 10: Sabrina Forbidden Games Hobson’s Choice The Country Girl A Star is Born Rear Window The Caine...
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Great Read: Justice League of America #200
Justice League of America #200 Writer: Gerry Conway Artists: listed below Published: March, 1982 Publisher: DC Comics Pages: 72 First Line: “They came from space, seven glowing meteors containing...
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Best Adapted Screenplay: 1955
PULVER: Captain, this is Ensign Pulver. I just threw your palm trees overboard. Now what’s all this crap about no movie tonight? (He throws the door open, banging it against the bulkhead, and is...
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Great Read: Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Where’d You Go, Bernadette Author: Maria Semple Published: 2012 Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Pages: 326 First Lines: “The first annoying thing is when I ask Dad what he thinks happened to...
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Kudos to the Nobel Committee: a few Bob Dylan lists
They may have passed up my recommendations, but they got it right. I have been asked by several people for my reaction to Bob Dylan’s recent Nobel Prize for Literature. Part of that is because I have...
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Best Adapted Screenplay: 1956
The ending of The Killing isn’t in the original novel at all. But damn is it brilliant. My Top 10: The Killing Baby Doll Diabolique The Trouble with Harry The Searchers Richard III Anastasia Invasion...
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Best Adapted Screenplay: 1957
” ‘My God,’ the Colonel suddenly yelled, ‘the bridge has been mined, Colonel Saito. Those damn things I saw against the piles were explosives! And this wire . . .’ ” (p 174) My Top 10: The Bridge on...
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Great Read: High Fidelity
High Fidelity Author: Nick Hornby Published: 1995 Publisher: Victor Gollancz LTD Pages: 323 First Line: “My desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups, in chronological order.”...
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Great Read: I, Claudius
I, Claudius Roman depravity, decay and decadence in all its literary glory. Author: Robert Graves Published: 1934 Publisher: Arthur Barker Pages: 432 First Line: “I, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero...
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Best Adapted Screenplay: 1958
“Your future’s all used up.” The line doesn’t go with this scene, but neither that line nor this scene are in the original novel. All that great work comes from Welles. My Top 10: Touch of Evil Cat on...
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For Love of Books: The Adventures of Tintin
Introduction: A Note on the Order of the Books: The Tintin books are listed here in the order in which they were originally written and published in French. That is very different from the order in...
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Best Adapted Screenplay: 1959
Karin: Hush, hush! The actor is tuning up his lute. The Grave Gentleman bids us dance. He wants us to take each other’s hands and form a chain. He himself will lead us, and the actor will bring up the...
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Great Read: Spillover
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic Author: David Quammen Published: 2012 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pages: 587 First Line: “The virus now known as Hendra wasn’t...
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Best Adapted Screenplay: 1960
“Det håller tre Wallare upå vår gård, De hafva gjort af med döttrarne vår.” (“There are three highwaymen in our yard, Who have our daughters slain.”) My Top 10: The Virgin Spring The Cranes are Flying...
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Best Adapted Screenplay: 1961
“We’re disturbed, we’re disturbed / We’re the most disturbed / Like we’re psychologically disturbed” (p 207) My Top 10: West Side Story The Hustler One, Two, Three Breakfast at Tiffany’s The Bridge...
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For Love of Books: Batman – A Reading Guide
A few months ago, I picked up a free item at B & N called DC Essential Graphic Novels 2017. Essentially it’s a checklist of things currently available from DC and that’s what I’m using it as. In...
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Best Adapted Screenplay: 1963
“To speak out boldly at once, she was in love, according to the present universally received sense of that phrase, by which love is applied indiscriminately to the desirable objects of all our...
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Great Read: In a Sunburned Country
In a Sunburned Country Author: Bill Bryson Published: 2000 Publisher: Broadway Books Pages: 335 (paperback with new Appendix) First Line: “Flying into Australia, I realized with a sigh that I had...
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