 HOLLYWOOD NEWS
'The Hoax': A Movie Based on a Book and about a Book - April 05, 2007
Long before James Frey beat out J.T. Leroy and Kaavya Viswanathan to become the publishing industry's favorite scandal-maker, Clifford Irving had that title covered. Irving, the subject of the upcoming Miramax film 'The Hoax,' claimed he had been given the rights to write the authorized biography of reclusive Howard Hughes and fooled the industry completely.
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'Potter' Stars Set for More Wizardry - March 26, 2007
Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson have signed on to reprise the roles of teen wizards Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, respectively, in the final two installments of Warner Bros. Pictures' "Harry Potter" movies. The three actors have been with the movie series since the first film, 2001's 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone,' and over the years questions arose whether the actors would age out of the parts of students attending wizardry school.
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'Titanic' Duo Attached to 'Revolutionary Road' - March 23, 2007
Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet will meet again on-screen¿this time not on water, but on 'Revolutionary Road,' 'Variety' reported, the adaptation of Richard Yates' 1961 novel. Sam Mendes, Winslet's husband, will direct and filming will start this summer.
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Indie Director Takes on Literary Adaptations - March 20, 2007
David Gordon Green is in final negotiations to write and direct a screen adaptation of John Grisham's nonfiction book 'The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town' for Warner Independent Pictures and George Clooney and Grant Heslov's production company Smoke House.
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DRY MANHATTAN: Prohibition in New York City
April 01, 2007 - The clear, focused text provides ample evidence of this first-time author's wide research and deep familiarity with the relevant sources. Lerner recognizes Prohibition's central issue: the desire to define morality narrowly and to force that definition upon others. Teeming with immigrants and overflowing with booze, New York City seemed an unlikely battlefield, but William H. Anderson and his Anti-Saloon League came, saw and conquered. Anderson began his fierce and creative anti-alcohol campaign upon arrival in the city in 1914; by 1920, Prohibition was constitutional. The author does a good job of exploring and explaining Anderson's strategies and of identifying the cultural and historical forces that enabled his initial successes, among them the identification of beer-drinking with Germans, America's opponents in World War I....A fine history of a most troubling time. ...Full Review
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