Aug 27, 2021
Book Vs Movie: “Dangerous Liaisons”
The 1782 Novel Vs the 1985 Play & the 1988 Movie
The Margos get a little sexy and wicked with this 1782 “libertine novel” from Pierre Chodlerlos de Laclos, a French writer and Army General who ten years before the French Revolution published four volumes of “Les Liaisons...
Aug 19, 2021
Book Vs Movie: “Heartburn”
The “Nora Ephron is a Queen” Episode
Norah Ephron was one of the most celebrated writers of the 20th Century from her work as an essayist for Esquire to her best-selling novels and screenplays for classic films. She has been honored with Academy Awards, Writer’s Guild Awards, and...
Aug 10, 2021
Book Vs Movie: “Almost Famous”
Based on several articles by Cameron Crowe in Rolling Stone Vs the 2000 film
In 1973, writer Cameron Crowe was just your ordinary 16-year-old on the road with The Allman Brothers writing a cover story about the band’s troubles and successes while going on the road. The resulting...
Aug 5, 2021
Book Vs Movie: “Dog Day Afternoon”
The Classic Hollywood 1974 film Vs “The Boys in the Bank” from 1972 article from Life Magazine
On August 22, 1972, John Wojtowicz and two accomplices entered a bank In Brooklyn at 450 Avenue P (in Gravesend) and started a robbery. One left early, (20-year-old Bobby Westeberg)...