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What Book-to-Movie Changes Have Bugged You?
In adapting a book for the big screen, adjustments are obviously necessary and often understandable — except when they're quite frustrating. Earlier this year the news came out that the My Sister's Keeper filmmakers were changing the end of the story for the film version, causing a bit of apprehension for fans of the Jodi Picoult novel. In my opinion, the change made sense for the film, but I also understand the loyalty people feel toward the source material.
Buzz News Roundup, 7/20
- Jorja Fox will reprise her role as Sara Sidle on multiple episodes of CSI this Fall. — The Futon Critic
- Angela's Ashes author Frank McCourt died Sunday at age 78. — AP
- Viola Davis could play Julia Roberts' best friend in Eat, Pray, Love.
Javier Bardem Makes Me Interested to See Eat, Pray, Love
I'll admit I wasn't totally on board for the film adaptation of Eat, Pray, Love when it was announced that Julia Roberts would play the lead role, memoir writer Elizabeth Gilbert. I like Roberts, but this seemed like some odd casting. Gradually, however, I've been warming to the project, as director Ryan Murphy (creator of Popular and Nip/Tuck, director of Running With Scissors) signed on, and Richard Jenkins was cast.
Eat, Pray, Love Movie Gets Going With Richard Jenkins
Ryan Murphy is the creator of Popular and Nip/Tuck, writer/director of Running With Scissors and most recently the creator of Fox's high school chorus comedy Glee — and now he can add "director of Eat, Pray, Love" to his resume. And he won't just be working with Julia Roberts in the main role (as was announced back in 2006), he's got Oscar nominee Richard Jenkins to boss around as well. Here's more:
Based on the international bestseller by Elizabeth Gilbert, story centers on a married woman who embarks on a journey of self-discovery after trying to get pregnant and realizing that she's not living the life she wants.
Buzz In: Where Do You Want to Travel Because of a Book?
There's been a serious tourism boom in a small town on the Washington State peninsula, Forks, because the popular young adult saga Twilight is set there. The "vampire tourism," as it's called, has given the "timber town where logging's decline left a graveyard of rusting timber mills and unemployment" a bit of a renaissance, thanks to the nearly 100 Twilight fans per day who come to see the real-life city where the spooky tale takes place. Tourists can pick up vampire-related souvenirs and even eat a "Bella Burger" at a local drive-in.
Buzz In: What Books Capture the Lives of Women in 2008?
I saw a great Charlie Rose interview of Matthew Weiner (creator of Mad Men) and I learned some fascinating tidbits. My favorite is the fact that Weiner defers to two books as his guide to what women's lives in the 1960s must have been like: The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan and Sex and the Single Girl by Helen Gurley Brown.
I can easily see the influence of Friedan's book in Betty's identity crises as a housewife, and Joan practically embodies the financially independent, swinging city gal that Gurley Brown so emphatically describes in her book.
Is Eat, Pray, Love Enlightening or Annoying?
Elizabeth Gilbert's memoir Eat, Pray, Love has been a smash success, especially among women. Some readers have even embraced it as more of a self-help guide than one woman sharing her personal thoughts on life, love, and spirituality.
However, this kind of success often comes with a backlash, and some critics are claiming Gilbert ought to "get over herself."
What's Buzzworthy: Great Travel Writing
In my last Buzzworthy challenge, I asked you to bookmark some of the best travel writing that could transport readers to cities and countries they might only dream of visiting. You responded with some great picks for places from Paris to Portland. Here are a few that I'm putting on my reading list:
Fugitives and Refugees by Chuck Palahniuk
Tagged by StefaPie, who said: "He's one of my absolute favorite authors, and this memoir/guidebook makes you want to go live in the world he's describing to the masses.
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