| Writers discuss turning books to movies
Sure, every year there are several book-club favorites that turn up at the multiplex. Perusing the list of Academy Award best-picture winners can feel like a trip to Barnes & Noble, from "Gone With the Wind" and "The Godfather" to "The Silence of the Lambs" and "The English Patient." But during this tumultuous, strike-hobbled awards season, at least a dozen movies with literary roots have real shots at winning the biggest prizes. Some of those novels, like Khaled Hosseini's "The Kite Runner," are beloved and readers feel proprietary about them. Others, like Ian McEwan's "Atonement," which won best drama and musical score at the Golden Globes on Sunday night, and Jean-Dominique Bauby's memoir, "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," which won the directing prize for Julian Schnabel and the foreign-language film honor, seemed impossible to adapt because they were too complicated, too internal.
Made in Maryland
The shack at the end of the film was one director Eduardo Sanchez remembered from growing up in the area. Directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez. Starring Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams and Joshua Leonard.
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000)
How do you follow up a cult indie hit filmed in the backwoods of Maryland? Easy -- change characters, flip a few plot points and head back to Maryland. Jeff Donavan decides to start his own Blair Witch tour of the Black Hills as a result of the Blair Witch film's success. When four visitors stop by the area to rest, they discover five hours of their memory is gone. Poof. Vanished. The group seeks out Jeff's help and realizes that maybe the Blair Witch isn't just a movie. Filmed in Baltimore's Gwynns Falls/Leakin Park and many wooded areas all over Maryland.
Hip-Hop Rumors: Jay-Z Off To Apple? New G-Unit MCs? Kanye Is BACK!
Read on.
YESTERDAY'S RUMORS!
First, there was the wacky year called 2007, my round up of stupid stuff.
And then there was Hip-Hop Rumors: Raz B's Video, Roy Jones Fights Dogs?, Kim K Engaged To Reggie Bush?
JAY-Z STARTED A LABEL WITH APPLE?
I am sure you guys know this rumor isn't new at all. There have been rumors about Jay-Z (and sometimes Beyonce) starting a new iTunes-like label with Apple for quite some time. I think they started right around the same time we found out Jay-Z's contract with Def Jam was up for renewal. Anyway, here is the latest, which is actually old.
Pete Doherty: I'm At Drugs Turning Point
However, the Babyshambles singer said in a BBC interview that he is still finding his battle against addiction "a struggle" following his recent stint in rehab. He told Radio 4's Front Row programme, "In the last eight years, I've never been that long without drugs. .
Earlier 'Reader Response'
I wanted to write about your article on a divided Oslo, where the downtown area has been getting worse with drinking and partying. A year and a half ago, I was in Norway for my first trip. It was with a Sons of Norway group out of California. I live in North Dakota but went with a friend from California. We stayed at the Royal Christiana Hotel by the train station. The hotel was very nice, but our entire party was so disgusted with the loud parties that were going on outside the hotel. We did complain to the hotel management but were told that there is nothing that can be done. We were all upset about this and to this day, none of us ever plans to go back to Oslo. We so loved the rest of Norway, but Oslo is terrible. Thomas Sylskar
Bismarck, North Dakota, USA
***** In regard to the story Tourists Avoid USA,thanks to a heightened fear of terrorist attack (real or imagined, in my opinion more the latter), America's ports of entry have become more unfriendly, as noted in the article.
Facebook CEO: 'We Really Messed This One Up'
The statement also said new changes would go live Thursday night, Trujillo reported. Those changes were not made active until about 3 a.m. PDT Friday morning. The operators of the online hangout said the feature is intended to help users save time by highlighting changes their friends make to their personal profile pages. Facebook, founded in early 2004, has more than 9 million users. In a blog entry posted Wednesday at 1:45 a.m. from co-founder Mark Zuckerberg titled "Calm down. Breathe. We hear you," he addressed the recent uproar from users. .
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