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Nicole Kidman played Faunia Farley, a college janitor, in the 2003 movie version of Philip Roth s 2000 novel The Human Stain.
An exclusive preview from Blake Bailey s new biography of the great American author reveals just how much he hated seeing his novels turned into movies but that he did have a soft spot for leading ladies, including the Human Stain star, who rebuffed him, saying: Tell him to grow up!
In “Philip Roth and Film,” the critic Ira Nadel claimed that “Roth takes pride in the proposed filming and production of his work, noting that film dramatically exposes his work to larger audiences.” “Pure rubbish, from the first sentence to the last,” Roth scribbled at the end of Nadel’s paper with his red Flair pen. On the contrary as he once remarked to Hanif Kureishi, a screenwriter (