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May. 3, 2021
Anyone looking for a prime example of how the approach to adapting acclaimed novels has changed over the past 40 years should watch the film and TV versions of “The Mosquito Coast” back-to-back.
Peter Weir’s 1986 film adaptation is slavishly loyal to Paul Theroux’s award-winning 1981 novel, offering a truncated but clear version of events that remains true to the original. It hits all of the book’s key plot points, as American inventor and iconoclast Allie Fox drags his family (wife and four kids) into the Honduran jungle in a bid to start from scratch and create their own piece of paradise. Paul Schrader’s script plays up the “Man of Science v. Man of God” elements of the book and serves up the entire epic story – think “Fitzcarraldo,” but with an ice-production plant in place of an opera house – in less than two hours.
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It happened at the Golden Globes, New York Fashion Week and, now, the Oscars: America’s largest abortion provider is becoming a “fashion statement.” And, in addition to entertainment news and women’s magazines, the broadcast networks are beginning to notice the trend.
Following Sunday evening’s 89
th Academy Awards ceremony, NBC anchor Natalie Morales reported on the red carpet “glitz and the glamour” that “was also mixed with politics.”
“Along with fashion statements,” Morales stressed Monday during
Today, “there were plenty of political statements.” For proof, she pointed to
La La Land actress Emma Stone’s support of Planned Parenthood.
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