Screenwriter Tony McNamara, who previously worked with Colman on The Favourite, was also a fan of the 1989 film. He agreed to write the script for The Roses, using the original and the book it’s based on—Warren Adler’s 1981 novel of the same name—as a jumping-off point. “I thought, Why don’t we make a movie that’s more focused on […]
Comical and cruel. The War of the Roses conquers and entertains Teatro Eliseo staged “The War of the Roses” The War of the Roses at the Teatro Eliseo the descent into the underworld of a couple (apparently) perfect Eliseo Theater. Applause to the interpreters of “La guerra dei Roses” “The War of the Roses,” the […]
Yesterday I was lucky enough to speak to a classroom of eager students at The Center for Living and Learning here in NYC. This extraordinary group of people were all seniors. As in senior citizens. Wednesday’s class, “The Wonders of Age,” was an hour and a half of joy, wonder and bittersweet understanding. I’ll be […]
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The true test of talent for a fiction writer is the ability to imagine pain, angst, despair, discouragement, frustration as well as joy, ecstasy, elation and pleasure. This is the power that runs the machine of character creation that lies at the very heart of storytelling. As we fiction practitioners understand, craft can be learned, […]
The North American premiere of my play The War of the Roses, based solely on the original novel, has opened at the Delaware Theatre Company in Wilmington to spectacular reviews. It avoids using any of the brilliant changes concocted by the screenwriters and director that made the movie an enduring hit that plays somewhere in […]
People often ask, and I ask myself on a daily basis, why I have spent more than six decades writing novels, short stories, essays, poems, plays and occasional reportage, continuing to ply this obsession into the cusp of my dotage. My answer to others and especially to myself never seems quite adequate. Whether I take […]
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