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1) Slipstream
Pub. Date
2008,p2007
Description
Hired to rewrite a film, an aging screenwriter finds the lines between reality and imagination blurring as characters from his script (and others) hop off the page and into his life.
2) The rewrite
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
A successful screenwriter leaves Hollywood to take a job as a professor in a small town where he meets and falls in love with a single mother.
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Marty is a struggling screenwriter who wants nothing more than to finish his script. Instead, he becomes entangled with the Los Angeles gangster underworld when his odd, but well-meaning friends kidnap a volatile gangster's shih tzu. The ordeal gives Marty all the inspiration he needs; now, he must live long enough to finish his story.
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
Marty is a struggling screenwriter who wants nothing more than to finish his script. Instead, he becomes entangled with the Los Angeles gangster underworld when his odd, but well-meaning friends kidnap a volatile gangster's shih tzu. The ordeal gives Marty all the inspiration he needs; now, he must live long enough to finish his story.
8) The Majestic
Pub. Date
2001.
Description
An amnesiac settles in a small town where he is mistaken for a long lost local hero.
Series
Centennial collection volume 1
Pub. Date
1950
Description
The story of an aging film queen who prepares for her grand comeback to stardom.
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Nines consists of three short films, each featuring the same actors in different and sometimes overlapping roles. Togehter, three stories form a single narrative that explores the relationships between author and character, actor and role, creator and creation.
Slipstream: A screenwriter, revising the movie he is working on, finds that reality and fiction are blurring together when some of the characters in his film are showing up in real life.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
A princess on an official visit to Rome slips away without notice and falls in love with a newspaperman; a screenwriter has a deadline and no script until his secretary comes to the rescue by acting out a series of preposterous plotlines; after a stint in Paris, a chauffeur's daughter transforms from a shy, awkward girl into a graceful woman, capturing the attention of a wealthy family's sons; Holly Golightly, a charming, eccentric New York City playgirl,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 810
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
A down on his luck screenwriter reluctantly agrees to adapt a trashy bestseller to the silver screen. Rather than read the book himself, Steele convinces a star-struck hatcheck girl, Mildred Atkinson, to accompany him home and tell him the story in her own words. Later the night, Mildred is found murdered and Steele who has a history of violent behavior becomes the prime suspect. A neighbor who is attracted to him lies to the police providing them...
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Breakfast at Tiffany's: Holly Golightly, a charming, eccentric New York City playgirl, is determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire until she meets her new next-door neighbor, a gigolo and struggling writer ; Funny face: a fashion photographer pulls a shy Greenwich Village bookstore clerk from obscurity to become a model in Paris -- My fair lady: A Cockney waif is transformed by a linguistics professor into an elegant lady -- Paris when it sizzles:...