Author Sparks goes Hollywood again in `Last Song’ (AP) – NIMBRUNG.NET
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 at 7:09 am
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SANTA MONICA, Calif. – The romantic melodrama machine that is Nicholas Sparks keeps running at full capacity.
The prolific author, whose weepy love stories include the Hollywood hits “The Notebook” and “Dear John,” returns to the big-screen Wednesday with “The Last Song,” which he wrote specifically for Miley Cyrus.
It wasn’t just a case of writing an original movie script for Cyrus. Though the screenplay did come first, Sparks developed the story with the same detail he applies to his books. Working backward, once the script was done, Sparks sat down to write the novel.
Having already written the movie version, Sparks thought the novel would be a breeze. No such luck.
“After I wrote the screenplay, I thought, oh great, this is it. I’m going to do a novelization. Nope. That novel was so challenging to write on a number of levels that had nothing to do with the screenplay,” Sparks said in an interview.
“You want to make it its own unique work, because primarily, I am a novelist. I wanted a really good novel.”
Sparks, 44, finished the book as production was ready to start on the movie last year. The novel was published last fall.
“The Last Song” casts “Hannah Montana” star Cyrus as a sullen teen reluctantly spending a summer with her estranged father (Greg Kinnear), a pianist and composer who hopes his gifted daughter will resume her own studies at the keyboard.
Sparks let Cyrus choose her character’s name, and he wove in a few other themes and attributes in which she was interested. Cyrus never was looking over Sparks’ shoulder as he wrote, though.
“I let him do his thing. I wouldn’t want someone to do that to me when I’m songwriting. It’s very difficult when something’s not finished, and people are giving you advice,” Cyrus said. “At the end, I was definitely thrilled. If there was anything, I would have told him, but there was nothing wrong.”
As usual for Sparks’ stories, romance and tragedy mix throughout “The Last Song.” Sparks has endured his own misfortunes — his mother died in a horseback-riding accident, his father in a car crash, and his sister died of cancer.
The beefy former college track star looks more the sort to turn to action thrillers than love stories. Yet since “The Notebook” came out in 1996, Sparks has owned the teary romance genre.
“The Notebook” “was a story I thought I could write, and I had some success. So I’ve literally kept doing that over and over, and I found that it is a genre that is immensely difficult,” Sparks said. “It’s really hard to make a career out of it. And why is that? Because you read these novels with a different goal than you read other novels.
“You read thrillers because you know kind of what to expect. You know that in the end, the bad guy’s going to get caught. You read me because you don’t know what to expect. Is it going to be happy? Do they get together? Do they not? Does someone die? Does Richard Gere drive off a cliff in South America? You don’t know, and so you read for a surprise. And to be honest, the more books you write, the harder it is to surprise people.”
He’s managed to hold Hollywood’s interest. Along with “The Last Song,” “The Notebook” and “Dear John,” Sparks’ books “Message in a Bottle” and “A Walk to Remember” have been adapted into movies, while “The Lucky One” also is headed to the big screen.
Meanwhile, Sparks began his latest novel Feb. 17 and needs to finish it by May so his publisher can have it out this fall.
Does he like that sort of pressure?
“No, I do not,” Sparks said. “I’m not a happy person working under it, but I work well under it.”
Read the whole hot breaking news about Author Sparks goes Hollywood again in Last Song AP on The prolific author, whose weepy love stories include the Hollywood hits “The Notebook” and “Dear John,” returns to the big-screen Wednesday with “The Last Song,” which he wrote specifically for Miley Cyrus.
It wasn’t just a case of writing an original movie script for Cyrus. Though the screenplay did come first, Sparks developed the story with the same detail he applies to his books. Working backward, once the script was done, Sparks sat down to write the novel.
Having already written the movie version, Sparks thought the novel would be a breeze. No such luck.
“After I wrote the screenplay, I thought, oh great, this is it. I’m going to do a novelization. Nope. That novel was so challenging to write on a number of levels that had nothing to do with the screenplay,” Sparks said in an interview.
“You want to make it its own unique work, because primarily, I am a novelist. I wanted a really good novel.”
Sparks, 44, finished the book as production was ready to start on the movie last year. The novel was published last fall.
“The Last Song” casts “Hannah Montana” star Cyrus as a sullen teen reluctantly spending a summer with her estranged father (Greg Kinnear), a pianist and composer who hopes his gifted daughter will resume her own studies at the keyboard.
Sparks let Cyrus choose her character’s name, and he wove in a few other themes and attributes in which she was interested. Cyrus never was looking over Sparks’ shoulder as he wrote, though.
“I let him do his thing. I wouldn’t want someone to do that to me when I’m songwriting. It’s very difficult when something’s not finished, and people are giving you advice,” Cyrus said. “At the end, I was definitely thrilled. If there was anything, I would have told him, but there was nothing wrong.”
As usual for Sparks’ stories, romance and tragedy mix throughout “The Last Song.” Sparks has endured his own misfortunes — his mother died in a horseback-riding accident, his father in a car crash, and his sister died of cancer.
The beefy former college track star looks more the sort to turn to action thrillers than love stories. Yet since “The Notebook” came out in 1996, Sparks has owned the teary romance genre.
“The Notebook” “was a story I thought I could write, and I had some success. So I’ve literally kept doing that over and over, and I found that it is a genre that is immensely difficult,” Sparks said. “It’s really hard to make a career out of it. And why is that? Because you read these novels with a different goal than you read other novels.
“You read thrillers because you know kind of what to expect. You know that in the end, the bad guy’s going to get caught. You read me because you don’t know what to expect. Is it going to be happy? Do they get together? Do they not? Does someone die? Does Richard Gere drive off a cliff in South America? You don’t know, and so you read for a surprise. And to be honest, the more books you write, the harder it is to surprise people.”
He’s managed to hold Hollywood’s interest. Along with “The Last Song,” “The Notebook” and “Dear John,” Sparks’ books “Message in a Bottle” and “A Walk to Remember” have been adapted into movies, while “The Lucky One” also is headed to the big screen.
Meanwhile, Sparks began his latest novel Feb. 17 and needs to finish it by May so his publisher can have it out this fall.
Does he like that sort of pressure?
“No, I do not,” Sparks said. “I’m not a happy person working under it, but I work well under it.”
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Passover story goes digital – Los Angeles Times – NIMBRUNG.NET
Monday, March 29th, 2010 at 11:09 am
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Thousands of years after Moses led his people out of Egypt, the Passover story is going digital.
At Monday’s Seder meal, dozens of families will be reading the traditional tableside ceremony from a Haggadah, a text guiding the Seder, that they have personalized by uploading family photos to replace stock illustrations of Pharaoh and the slaves.
Behrman House, a Jewish educational publisher in Springfield, N.J., has sold more than 100 sets of the cyber-assisted version of its Family Haggadah.
The personalized Haggadah — the Hebrew word means “telling” or “narrative” — recounts the biblical Exodus story and instructs families to relate it to their children as though they were along on the journey.
“We see it as a way for people to make the experience their own, that they and their families are the Jewish people who went through this,” said Behrman House project coordinator Jessica Gurtman.
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Amish School Shooting News Update – World Buzz Now! – NIMBRUNG.NET
Monday, March 29th, 2010 at 12:08 am
Hot Breaking News about Amish School Shooting News Update World Buzz Now Amish School Shooting Movie News Update – There has been a movie, about a true story on the “Amish Grace, How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy,” which was wrote in a book by a couple of authors, This was based on the Amish school shooting in Pennsylvania. AS of now, THe lifetime movie network which will be airing the movie, has been into a lot of criticism, Aside from that the publisher has authorized the movie team without consulting the authors in doing the movie, They didnt want the movie adaptation because they thought of it as a respect for the community in Nickel mines. Where the Amish School Shooting took place, See the details on this Amish School Shooting Movie News Update below.
The Amish School Shooting that occured way 2006, is a very horrifying incident, For those who dont know what happened well, During October 2, 2006, a village in Bart Township of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, had a horrifying attack at west Nickel Mines School. Were five girls were killed before the shooter shot himself. We werent able to find the preview video of the Amish School Shooting Movie, But still here is a flash back for the Amish School Shooting News Update.
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Amish School Shooting Movie Receives Criticism – TPI News (blog) – NIMBRUNG.NET
Sunday, March 28th, 2010 at 11:09 pm
Hot Breaking News about Amish School Shooting Movie Receives Criticism TPI News blog A movie airing on the Lifetime Movie Network has drawn heavy criticism; it is based on the Amish school shooting in Pennsylvania. The authors of a book about these facts called “Amish Grace, How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy,” have distanced themselves from the movie saying they were against a movie adaptation out of respect for the community in Nickel Mines.
After the Amish school shooting, five girls died and five others received serious injuries in 2006. The author of the crime was Charles Carl Roberts IV. It seems the publisher of the book sold the rights to make the movie without consulting the authors.
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’80s stars Hall & Oates back in spotlight (Reuters) – NIMBRUNG.NET
Sunday, March 28th, 2010 at 9:08 pm
Hot Breaking News about 80s stars Hall Oates back in spotlight Reuters yahoo.com
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When Greg Kurstin, half of esoteric Los Angeles pop duo the Bird and the Bee, speaks of Hall & Oates, it’s in a reverent tone usually reserved for devout believers meeting a major religious figure.
Read the whole hot breaking news about 80s stars Hall Oates back in spotlight Reuters on When Greg Kurstin, half of esoteric Los Angeles pop duo the Bird and the Bee, speaks of Hall & Oates, it’s in a reverent tone usually reserved for devout believers meeting a major religious figure.
“‘One on One’ is the perfect song with the perfect production,” he says with unblinking earnestness. “I strive for that level of greatness every day.”
On March 23, Kurstin and bandmate Inara George released their homage to the pair, “Interpreting the Masters Volume I: A Tribute to Daryl Hall and John Oates,” on Blue Note. It’s the latest example of the unlikely pop-culture resurgence for the fourth-best-selling duo of all time (13 million albums shipped, according to the Recording Industry Association of America).
In the past two years, Hall & Oates’ music, which peaked chart-wise during the first term of the Reagan White House, has been featured in everything from tastemaking films like “(500) Days of Summer” to taste-questionable outlets like QVC. The driving force behind the resurgence is twofold: the giddiness of 30-something nostalgics like George and Kurstin, and the willingness of Daryl Hall, 63, and John Oates, 61, to connect with these fans in the free-flowing back-and-forth of today’s media world.
Jonathan Wolfson has been the band’s publicist for five years; he took over as their manager in 2009. He remembers being a teenager in New York, sitting in the nosebleed seats and thrilling to Hall & Oates performing “Maneater” live. Now, Hall & Oates are his sole clients, and he navigates opportunities for exposure for the act from a two-story, peach-colored strip mall in the west San Fernando Valley.
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