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Next Stop Hollywood: Short Stories Bound for the Screen
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The premise is that many popular movies were based on short stories; but magazines don't publish short stories as often as they used to, so the editors of this volume selected (#?) stories that they feel have movie potential.

My cousin Jerry Ryan (future famous writer) has a story in this collection so of course I had to read it.

His story is A.K.A. and it is an Elmore Leonard like hard boiled tale. Very good.

The other stories in the book are mostly good and it was fun reading so many different types of stories.

They are all sort of short. I think they must have been limited to twenty pages for this collection. I always think of one page of text being about one minute on film which is why novels adapted to the screen are almost always lacking in the movie version. An example of a novella that transferred nearly perfectly to the film version was The Body by Stephen King (which became Stand By Me when it was a movie.)

But then again twenty pages is probably all a producer has time to read, so there you go.

Are any of these stories going to become movies? I don't know.

Best of luck Jerry and the rest of you guys!

By the way - I am the only reviewer here that, so far, admits to being related to one of the featured authors; but if you read the rest of the review it is pretty obvious that I am not the only friend or relative posting here - you know who you are!

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Hollywood
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Jacques Lu Cont (a.k.a. Stuart Price) has again amazed me by making a great song an even better one. The main attraction of this single is definitely his Thin White Duke Mix. None of the other remixes bear any exceptional ground, and seem just to be fillers on this late US Maxi Single release. It comes with the Album version, clean of the fade out from 'American Life' - a bonus for many reasons. Both the Calderone & Quayle Glam Mix and The Micronauts Remix are runners up to Price, but don't draw the same level of material excellence.

One annoying factor on this package is that there is a horrible typographical error in the printing - Price's remix reads 'Thin White DUCK Remix' - certainly a contention of hilarity! If you are interested in more songs Price has made the better of, try the rest of his 'Thin White Duke' Remixes, especially Britney Spears' 'Breathe On Me'.

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