Inkwell: Authors and Artists

    
Dan, speaking of Donnie Darko, have you seen the director's cut?

I find it to be a very different movie than the original.
  

    
I've been giving my niece and nephew books like crazy since before they were
born (literally).  Emma, who's eight, recently read and loved "A Wrinkle in
Time".  I'm not going to be able to stay ahead of her anymore.
  

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Yesterday I was paging through _express_, a local daily snippets paper
put out by the Post, and there's Neil!  There was a little article
about _Anansi Boys_ there, with a picture of Neil signing stock in his
sunglasses.

If I hadn't been taking the train in to my new client's offices
yesterday, I would have missed it!

-tiny would like to thank Kevin Phinney for the pseud
  

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Birding adventure?  I'll have to read the article again.
  

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I got good news as of today... Mirrormask is at the local Landmark
theater and withing biking/public transport distance.  Yay.  Maybe an
extra birthday treat on Tuesday... 
And of course, Neil is just next door...
  

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words cannot express how much I'm loathing being stuck on a boat right
now...
  

    
I don't do boats. Not anymore.

My question: Does anybody here know anything about a Sandman movie?
  

    
Last I heard it was still in the writing acceptable script stage. 
  

    
Georgiac--DC owns the rights to sandman, so it's been in development
at Warner's (?) for quite a while.  There have been some abysmal
scripts written for it  (The Sandman as superhero sort of thing, with
him punching out bad guys, etc.)  One suggestion that Neil has
mentioned (I don't know if it was his idea or not) is to make it into a
TV series on HBO or some other cable channel, so that they would have
the freedom to deal with the adult ideas, and the time to include the
whole story.  I think that's the most sensible way to do it, but who
knows what will happen.  I keep praying that Neil's Death movie will
encourage a good Sandman flick, if there has to be one, instead of a
crappy cash-in.

Mary (still reading A Breath of Snow and Ashes and loving every minute
of it)
  

    
Really?

It was ....ok.
  

    
The last script I saw had The Corinthian stealing the jewel and
threatening to destroy the Sandman and the Dreaming and Dream deciding
to have sex with Rose to 'blend their souls' in order to beat the
Corinthian. You know, ye old 'if you fuck me we can save the world'
line. It was truly appalling. And that was a serious script.
  

    
Back in 1996 Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio wrote a script which didn't
completely suck - but is still miles from the original source.

http://www.wordplayer.com/archives/SANDMAN.cover.html

If you use the search engine on Neil's site:
http://www.neilgaiman.com/search/search.asp

you'll get a bunch of comments from Neil that basically say he has
nothing to do with the movie anymore.
  

    
(I happened to see studio notes on that script.  Every place it came
closest to the source, the studio wanted, rather desperately, to change
it.)
  

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slf--the Diana Gabaldon?  or the script?  I need escapism right now,
and Ms. Gabaldon is whisking me away with Clare and Jaime every chance
I get  ;-)
  

    
The Diana.

I'm dying for people to talk about it with.
  

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We saw Diana Gabaldon in DC at the National Book Expo.  I enjoyed
hearing her talk so much that I bought Outlander.  I'm slowly reading
it while being distracted by other things.
  

    
My crusty old choir director, the *last* person in the world who would
read a "romance" book (which is what I thought they were, really)
recommended them to me about 3 books into the series, and I adore them.
 I would love to go to one of Ms. Gabaldon's reading's--I'll bet she's
quite entertaining.

I love the amount of research she does--I've never been a fan of
American history, so I'm learning a lot from this novel (it's set in
North Carolina 1774-1776).

I should go look and see if there's a topic for her or any of her
books.......

M.
  

    
BTW  Did anyone sign up for Nanowrimo?  There's a group forming over
in salonTTBooks.
  

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