This is his first short story collection, published in 1978, and featuring some very famous stories thanks to the movies that came later. Stephen King got his start writing short stories, and the best selection of his stories is in the book Night Shift. Night Shift Stephen King’s Night Shift was his first short story collection. The first book sees the killer return to torment Hodges years after the officer’s retirement.Įnd of Watch brings in some of King’s supernatural storytelling, while the first book was more of a detective novel. You need to read all three books to make sense of it, but they are worth your time.īill Hodges is a former cop who had a case he never cracked concerning a man who murdered several people by running them down in a Mercedes. The book listed here is the third book in the series, which is the best. Mercedes, Finders Keepers, and End of Watch. Mercedes on the now-dead AT&T Audience network. Pic credit: Scribnerįans have had a chance to catch up with some of the Bill Hodges’ stories in the series Mr. End of Watch Stephen King’s End of Watch was the final of the Bill Hodges’ trilogy.
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20th-Century Fashion offers a retrospective of the last hundred years of style via 400 fashion advertisements from the Jim Heimann Collection. In menswear, ready-made suits signaled the demise of bespoke tailoring, long before Hawaiian shirts or skinny jeans entered the game. For women, House of Worth crinolines gave way to Vionnet's bias-cut gowns, Dior's New Look to Quant's Chelsea Look, Halston's white suit to Frankie B.'s low-rise jeans. Along the way, the signature silhouettes of each era evolved beyond recognition. The 20th century saw fashion evolve from an exclusive Parisian salon business catering for the wealthy elite into a global industry employing millions, with new trends whisked into stores before the last model has even left the catwalk. In menswear, ready-made suits signaled the. (Grandfather Sned had forgotten to lock it.) / Bill pressed the button, and Janet steered… // …When their families woke, they had both disappeared!” A multiplanet search leads to reconciliation and integration. They clambered into the Smeds’ red rocket. “Janet and Bill stole out that night / While their families slept / and the squoon shone bright. Despite parallel contemptuous commands to “Never, never play with” the other group, Janet and Bill secretly bond and grow up to marry. The illustrations’ eye-catching colors are intensely saturated throughout, sometimes jarringly so. Smeds and Smoos alike have antennae and tubular noses, but Smeds, red, have webbed feet they wear bare while Smoos, blue, sport elflike boots. Not far away, on a humplety hill, / There lived a young Smoo / by the name of Bill.” The patter and nonsense words ( wurpular, trockle) invoke Dr. “By a loobular lake on a far-off planet / There lived a young Smed, / and her name was Janet. This tale of prejudiced extraterrestrials jumps immediately into rollicking verse. Two youngsters from mutually hostile groups connect. He proved by flying a kite that lightning was electricity, and he invented a rod to tame it. He was, during his 84-year life, America's best scientist, inventor, diplomat, writer, and business strategist, and he was also one of its most practical-though not most profound-political thinkers. By bringing Franklin to life, Isaacson shows how he helped to define both his own time and ours. In bestselling author Walter Isaacson's vivid and witty full-scale biography, we discover why Franklin seems to turn to us from history's stage with eyes that twinkle from behind his new-fangled spectacles. An ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings, he seems made of flesh rather than of marble. Benjamin Franklin is the Founding Father who winks at us. Read moreĪ FEW YEARS AGO, anxious to enrich his predominantly male cast with a passionate female fan, filmmaker Ken Burns interviewed me for his documentary on baseball. But I'm still not sure what that might have contributed to her adult self. The author, though she seems quite aware of the particular social conditions under which she grew up, seems to be hewing too close to the emotions she might have experienced as a very young Dodgers fan. She was a Dodgers fan, and this seems to have cemented the bond she had with her father.but then, what? In "Wait Till Next Year," her connection with the team and the game doesn't seem to go too far beyond standard-issue sports fan tribalism. But what seems to be lacking is any analysis of why the game appealed to the author, or what she got out of it. We get some fond reminiscences about growing up on Long Island during the prosperous fifties, a description of the author's home life, and, yes, a lot about baseball. After having gotten halfway through it, though, I'm dismayed to report that there doesn't seem to be enough material in here to make a book out of. So "Wait Till Next Year" seemed like a good fit for me. I'm a guy and a baseball fan, but I've long suspected that I follow baseball like a lot of female baseball fans do: I care less about winning and statistical excellence than about the stories, personalities, culture and aesthetics of the game. It would have been more interesting to see the meat of investigations taking place rather than just hearing someone tell us about them later. It would have been more interesting to see a bit of the primary murder. It would have been more interesting to see some of the backstory with the doctors in real time. Yes, the plot turns out to be a bit complicated, as a good mystery should (otherwise there isn't much for the viewer/reader to figure out), but it's not so complicated that it can only be told through 60 or 70 minutes of talking. At times, you might feel more like you're listening to an audio book. The build up is extremely dialogue heavy. Unfortunately, although the film is never bad, the rest can't quite live up to the same standard, and viewers have to make it to the end to see an improvement. There are all of the requisite elements, such as the explanatory wrap-up, of a traditional, quality mystery film. The ending is suspenseful, well plotted and the staging even has intriguing symbolism. Despite never being able to shake its "made for television" feel, the last 20 or 30 minutes of The Cradle Will Fall are quite good-good enough to earn a 9. Based on the Mary Higgins Clark book of the same name, The Cradle Will Fall tells us the story of Katie DeMaio (Angie Everhart), who unwittingly becomes wrapped up in a complex mystery involving cheating husbands, strange doctors and murder. Decidedly unmaterialistic, Vivian would come to amass a group of storage lockers stuffed to the brim with found items, art books, newspaper clippings, home films, as well as political tchotchkes and knick-knacks. Someone who was intensely guarded and private, Vivian could be counted on to feistily preach her own very liberal worldview to anyone who cared to listen, or didn’t. A person who fit the stereotypical European sensibilities of an independent liberated woman, accent and all, yet born in New York City. Piecing together Vivian Maier’s life can easily evoke Churchill’s famous quote about the vast land of Tsars and commissars that lay to the east. The adventure begins when Crown City is attacked by armored rocket propelled men charged with finding the Amulet of Horus, an ancient medallion with infinite power. Protector of Crown City, commander of the Clandestine Wing, the fighter squadron sworn to protect the west coast at any cost. Adored by many, hated by others, Steven Hawklin is a man of action. Pilot, inventor, adventurer, know worldwide. If in the wrong hands the talisman could give the wrong nation the edge on world. The Amazing Mr Blunden, which he has written and directed, is based on the novel The Ghosts by Antonia Barber and the 1972 film of the same name. A third James story, The Mezzotint, is lined up for this Christmas.īut this year, Gatiss is set to go one step further with a second festive, feature-length project. Original story The Dead Room, about a radio presenter who is confronted by his past, followed in 2018, before another James adaptation, Martin’s Close, aired in 2019. In 2013, he wrote and directed an adaptation of The Tractate Middoth, MR James’ tale about a young student who is drawn into a family feud when a relative comes to find a mysterious book. Actor, writer and director Mark Gatiss and the team behind The Amazing Mr Blunden tell DQ why they were inspired to remake this beloved story, which serves up a festive blend of ghosts and time travel.Ī Christmas ghost story on the BBC from Mark Gatiss, the star known for his on- and off-screen work in series including The League of Gentleman and Sherlock, has become as traditional as mince pies and mulled wine in recent years. The studio has snapped up a book proposal by Paul Kix that will tell the “ wartime story of French aristocrat-turned-anti-Nazi-Saboteur Robert de la Rochefoucauld, who joined the British Special Operations Executive and was trained in every manner of dark arts before being sent back to France to help organize the resistance, blowing up train stations and munitions factories, enduring months of torture and escaping his own execution.” Yes, Rochefoucauld was a real dude and his story sounds kind of amazing. Two indie filmmakers who have been hustling recent projects- Cary Fukunaga got a fist bump from Idris Elba who’ll produce and star in his “ Beasts Of No Nation,” while Joe Swanberg‘s “ Drinking Buddies” pushes him to his biggest audience yet-are now dipping their toes into studio waters.įirst up, Fukunaga has been tapped by DreamWorks to helm “ Noble Assassin,” which will certainly see him tackling something with a bigger scope and scale. |