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A new and novel way to break into Hollywood ; ... AND INCIDENTALLY

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From: Evening Standard - London
Date: 20080115
Author:SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE

THE British may have triumphed at the Golden Globes, but the real winner is the publishing industry.

Most of this year's awards went to film adaptations of books: No Country for Old Men (Cormac McCarthy), Atonement (Ian McEwan), The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Jean-Dominique Bauby) and There Will be Blood (inspired by Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel, Oil!).

It used to be said that only bad books made good movies and that adapting masterpieces inevitably resulted in disappointment. Is that old saw now out of date? The above books were all acclaimed on publication. And the ongoing revival of Jane ...

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