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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 19920209
Author:Matthew Gilbert, Globe Staff

PASSAGE TO HOLLYWOOD: The hottest writers in Tinseltown? E. M. Forster and Edith Wharton may be contenders, as film versions of their novels continue to flourish. Before long we'll see Daniel Day Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer and Winona Ryder in director Martin Scorsese's adaptation of Wharton's "The Age of Innocence"; Ben Kingsley and Kim Novak in Wharton's "The Children"; and Liam Neeson in Wharton's "Ethan Frome." This spring we'll see Vanessa Redgrave, Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson in Forster's "Howard's End," and Judy Davis, Helen Mirren and Helena Bonham-Carter in Forster's "Where ...

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