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It was written by Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne and starred Robert Redford and Michelle Pfeiffer. Avnet addressed political issues with his fourth film Red Corner in 1997, a movie about the Chinese legal system, starring Richard Gere and Bai Ling.
Joan Didion (/ ˈ d ɪ d i ən /; December 5, 1934 – December 23, 2021) was an American writer and journalist. She is considered one of the pioneers of New Journalism , along with Gay Talese , Hunter S. Thompson , and Tom Wolfe .
Up Close & Personal is a 1996 American romantic drama film directed by Jon Avnet from a screenplay written by Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne.It stars Robert Redford as a news director and Michelle Pfeiffer as his protégée, with Stockard Channing, Joe Mantegna, and Kate Nelligan in supporting roles.
Joan Didion, who died Thursday at 87, produced decades' worth of memorable work across genres and subjects: personal essays, reporting and criticism on pop culture, political dispatches from at ...
Joan Didion's 'Play It as It Lays' is the third most popular L.A. book among writers surveyed by The Times. David L. Ulin explains why her fiction matters.
Joan Didion was a working writer, notes David Ulin, editor of her Library of America editions. She achieved greatness by struggling from job to job. Appreciation: Like the rest of us, Joan Didion ...
The release of Let Me Tell You What I Mean was highly anticipated, [2] [3] [4] coming amid a resurgence of interest in Didion's work following the publication of her two best-selling memoirs, The Year of Magical Thinking (2005) and Blue Nights (2011), and the release of the Netflix documentary Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold (2017).
Fried Green Tomatoes is a 1991 American comedy-drama film directed by Jon Avnet and based on Fannie Flagg's 1987 novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe.Written by Flagg and Carol Sobieski, and starring Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker and Cicely Tyson, the film tells the story of a middle-aged housewife who, unhappy with her life, befriends an ...