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FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Lakeshore Entertainment has announced that filmmaker Barry Levinson, of Good Morning Vietnam, Rain Man, Sphere, and Wag the Dog previously, will be directing an adaptation of a noir novel called Train. Allison Burnett, of Resurrecting the Champ, Feast of Love, and Untraceable previously, will be writing the adaptation based on Pete Dexter's novel. The 1950s-set story centers on Miller Packard, a white...
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ChatzWorld - A World of Chat (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Barry Levinson will direct Train , an L.A. Confidential -style noir based on Pete Dexter's novel, for Lakeshore Entertainment.
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ComingSoon.net (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Barry Levinson will direct Train , an L.A. Confidential -style noir based on Pete Dexter's novel, for Lakeshore Entertainment.
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Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 08/29/2007
Paul Verhoeven is setting up to direct a film of Pete Dexter's 1995 novel The Paperboy. It's set in Fla. in the 1960s, and it's about newspapers, paper boys, the murder of a sheriff, and the like. A fictional county...
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film ick (Free subscription) | 08/29/2007
Paul Verhoeven's next project to actually get before cameras is to be an adaptation of Pete Dexter's The Paperboy. Set in and around Moat County Florida in the 1960s, the novel is a murder investigation/crusading journalist/serial killer mystery and Verhoeven seems like a great choice - or, more to the point, it seems like a great choice for Verhoeven. It has a whiff of The Mean Season about it
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Salon.com (Free subscription) | 03/09/2007
His nouns were concrete. His verbs were active. He listened to his subjects. Before "Paris Trout," Pete Dexter was the newspaperman's newspaperman.
