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Warren Adler Picks
The Iron Lady
The Iron Lady is an interesting example of the limits of movie biography and the manner in which contemporary political and social trends leak into motion picture storytelling. Starring the incomparable Meryl Streep, whose unique talent allows her to create and mimic the persona of the most challenging of female characters plucked from real life [...]
Will the Tablet Kill the Novel?
The electronic punditry, with their technological, elitist mindset, is now making noises that the single-use e-readers like Kindle, Nook and the SONY Reader are merely stopgap devices that will one day merge into the tablet, offering immersion reading, like the novel requires, as merely one of a million other ways to gain “information” and fill [...]
Doing Carnage to Carnage
Some, but not all live theatrical productions transfer well into movies. The movie Carnage is one of those most unfortunate cases. When I saw the award winning play, written by Yasmina Reza on Broadway, I found myself howling with uncontrollable laughter. The movie was somewhat somber and alarmingly unfunny. Briefly, the plot goes something like [...]
The Artist, the Pinnacle of the Movie Maker’s Art
There is a subtle subtext in the movie, The Artist, which powerfully grabs your imagination in ways that define the essence of storytelling and the manner in which movies can reach into the emotional truth of the human condition. Something stunningly clever is at work in the minds of the French filmmakers who have created [...]
Leaving Well Enough Alone: A Review of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
I have always enjoyed the books of John le Carré and greatly admired the elegant prose, the subtle nuanced plot constructions and robust characterizations of people engaged in conspiratorial endeavors. He was clearly a master of the narrative of the behind-the-scenes battles between the intelligence bureaucracies of the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom, the [...]
A Smorgasbord of Kinky Sex
Having read all three of Stieg Larsson’s novel trilogy featuring his super heroine Lisbeth Salander, and having seen all three of the Swedish movies adapted from those books as well as the American version, I have arrived at one conclusion. The Swedes win, at least when it comes to the first film adaptation of the [...]
So Where Do You Get Your Ideas?
I have written often about the three questions invariably asked of authors. The first two engender simple and straightforward answers: “When do you write?” A simple answer suffices marking the time of day; the second question is “How do you write?” Perhaps a bit of embellishment is needed on that one, although many of the [...]
Sex and Other Political Matters
Above all, running for the office of President of the United States in today’s climate requires a massive ego, a “skin” impervious to criticism, a quick response tongue, a willingness to be intellectually stripped down to total transparency in today’s sliced and diced universe of information, and a fearless and courageous inner core. A partial [...]
The Smart Phone Addiction
A number of my friends have returned from their Thanksgiving holidays with their families with a general complaint. It goes something like this: There was a complete lack of face-to-face communication. Family members seemed far more interested in communicating with their electronic devices and the teenagers, especially, spent their time texting, poring over their apps, [...]
J. Edgar, the Bad and the Good
After seeing Clint Eastwood’s excellent biopic, J.Edgar, I was reminded of Mark Anthony’s funeral oration in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar: “I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.” With excellent reproductions of the era and the magnificent acting of [...]
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