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Deadly Pleasures -- "Real to Reel" columns

In the December / January 2008 magazine of Mystery News, I began a column called "Real to Real."  Taking a "real" book and then considering the film or "reel" that came from the story.  I began coordinating a group in San Antonio over eleven years ago and presently we meet in our home once a month.  We read a specific book and then watch the film together.  In this column, I share some of the richness with the readers to consider reading or re-reading the book and then watching the film.  Some might want to accomplish this in a small group format.  This column appeared in Mystery News until they ceased publication two years later.

Deadly Pleasures mystery fan magazine then offered to continue to publish the column and you can find it in that publication.  


December  2007 / January 2008 -- Laura
     Novel: Laura by Vera Caspary, 1943
     Movie: Laura, 1944, staring: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb,
                                                  Vincent 
Price, Judith Anderson

February / March 2008 -- The Petrified Forest
     Play: The Petrified Forest by Robert E. Sherwood, 1934
     Movie: The Petrified Forest, 1934 staring: Leslie Howard, Betty Davis,
                                                                         Humphrey
Bogart
                   
April / May 2008 -- From Russia With Love
     Novel: From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming, 1957
    
Movie: From Russia With Love, 1961 staring: Sean Connery, Daniela Bianchi,
                                                        Pedro
Armendariz, Lotty Lenya, Robert Shaw


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