| 单词 | fictionalize |
| 例句 | "You want me to play a fictionalized version of my own ex-boyfriend?" Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z And though Grove would eventually release a fictionalized version called The Years of Fear, the original historical account was never published. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It's basically Tiny's slightly fictionalized life story, except it is sung, and it is—I mean, I don't use this adjective lightly—the gayest single musical in all of human history. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z Mother tells me you have given up on the tribal art book and are pleased with this one, a sort of fictionalized travelogue? Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Avon is being tracked by Stewart Proctor, the head of domestic security — “witchfinder-in-chief”— for the book’s fictionalized British intelligence service. Review | John le Carré left behind a novel, ‘Silverview.’ Does it live up to the spy master’s reputation? 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z But they are best known as the creators of the Netflix comedic drama “GLOW,” which fictionalized the production of a real television show from the 1980s called “The Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling.” With ‘Roar,’ the Creators of ‘GLOW’ Got Extra Personal. And Weird. 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z "The Jinx" is actually Jarecki's second attempt at telling Durst's bizarre life story, following the feature "All Good Things," which starred Ryan Gosling as a barely fictionalized version of the millionaire. 'The Jinx' director Andrew Jarecki knows the milieu of Robert Durst 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z It’s impossible not to love this extremely fictionalized but not-exactly-untrue story of how Burt Lancaster beat Nazis to a pulp to make sure French museums could never be beat. The 10 greatest second world war films you haven't seen 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z The fictionalized Brooks' grand takeaway from all this grieving is that he should be able to see and hear all the nice things people would say at his service while he's alive. Between "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and "Succession," TV presents the fall (and rise) of old white guys 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z We are too close to the history that gets fictionalized in "The Social Network" to grasp its significance, especially in an age when the distinction between the momentous and the ephemeral has evaporated. "The Social Network": Gatsby as a hoodie-wearing geek 2010-09-24T01:01:00Z Ulysses' son Telemachus, who grew up without his father and who, when he reached manhood, left Ithaca to search for Ulysses, becomes Stephen Dedalus, a fictionalized version of Joyce's precocious younger self. Heeding the lessons of James Joyce's "Ulysses," a century later 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z And also my conflicted feelings about what I was doing with Hana's story in fictionalizing it, and about mythologizing my father on the page. How an adopted girl's tragic death became fiction: David Guterson on "bearing witness" 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z “Radioactive,” a thoughtful, very watchable fictionalized portrait of Marie Curie, tries hard to nudge the halo off its subject. ‘Radioactive’ Review: Marie Curie and the Science of Autonomy 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z In the story, some details are true, some are loosely fictionalized, and some are completely invented. This Week in Fiction: Ben Lerner on Art, Language, and Uber 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z He and his family live in the small, picturesque town of Blacksmith, which is fictionalized. The eerie parallels between Netflix's "White Noise" and the Ohio train derailment disaster 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z Each season explores a widespread social ill filtered through the prism of a fictionalized case. Opiate for the masses: “American Crime” is better than ever and still hard to swallow 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z They will do this by constructing a fictionalized narrative where he was a “black conservative” instead of a democratic socialist. From Martin Luther King Jr. to Donald Trump: In many ways, the civil rights hero saw this coming 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z It transforms what might otherwise be a straightforward fictionalized history into something beyond a heroes and villains binary, even though it's obvious that the writers' sympathies are firmly in the feminist movement's camp. "The patriarchy will not shift": Cate Blanchett and Uzo Aduba discuss the "Mrs. America" gut punch 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z Based on the 1612 Lancashire witch trials, the novella fictionalizes the lives of the 12 witches and two men who were charged with murder and burned. Reader reviews roundup 2012-11-30T19:00:21Z So it’s the fictional and fictionalized characters at the center of the story who pay the ultimate price. You Win Or You Die: The Ruthless Beauty of Boardwalk Empire’s Finale 2013-11-25T15:53:00Z The way McKenney tells it, she fell into writing humorous sketches because she needed money while working on her passion project, a fictionalized history of the United Rubber Workers of America. In Praise of Ruth McKenney 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z His 1986 work “Hail the New Puritan” is a fictionalized work about the life of the Scottish dancer Michael Clark — who merged punk and ballet — with production design by the performance artist Leigh Bowery. Science Is on His Dance Card 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z A few show up in “American Made” either as fictionalized supporting characters or as themselves, smiling and slinking in archival images. Review: ‘American Made’ Has Lies, Spies and Coke. Tom Cruise, Too. 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z It was there that she wrote about a fictionalized version of her home—beginning with “Go Set a Watchman,” which takes place long after “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Reading Harper Lee in the wake of Charleston: Shame, defeat and the real tragedy of “Go Set a Watchman” 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z In just the few weeks since “GLOW,” a fictionalized look at the real eighties-era Gorgeous Ladies of Wresting, debuted on Netflix, its entire cast has been catapulted into a next-level echelon of fame. “Women’s stories are about kicking ass” 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z Now, in a series of tweets and a Medium post shared on Thursday, Knox is criticizing "Stillwater" for essentially retelling her story, and in this fictionalized version of her life, strongly implying her guilt. Amanda Knox calls out new Matt Damon movie "inspired" by her story: “Does my name belong to me?” 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z I’m not sure how much the fictionalized details matter. Bros in the heart of darkness: Jonah Hill and Miles Teller’s ”War Dogs” is a scathing indictment of Dick Cheney’s America 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z The receding wave of the 1960s has beached these lefties, gently, at “the Foundation,” a fictionalized version of Topeka’s Menninger Foundation, where Lerner’s psychologist parents once practiced. Ben Lerner’s ‘The Topeka School’ Revisits the Debates of the ’90s 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z "The Wind Rises" tells a fictionalized version of the life story of Jiro Horikoshi, the aeronautics expert who designed the Japanese "Zero" fighter aircraft. '22 Jump Street' sequel makes fun of everything 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z Don DeLillo memorably fictionalized the ball's ownership saga in his novel Underworld. The Holy Grails Of Baseball Collecting 2010-05-14T20:00:00Z So it gets a little gnarly at the end, it’s pretty exciting to be able to fictionalize something not so great happening that didn’t happen. Marc Maron won’t talk politics anymore: “Now I’d rather deal with the source of that anger” 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z From the first page of this debut novel, set in a fictionalized black community in North Carolina between 1941 and 1987, Winslow establishes an uncanny authority and profound tone. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z As the "Only Murders" gang quickly discovers amid their fictionalized, on-screen sleuthing, their mystery subject had friends, family, loved ones struggling to process his death. How “Only Murders” foreshadowed the Gabby Petito media circus and citizen sleuthing 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z At first they’d seem to be jokes about photography and its capacity to fictionalize and mislead. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Varney described the show as based on real events and real people, yet still heavily fictionalized with new names to shield identities. Creating a Musical Is the Best Revenge (or Catharsis) 2010-09-26T22:29:00Z It’s the fact that the fictionalized elements of the movie don’t produce increased insight into Jobs, and don’t lead to a grasp of Jobs’s spirit in exchange for the reportorial letter of his life story. Aaron Sorkin Hates Screens 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z That piece inspired her fictionalized portrait of a celebrated neighborhood fixture who "was charismatic and generous, and led a very big life for someone who barely left a twenty-block radius." Jami Attenberg novel pays tribute to big-hearted 'Saint Mazie' 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z A. It’s been the impulse in Hollywood to fictionalize it. ‘The Hot Zone’ Author Tracks Ebola’s Evolution 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z An actor playing a fictionalized version of their self often takes pains to differentiate between their true personality and the version we see on the screen. “Work in Progress” tackles queer identity comedy nearly 30 years after “It’s Pat” 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z I was trying to lightly fictionalize my life. ‘What Would You Think of Living in Luxembourg?’ 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Porco sought to stop the movie, saying Lifetime needed permission to use his name because the movie represents a fictionalized account of the 2004 crime. NY court: Lifetime can air movie on grisly killing 2013-03-21T21:10:09Z The studio got back in the game with “The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond,” a thoroughly fictionalized account of the career of a minor bootlegger and shakedown artist. DVD: How Crimes Have Changed 2011-08-12T18:43:25Z The show will be fictionalized, with no actual names being used. Cindy Crawford is Developing a TV Series About Models in the '80s 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z It’s unclear exactly how defamation laws might cover this fictionalized dialogue. 'It breaks down innocent people': the interrogation method at center of Ava DuVernay lawsuit 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z In April I reviewed a fictionalized film story of the Le Pen effect, “This Is Our Land,” which demonstrates how fascism finds an acceptable face. 3 Sobering Documentaries on Netflix, Fandor and Field of Vision 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z Such harrowing accounts make the fictionalized David Lean movie “The Bridge on the River Kwai” — which used the building of the Burma Railway as a backdrop — seem gauzily romanticized. ‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North’ by Richard Flanagan 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z Our characters were no longer fantastic and were, instead, fictionalized versions of our classmates and teachers. “What if we threatened to kill him?”: My scary creative relationship with another girl 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z Hewing closer to fact than she usually does, she still fictionalizes much, even regarding her own life. Munro’s ‘Family Furnishings’ contemplates the quotidian, however menacing 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z In "Heartburn," she thinly fictionalized herself as a food writer, scattering recipes throughout the book. Finding comfort in food, a lesson from Nora Ephron’s "Heartburn" 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z Similarly, “The Interview” doesn’t necessarily gain from using Kim’s real name rather than fictionalizing him a la Charlie Chaplin’s “The Great Dictator.” Review: ‘The Interview’ has some laughs and makes some points but isn’t as edgy as its reputation suggests 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z The fictionalized American and Mexican world of "Red Dead Redemption" has its pockets of civilization — ranches, towns, forts, even cities — but the majority of the environment is scrubland and desert, cliffs and hills. Video game: 'Red Dead Redemption' is a shoot-em-up Western 2010-07-10T01:47:00Z He read an article online about Unlocking the Truth and thought, “It would be great to make a television series or a movie about them — maybe fictionalized,” he said. Unlocking the Truth Is a Band That Rocks Beyond Its Years 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z “I sort of fictionalized it, but I think I heard that line,” Ms. Wang said. ‘Chemistry’ Is an Anti-Coming-of-Age Story 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z Jane Fonda plays a fictionalized version of the playwright and author Lillian Hellman in this historical drama. What’s on TV This Week: ‘The Thing About Pam’ and the Critics Choice Awards 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z “The Wind Rises”: Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki’s latest is a fictionalized biography of a Japanese engineer who designed a number of fighter planes. Bluegrass and break dancing at libraries | Weekend Preview 2014-02-19T23:51:15Z How did you draw a balance between fictionalizing this time in Fitzgerald’s life and remaining true to the facts? Stewart O'Nan chats about F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'West of Sunset' 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Green’s is one of several fictionalized movies in the works; another is in development by Brad Pitt’s production company Plan B and Annapurna. "Untouchable" Harvey Weinstein: Everyone agreeing with Dave Chappelle on #MeToo needs to watch 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z The new “GLOW” is a fictionalized version of how the old “GLOW” came to be. This ’80s female wrestling league was dangerous and sexist — and the best job of their lives 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z But Eco’s murder mystery is a flagrantly fictionalized work of literary commentary; his novel wants us to meditate on the canonical prohibition of laughter via an obviously fanciful imbroglio. How Archival Fiction Upends Our View of History 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Kramer’s sequel to his queered, fictionalized take on American history stands alone as another gleeful poke at the nation’s id. New & Noteworthy, From John Sayles to Julius Caesar 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z Now, the joke is on those conservative scolds: These fictionalized versions are not as easily swatted down. ‘Madam Secretary,’ ‘State of Affairs’ and Other Series Channel Hillary Rodham Clinton 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z Fails, an actor and San Francisco native, plays a fictionalized version of himself in this indie drama directed by Joe Talbot. What’s on TV Wednesday: Awkwafina and ‘The Revenant’ 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Nolan tells the story from three distinct perspectives, based on fictionalized characters. ‘Dunkirk’ director Christopher Nolan excels at building suspense. Here’s how he does it. 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z Premiering in 2000, the series was created by and stars David in a fictionalized version of himself as he stumbles into socially awkward situations. Larry David returning with more 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z Adapting James Frey’s infamously fictionalized memoir, “A Million Little Pieces,” the director Sam Taylor-Johnson niftily elides the book’s truthiness problem with an introductory quotation from Mark Twain. ‘A Million Little Pieces’ Review: Cracking Up 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Within the boat’s confines, fictionalized conversations and monologues show the characters humorously squabbling and wondering if their cinematic efforts will amount to anything. Wrestling With His Past. And an Animatronic Shark. 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z It’s categorized as fiction, and it very well might be fictionalized, but it’s also something more: It’s fan fiction. Stars: they’re just like us! Welcome to the age of celebrity fangirling 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z New Journalism is not about making things up; it is not an attempt to fictionalize the news. Gay Talese's book 'The Voyeur's Motel' got the author in hot water. But is it any good? 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z Professor Gordon-Reed, who called the musical “fictionalized biography,” said the exhibition “attempts to tell the story in broader context.” A New Kind of ‘Hamilton’ Show, This Time on Lake Michigan 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z Their colorful means of fictionalizing history's sea changes help us to better appreciate the people who made it. "The First Lady" tells the story of three revolutionary presidents' wives in an inconsequential way 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z “We wanted to leave it to the audience to decipher what’s real, what’s based on something real, what’s completely fictionalized,” Spelling said at a Television Critics Association event where networks preview new shows. 'Beverly Hills, 90210' cast promises 'drama, comedy and soap' in TV... 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Published in India in 2015, the book begins by chronicling the privatization of Bharat Copper Limited, a fictionalized version of the government-owned firm Hindustan Copper Limited. A Graphic Novelist Captures the Paradoxes of Living in the “New India” 2016-08-13T04:00:00Z The 45-year-old actor said he was eager to take on the role of the "godfather of Goth" in this fictionalized account of Poe's final days. John Cusack is Edgar Allan Poe in `The Raven' 2011-07-22T21:13:09Z But he is now very funny playing a slightly fictionalized version of himself as a spoiled Hollywood star on “Episodes,” a comedy that Showtime produced with the BBC. Television Review: An Idle Star With Time for Trouble 2011-04-13T22:47:22Z He spent his teenage years profiling bands for Rolling Stone — an experience fictionalized in the 2000 film Almost Famous — and worked as a music journalist in Seattle just as grunge started to blow up. Cameron Crowe: Hollywood?s Most Predictable DJ 2011-12-27T17:46:08Z Stephen L. Carter, the author of this fictionalized account of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, is both a law professor at Yale and a prolific writer. Review: ‘Back Channel,’ by Stephen L. Carter Guided by Fred Cookinham, tour participants will visit some of the places Rand researched and fictionalized in the novel, like Grand Central Terminal and the Helmsley Building, and learn about her life in the city. Spare Times for Jan. 31-Feb. 6 2014-01-31T00:23:14Z But Gibney never fictionalizes, and almost always works closely with both investigative reporters and his interview subjects to cover as many angles as possible. Alex Gibney on "Citizen K": Real-life thriller of an oligarch who turned against Vladimir Putin 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z Watching the fictionalized making of “The Room” is at once agonizing and inspirational. Tommy Wiseau in ‘The Disaster Artist’ wants to be taken seriously. James Franco can relate. 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z The journalist is the role model, but she is fictionalized in the story. "Holy Spider" examines a "serial killer society," in which Iranian sex workers are targeted 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z This marks the third film in two years to fictionalize Hitchcock’s imperious persona. REVIEW: The Real Scandal Around Grace of Monaco: It's Not Very Good 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z This fictionalized narrative exemplifies the limitations of the documentary’s sometimes hyperbolic emphasis on the medium at the expense of the message. ‘The Social Dilemma’ Review: Unplug and Run 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z It's fictionalized, and a more poetic approach to what I like to term as an allegorical story. Cliff Curtis on his "slow burn" Maori cop thriller "Muru" and how it's like "Avatar" 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z She was also renowned for “Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady,” a well-received, somewhat fictionalized 1985 memoir in which she plumbed the depths, and the shallows, of her genteel upbringing. Florence King, Writer Who Wielded an Acerbic Wit, Dies at 80 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z Robinson is clearly an amateur actor but is believable even in fictionalized romantic scenes involving his co-star, a very young Ruby Dee. When Athletes Go Hollywood 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z Set in a top-secret lab in Los Alamos, "Manhattan" is a fictionalized retelling of the U.S. race to build the atomic bomb during World War II. Premiere of WGN America's 'Manhattan' draws in 1.8 million viewers 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z This week the city, or at least a fictionalized version of it, becomes a setting itself, for “True Detective,” the HBO crime drama returning on Sunday. The Real Town Behind 'True Detective' Season 2 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z You can do fictionalized versions of your life. James Frey's infuriating return to "Oprah" 2011-05-16T22:30:00Z “Run This Town,” a jagged, snappy procedural that splits its time between a downsizing newspaper and a dysfunctional city government, is a fictionalized account of an actual scandal. ‘Run This Town’ Review: What Happens When the Mayor Smokes Crack? 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Three years later, a fictionalized account was told in the film “Bottle Shock.” International Designation Is Sweet Victory for Burgundy 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z Ms. Dunn’s next novel, “Cut Man,” a fictionalized account of boxing, was scheduled to be published in 2008 but was never finished. Katherine Dunn, Author of ‘Geek Love,’ Dies at 70 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z It's more that "Potemkin" pioneered what became a staple Hollywood genre, the heavily fictionalized, inspirational retelling of historical events, built around easily recognizable archetypes of good and evil. How "Battleship Potemkin" reshaped Hollywood 2011-01-12T01:32:00Z She wrote that his “fictionalized version of me is just the tabloid conspiracy guiltier version of me.” Amanda Knox blasts film ‘Stillwater’ for exploiting her case 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z That BAFTA-nominated performance, as a fictionalized version of the gay British spy Guy Burgess, was notable, according to the New York Times, for the character’s “Wildean poses of decadence.” ‘What I feel like, finally, is an artist’: How Rupert Everett reinvented his career 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Releasing the Seth Rogen comedy that features the fictionalized assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gives moviegoers a chance to see the controversial piece on schedule. Sony's decision to release 'Interview' is no tidy solution 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z And to another cohort still, she was assumed to be the inspiration for Fisher’s 1987 novel, “Postcards From the Edge,” a fictionalized memoir of Fisher's recovery from a drug overdose. Debbie Reynolds was a trouper all the way to the end 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z Cage-starring films lined up for the new year include "Pig," "Willy's Wonderland," and "The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent," in which Cage is starring as both himself and a fictionalized version of himself. Nicolas Cage to explore the origins of f*ck, sh*t, and more curse words in new Netflix series 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z The crossword puzzle test scene is fictionalized, though that was a method the government did use to recruit code-crackers at the time. The True Story of The Imitation Game 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z It’s easy to imagine the type of trouble Stewart — who told Vanity Fair that her prison nickname was “M. Diddy” — would get into if a fictionalized version of her made it to Litchfield. Orange Is the New Black: The Time Martha Stewart Almost Went to Litchfield 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z I don’t read the thinly fictionalized tell-alls of exploited au pairs, or the thinly veiled autobiographies of the rich but derailed. Michael Cunningham Thinks Most People Misunderstand ‘Lolita’ 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z Buntline fictionalized the true story of Mary Rogers, a noted beauty and "respectable" girl from Connecticut found dead near the Hudson River in 1841. How 19th-century literature spread the archetype of the "evil abortionist" 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z Even while alive he became a thinly fictionalized character in a novel by George Sand, his partner of nine years. An Ingenious Frédéric Chopin 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Here was another show featuring a stand-up comedian’s lightly fictionalized alter ego. For ‘Crashing,’ the Third Season Was the Charm. Also the End. 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z Apparently autopsies are performed with far more precision and rigor on fictionalized television than they are in the real world, where some medical examiners aren't even doctors. Bumbling in the morgue: Blind, drunk or merely incompetent coroners 2011-02-01T04:11:04Z I say forgivably because “Green Zone” seems to epitomize the ability of mainstream commercial cinema to streamline the complexities of the real world without becoming overly simplistic, to fictionalize without falsifying. Movie Review | 'Green Zone': Matt Damon Searches for That Casualty of War, Truth 2010-03-11T23:32:00Z In this fictionalized account of the surgical transition of the Danish painter Einar Wegener from man to woman, Ebershoff explores how the events might have affected Wegener’s family and life. 20 Years of L.G.B.T.Q. Lit: A Timeline 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z It’s based on the upbringing of Jimmy Fails, who plays a fictionalized version of himself, in is own big-screen debut. 2019 Breakthrough Entertainer: A star-making year for Majors 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Wrestling, however, operates on a binary morality system, with franchises built around fictionalized rivalries pitting good against evil, faces versus heels. “GLOW”: The real good girls revolt 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z It's not enough today to lob insults at barely fictionalized characters as in a roman à clef; the more-is-more satire of today demands the mauling of celebrities and even religious figures, specifically and by name. 'South Park' Muhammad Episode Sparks Rage?Again 2010-04-22T18:54:00Z Netflix describes the series as “fictionalized drama inspired by true events,” though it has resisted calls to put a disclaimer on each episode. ‘The Crown’ Could Have Damaged Charles. Becoming King Has Helped. 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Babitz’s journalism treads familiar ground for readers of her lightly fictionalized memoirs. Review | The resurgence of Eve Babitz continues with ‘I Used to Be Charming’ 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z The film, which stars Seth Rogen and James Franco, is about the fictionalized assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Before 'The Interview,' other films performed well on VOD 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z Alphonse keeps bringing up, and most likely fictionalizing, their distant personal history, while Bernard alternately denies and attempts to document his. The Power of Memories: ‘Muriel’ and ‘Cemetery of Splendor’ 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Her fictionalized take on more than 20 years’ worth of letters from T. S. Eliot to his confidante Emily Hale figures prominently in this carefully crafted novel. Dear Match Book: What Should I Read on My Summer Vacation? 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z I just didn’t want to create some fictionalized drama... Neil Patrick Harris chats about his choose-your-own-adventure memoir 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z “The Twelve Tribes of Hattie” was written in Iowa in just under two years, after Ms. Mathis abandoned a fictionalized memoir that never jelled. Buzz Over Ayana Mathis’s ‘Twelve Tribes of Hattie’ 2012-12-10T22:42:33Z The morning’s agenda: a fictionalized scene in which the increasingly desperate Mr. Cunanan tries to swim his way to safety, but quickly turns back. Darren Criss Plays the Happy-Go-Lucky Killer in the Versace TV Drama 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z The subjects were varied — life, death, his career and his filmmaking debut, with a movie about a man facing his own mortality that he calls a lightly fictionalized “love letter” to its late star. ‘Lucky’ director John Carroll Lynch on life, death — and Harry Dean Stanton 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z On the show, Louis C.K. plays a fictionalized version of himself, a stand-up comic who is divorced with two young daughters. The TV Watch: Louis C.K. Returns With His Brand of Dark Comedy 2014-05-04T21:45:12Z It is billed as a "fictionalized chronicle of the inner life of Marilyn Monroe" and certainly an examination of the celebrity culture that ate Monroe up and spit her out. "Blonde": Marilyn Monroe and viewers deserve better than this unsubtle mess of sex and suffering 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Zuckerman noted that the crime rate in New York had declined markedly in the 20 years that “Law & Order” has fictionalized the city’s seedy underbelly. One ?Law & Order? Dies, as Another Joins the Force 2010-05-14T23:55:00Z Determined that their story not die with them, he fictionalized their plight in "The Twenty-Seventh Man," the short story that led his 1999 award-winning debut collection, "For the Relief of Unbearable Urges." Writer Nathan Englander's avenging pen 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Ms. Cram’s attempt to stitch a fictionalized back story around actual events is not without imagination. Theater Review: ‘Radiance,’ by Labyrinth, at Bank Street Theater 2012-11-18T22:07:59Z His last novel, “Wittgenstein Jr.,” is a funhouse version of this one; it fictionalized the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein as a modern-day Cambridge professor, as seen through the eyes of his students. If Nietzsche Were in High School 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Several years after that film, Herzog fictionalized the story and made the adventure film "Rescue Dawn," which stars Christian "Batman" Bale as Dieter. Like 'The Wildest Dream'? Try these other adventure documentaries on DVD 2010-08-05T20:27:00Z Mr. Cooper said he deeply admired Martin Scorsese, who directed “The Departed,” a highly fictionalized telling of the Bulger story that won Oscars for best picture, director, adapted screenplay and film editing in 2007. In ‘Black Mass,’ Whitey Bulger Acquires a Glimmer of Humanity 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z Guzman's first escape was fictionalized by novelist Don Winslow in his new book, "The Cartel." The 'El Chapo' escape: When real life mimics fiction 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z This is not a spectacular picture, but it’s an informative and heartening one that might make a good double feature with “First Man,” the forthcoming fictionalized blockbuster about Apollo 11. Review: ‘Above and Beyond,’ a Heartening Salute to NASA 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Talk about how you fictionalized our grandmother’s story. Masha and Keith Gessen on Writing About Russia 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z He does this by fabricating a minutely detailed, fictionalized autobiography that documents every record he ever made, every band he ever belonged to, and that charts the entire arc of his might-have-been career. Books of The Times: A Rock-Star Life Imagined, but Never Actually Achieved 2011-07-11T22:00:32Z The Aaron Sorkin script is based on court documents and journalist Ben Mezrich's "The Accidental Billionaires," a partially fictionalized account of the company's early days. Naughty bits will stay in Facebook movie 2010-08-24T09:33:00Z This movie is a fictionalized account of the maturation of skateboarding, centered on the mid-70s skating boom in Los Angeles. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Mid90s’ and ‘Bad Moms’ 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z In fact, Witherspoon is a supporting player in The Good Lie, which fictionalizes the true, horrendous ordeal of the Lost Boys of Sudan in the 1980s and ’90s. Review: Out of Africa (and Kansas City) Comes The Good Lie 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z While he was at Yaddo, he kept thinking about the girl and the construction worker, puzzling over what he had seen, and began writing a fictionalized story about the years leading up to the encounter. ‘Mad Men’ Creator Matthew Weiner’s Foray Into Fiction 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z Indeed, the light, dry comedy is a model of minimalism in the way it follows the men, playing ever-so-slightly fictionalized versions of themselves, and their conversation through the sun-drenched Italian countryside. 'The Trip to Italy' a movable feast with Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z In her sitting room in Issy-l’Évêque, the fictionalized Irène, wearing a yellow star, recalls a quote from Osip Mandelstam: “This werewolf century flings itself on my shoulders.” A Strange and Beautiful Book About a Mother Who Disappeared 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z The biggest issue seems to be the show’s fictionalized timeline, which doesn’t always jibe with actual history. The Reality Behind That (Literally) Shocking Masters of Sex Scene 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z We took the seeds of the story, the building blocks, and then built out from there and fictionalized it. "Devil in Ohio" creator on reinventing the Satanic cult and that ending: "Is she a force for evil?" 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z If you’re going to revisit and fictionalize some juicy story out of the past, it wouldn’t hurt to remind people that it’s all a big, beautiful lie. Perspective | ‘Snowfall’ is compelling and believable — which is why it could use a disclaimer 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z The somewhat fictionalized naked rambler begins to gather followers, alarming the local police. ArtsBeat: At Edinburgh Fringe, Topical Playwriting is Seriously Up to the Minute 2012-08-22T23:28:25Z Fans believed the novels were thinly veiled accounts of actual spy stories when, in fact, they took place in fictionalized worlds with just enough inside details to feel real. When Russia was the villain: How this moment echoes the era of Cold War spy novels and ‘Rocky IV’ 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z A lightly fictionalized portrait of events leading up to Australia’s 1996 Port Arthur murders, the film is terrifyingly controlled, tipping neither toward empathy nor judgment. ‘Nitram’ Review: Slouching Toward Infamy 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z Even if there were experiences that I'd had that were informing the writing process, everything was always fictionalized and put through this process of becoming fiction. "My Dark Vanessa" author: Canceling Nabokov's "Lolita" is "missing the point" of society's problem 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z This release allowed fans to experience anew the couple’s onscreen chemistry, whether they were playing fictionalized versions of themselves or a reporter and a woman on the street. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z “I don’t think it’s unique to television; talk to me about ‘The Social Network,’ ” Mr. Lico said, referring to David Fincher’s hit film, a fictionalized account of the creation of Facebook. Dramatizing Camelot 2011-01-17T22:32:30Z Valdez fictionalized the events, added music and dance, and infused the piece with allegory, including the symbolic character of El Pachuco, representing the Latino ethos. 'Zoot Suit': How Latino theater born in the farm fields changed L.A. theater forever 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Rolling Focused on ecstasy culture in LA’s underground party scene, the fictionalized Rolling follows seven very different users who take the drug as a method of escape. Dance music on the big screen: five of the best and five of the worst films in history 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z It signifies another collective, creative voice crying out to the wilderness and demanding the nuanced approach to all people—those fictionalized and those who exist in real life. 5 Black women who profoundly changed TV in 2015 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z This week, though, he wrote an essay for BuzzFeed — it’s about the death of a close friend, a fellow wild child, someone he’d fictionalized in his own work. Books: Food and the stories we tell, plus glam rock and YA in the age of Trump 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z Ruth Wilson, a star of “The Affair” and “Luther,” plays a fictionalized version of her own grandmother in this mini-series. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Veep’ and ‘10 Things I Hate About You’ 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z “The Great” leans on facts when it wants, and fictionalizes where it must. Review | ‘The Great’ has problems balancing its extravagant snark with its dramatic impulses 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z Sadly, the uncertainty voiced by this fictionalized authorial ego is reflected in the play’s meandering construction and lack of trenchant point. | 'Leaving': A New Play by Vaclav Havel Has Its American Premiere 2010-06-08T22:24:00Z More of a poem or a city symphony than a documentary, it drifts freely, sometimes frustratingly between captured and fictionalized moments. Review: ‘Hong Kong Trilogy,’ Captures the Voices of the People 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z “Loudermilk,” a new novel by Lucy Ives, is set at a lightly fictionalized Iowa Writers’ Workshop. What We’re Reading This Summer 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z O’Connell has cerebral palsy, and his experiences with living with this disability are as central to the life of his fictionalized persona as they are is to his own. Smart Watch: Get your "Game of Thrones" TV alternatives here! 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z Picabia is a prominent character in “The Postcard,” and much of the story is told through fictionalized conversations between her and Berest. An Unsigned Postcard Named Four Family Members Who Died in the Holocaust. Why? 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z Now that the third season is here -- this is certainly the funniest season, the stories are great, and we also take a little liberty in terms of fictionalizing the world a little more. Marc Maron promises an emotionally scary (and funny) new season on IFC 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z It was only when writing “Townie” that I wrote directly about this place for the first time, and that kind of freed me up to fictionalize it. Novelist Dubus now looks homeward after gritty memoir 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z That is the plot of every episode — built around slightly fictionalized real places — yet somehow it doesn’t get old. Day Drinking with Japanese TV and comics creator Masayuki Qusumi 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z Also crowding Hazel out of her own consciousness was her father’s fictionalized version of her. A Drug-Fueled New York City Bacchanal and the Lives It Changed 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z Still, she has principles and refuses to work for a thinly fictionalized National Rifle Association, and drama ensues. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Everybody Wants Some!!’ and Charles Manson 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Her origins finally emerged in a 2017 Hollywood Reporter exposé, whose raw material the series relays through obtrusive mock interviews with characters, many of them renamed, lightly fictionalized versions of real people. Rock ’n’ Roll Swindles, Revisited 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z And then that mutated a little bit into writing slightly fictionalized versions of my own life and experiences. Q. & A.: Adrian Tomine’s Comics 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z But since we have multiple fictionalized opportunities to see city stories on the TV schedule, it would be useful to witness these truths more frequently. What if TV told the truth about Chicago? 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z The fictionalized story of the FBI's Abscam investigation amid the disco 1970s earned nominations for best movie comedy and David O. Russell for best director. '12 Years,' 'Hustle' lead Globes nominations 2013-12-12T16:01:43Z It's easy to see why that is – fictionalized tales dealing with racism are easy to brush off. Between "The Bachelor" finale and "The Talk," reality TV has shown us the toll of ignoring racism 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z “In recent years we’ve been blessed — or tormented, depending on your view — with two Emily Dickinson biopics of dubious historical fidelity, and the flagrantly fictionalized TV series ‘Dickinson.’ 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z It was from Freud’s influential, and exuberantly fictionalized, study of Leonardo that many of our false impressions spring, including the idea of the “dual Leonardo” — the artist turned scientist. What Made Leonardo Such a Great Artist? Science, Says a New Book 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z Super 8 is a sort of fictionalized memoir of his early days shooting Super-8 movies with his pal Matt Reeves. Secret's Out 2011-06-02T10:15:00Z "Dopesick" could have provided a moving fictionalized alternative for people who don't watch documentaries but still want to understand how these tiny pills came to be such a destructive force in modern society. "Dopesick" is an ineffective prescription for telling the story of the opioid crisis 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z “Aline,” a highly unusual, fictionalized film drawn from her life, drew buzz at last year’s Cannes Film Festival. 25 Years After ‘Titanic,’ Quebec’s Love for Céline Dion Will Go On 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z By the time she arrived at Pratt, she knew she wanted to make art — an awareness inspired in large part by reading Marguerite Yourcenar’s 1951 “Memoirs of Hadrian,” a fictionalized autobiography of the Roman emperor. Rochelle Feinstein Makes Work That Is Purposefully Hard to Define 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Along the way, it drew A-list comedians and actors to play lightly fictionalized — and even self-parodying — versions of themselves. Binge Your Way Through 99 Days of Summer 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z This book cover image released by Gallery Books shows "Diary of An Oxygen Thief," a 147-page fictionalized memoir first published in 2006 by a writer known as Anonymous. Unnamed 'Oxygen Thief' become self-published success 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z U.S. officials believe that the North Korean government was behind the attack as retaliation for Sony's comedy "The Interview," which is about the fictionalized assassination of leader Kim Jong Un. Steve Mosko touches on Sony hack at Digital Entertainment World expo 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z Now, what appears to be the document on which Faulkner modeled that ledger as well as the source for myriad names, incidents and details that populate his fictionalized Yoknapatawpha County has been discovered. 2010-02-11T15:09:00Z “May Allah Bless France!” is the fictionalized autobiography of the rapper and spoken word artist Abd Al Malik, who directed it. César Winners Fill Roster at Rendez-Vous With French Cinema 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z It will be the first episode of the series, in which the misanthropic comedian Larry David plays a lightly fictionalized version of himself, since the Season 8 finale in Sept. 2011. ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Announces Season 9 Return Date 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z Though their relationship is financially tenuous, it is artistically fecund, producing what we are told is a masterpiece of hand-drawn animation, a fictionalized account of Mel’s childhood called “Nashville Combat.” Review | Can a friendship between two cartoonists survive their own success? 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z “We were very much at a turning point, searching for something raw and authentic, and at the same time stylizing that ‘authenticity,’ fictionalizing it and then feeding it back into the culture. Grunge Endures as Tribute to a Creative Golden Age 2013-05-01T22:37:42Z Christopher Nicholson’s elegiac, beautifully restrained novel, a meditation on aging, marriage and loss, fictionalizes a well-known period in Thomas Hardy’s life. Six New Books, Including One by Christopher Buckley 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Every so often Mr. Wakamatsu inserts fictionalized scenes about those real students who raged against the machine and whose fanaticism became an eerie echo of the fascism of an earlier generation. | 'United Red Army': Circular Firing Squad, Run by Young Radicals 2011-05-26T21:35:10Z Sundquist was helping to cast a fictionalized version of his younger self, the lead role in “Best Foot Forward,” which debuts Friday on Apple TV+. ‘Best Foot Forward’ Is a Story About, and By, People With Disabilities 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z I did the stills for the film, so the picture was a fictionalized representation of a real event. ArtsBeat: 'Seven on Seven' Collaborators Discuss the Meeting of the Digital and Art Worlds 2012-04-13T18:51:08Z Other countries, too, have felt slighted by the fictionalized account of how a group of Americans were furtively sheltered and secreted out of Iran during the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Passing reference in 'Argo' rankles New Zealand 2013-03-21T06:46:08Z When you never quite know how much about a character is fictionalized, such precision can make the scenes feel reimagined. Hacker for Hire 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z He graduated from Cornell University and began acting in New York City in plays like “Inherit the Wind,” the fictionalized account of the Scopes trial. Steve Franken, Actor in ‘Dobie Gillis,’ Dies at 80 2012-08-30T00:03:05Z And this film is literally my biography — fictionalized, dramatized, but still my biography — merged with the work and the voice I’ve been developing while I’ve been here. Barry Jenkins on ‘Moonlight,’ a Tale of Black America and Personal Adversity 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z They read more like memoirs, or a series of lightly fictionalized journal entries, recounting the mundane lives and off-kilter ruminations of their first-person narrators, who are either postgraduate students or blocked writers. Kate Atkinson’s ‘A God in Ruins’ 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z For Cline, then, the Manson cult — fictionalized here as Russell’s psychedelic commune — offers a difference in degree but not in kind from the poisonous climate so many young women endure. ‘The Girls,’ by Emma Cline: Charles Manson, reimagined 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z Although Zhao puts Jandreau and his family and friends into a lightly fictionalized narrative, “The Rider” possesses the authenticity of documentary, with the result being a style best described as grounded grandeur. Best movies of 2018: ‘Roma’ is intimate, epic and the year’s finest 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z There are some stories that are so outrageous, why would you want to fictionalize them? Film: Alex Gibney?s ?Casino Jack and the United States of Money? 2010-04-24T02:39:00Z But even the material that we gave her for the column was completely fictionalized. It’s an It Girl! The Birth of ‘Sex and the City’ 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Now Mr. Mills has turned to his mother, in another fictionalized story, moistened with tears, that draws on his life. Review: 1 Teenage Boy and 3 Mothers in ‘20th Century Women’ 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z Less convincing is a new exhibition by the British artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, who presents a rushed and feeble new suite of oil paintings that continues her project of fictionalized portraiture. The Psychosexual World of Carol Rama Still Shocks 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z To back up: “Memories of the Future” is lightly fictionalized memoir or, in the term of the moment, autofiction. Was That Really Me? A Novelist Discovers Her Younger Self 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z Zomorod, a lightly fictionalized version of Dumas, is about to start sixth grade when she moves to Newport Beach, California, in the late 1970s. KidsPost Summer Book Club: ‘It Ain’t So Awful, Falafel’ 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z Would I not also spare those close to me the pain of seeing their lives, or some aspect of their lives, fictionalized, distorted, exploited? Philip Roth’s retirement lesson 2013-02-12T12:39:00Z In his latest novel, the “Underground Railroad” writer fictionalized the story of a Florida school where dozens of black boys were tortured and buried in a secret graveyard. Pulitzer Prizes: A Guide to the Winning Books and Finalists 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z Mysteries featuring 19th and early-20th century professional female detectives — whether based on real women or completely fictionalized ones — have been around for almost as long as their male counterparts. ‘Lady Cop Makes Trouble’: A feisty heroine inspired by a real detective 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z The fictionalized biopic “Desert Dancer” explores fascinating aspects of present-day Iran but suffers mightily from simplistic and sentimental tendencies. Review: ‘Desert Dancer’ Tells the Story of the Afshin Ghaffarian 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Marsalis, a New Orleans native who was approached a few years ago by Mr. Pritzker to provide the music for his films, said the director’s fictionalized presentation of his subjects’ lives was perfectly appropriate. A Silent Musical 2010-08-27T18:31:00Z Most of the network efforts are still fictionalized, however. NBC Announces a New True Crime 'Law & Order' 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z Even so, while Mr. Naranjo adds some real, grim statistics to the fictionalized mix, he doesn’t try to legitimize the story with documentary verismo. | 'Miss Bala': Gerardo Naranjo?s ?Miss Bala? Depicts Drug War - Review 2012-01-19T23:29:20Z It’s an audacious move, creating a heightened, hyperbolic, fictionalized view of his life, one that is certain to erase his relative anonymity for good and perhaps stir up some controversy in the process. Kenya Barris Plumbs His Id to Reinvent the Family Comedy 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z What sets apart “The Family Man,” by the writers and directors Raj Nidimoru and Krishna D.K., is its clever way of fictionalizing current events. In 2019, Netflix and Amazon Set Their Sights on India 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z In the fictionalized movie version of his life, Jonathan Larson ignores the ringing phone and lets the answering machine pick up. Cherished Words From Theater’s Encourager-in-Chief 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z In your epilogue, you mentioned the need to fictionalize certain aspects of the story. 'Mike's Place' tells the true story of terror in a Tel Aviv blues bar 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z But Behar fictionalized, or made up, some parts of the book. Childhood accident inspired writer’s career and newest book 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z But it’s not entirely a social call: The woman expresses concern that people will take Joseph’s fictionalized version of Serbian history as fact. Diary of a world premiere: Join playwright Rajiv Joseph as the curtain rises on his 'Archduke' 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z The Pink Hotel is a lightly fictionalized version of the Beverly Hills Hotel, with banana-leaf wallpaper, poolside cabanas and a famous soufflé. In ‘The Pink Hotel,’ Delusional Newlyweds Head Toward a Grand Reckoning 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z For the aficionados, it must be fun to see these real-life events portrayed so accurately, and then coupled with this are these entirely fictionalized events. How real is "Boardwalk Empire's" Al Capone? 2010-10-11T17:01:00Z The emotional truth is real — a lot of the situations or the people are embellished or slightly fictionalized, but there’s a huge amount of truth in it. Mae Martin Embraces Ambiguity in ‘Feel Good,’ and in Life 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z Alicent is a great fictionalized version of a phenomenon I've written about before: Conservative women don't enjoy living under the yoke of male dominance, but most accept it as their fate. Alicent Hightower of "House of the Dragon" is the Karen of Westeros 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z The events of the show, while fictionalized, are based on real events that took place at a school in Korea in 2006. Need more payback? 9 revenge-themed K-dramas to binge after "Beef" 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z “Asymmetry” is also the title of a novel that surprised readers, in February, with its nerve and grace—and with its starring turn from a lightly fictionalized Philip Roth. One Year of #MeToo: “He Said, She Said” Is a Literary Problem, Too 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Ms. Ephron, whose novel “Heartburn,” a fictionalized account of her divorce from the journalist Carl Bernstein, is one of the great evening-the-score books of the past 30 years, sounds both exasperated and amused. Other People?s Divorces 2010-11-29T18:50:00Z No plot summary of this fictionalized account can evoke the power and magic of the author’s ode to her people and their survival. Review | Ten books to read in March 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z From an artistic perspective, the technology has made artifice so immersive and overwhelming and everything feels like it can be fictionalized and overblown and gaudy. Comedian Mike Birbiglia on His New Movie, Sleepwalk with Me 2012-08-22T12:00:43Z With the help of a drama therapist and the documentarian Robert Greene, they revisit the scenes of the crimes, act out fictionalized versions of their memories and film them. Victory Speech (Hillary’s Version) 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z You had to play a real person in a drama, so there's a degree of wanting them to be as realistic as possible, but it's also fictionalized. Tobias Menzies on playing Prince Philip: "I didn't feel I was ever going to get a call from him" 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z To Kill a Mockingbird and The Grapes of Wrath are hardly literature; more like fictionalized social studies. Goodbye, Steinbeck; All Hail, Shelley 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z All Jeremiah knows of the West are the romantic myths that he has learned from tattered dime novels, some of which feature fictionalized tales right out of Lefty’s past. Review: The Sidekick as Hero in ‘The Ballad of Lefty Brown’ 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z And then I finally felt like I had enough distance and maturity to take these elements of my life and fictionalize them into something that wasn’t a true story. “How accidentally a fate is made”: Ed Tarkington on love and its complications, the toll of mental and physical illness — and how dark episodes become the seeds of story 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z In writing the lightly fictionalized script with Grant Heslov, and directing himself and a starry cast, Clooney has kept the tone low-key and, necessarily, anecdotal. The Monuments Men is George Clooney’s Art of War 2014-02-06T14:25:53Z He alleged that the Tuohys deceived him and profited from his fictionalized life story depicted in "The Blind Slide." Is "The Blind Side" a lie? Michael Oher's claims of an adoption that never happened, explained 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z While I fictionalized my parents’ characters, I used actual Congressional testimony and public statements for some of their real-life counterparts. Joe Gilford on His Blacklisted Parents and His Play, ‘Finks’ 2013-04-24T12:00:01Z She fictionalizes this in “Redder Blood,” but those are the contours of the kooky family we see. Small, radiant new plays in the burbs 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z OK, hundreds of movies, books, plays and novels have fictionalized the Final Solution for purposes of melodrama. A Failing Grade to X-Men: First Class 2011-06-02T17:35:00Z Ms. Jones will play a fictionalized version of Mr. Fingal’s boss. Daniel Radcliffe to Co-Star With Cherry Jones and Bobby Cannavale on Broadway 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z A chapter featuring a fictionalized take on "The Great British Bake Off" is especially entertaining. Ronan Farrow's voices (and other audiobook delights) helped me get through this year 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z His spokesman, Nick Shapiro, a longtime aide and former deputy chief of staff at the C.I.A., said the film “fictionalizes much of what happened.” ‘The Report’ and the Untold Story of a Senate-C.I.A. Conflict 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z Parini is a fine writer who refuses to be confined to any particular genre — poetry, fiction, criticism, biography — even mixing them, for example, with fictionalized accounts of Herman Melville and Leo Tolstoy. Jay Parini on the complexities and contradictions of Jesus 2014-01-15T22:18:32Z But the account, narrated by a fictionalized Chinese assistant of Vautrin's, offers little insight into the missionary's thoughts and motivations. 'Nanjing Requiem': missionary at a massacre 2011-12-14T22:51:04Z It's a complex and warmly human view of one of the most influential women of the modern era, an intimate fictionalized glimpse into the person Holden calls "the ultimate royal disruptor." Why the monarchy needed Diana: "She had to be a front-rank aristocrat, and she had to be a virgin" 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z Their fictionalized stories are told in three parts, chronologically, from the perspectives of the women. 'San Miguel': T.C. Boyle's novel of dashed dreams on a remote island 2012-09-20T20:44:04Z Meanwhile, the entertainment industry finds dozens of ways to fictionalize European history from multiple angles, the latest being inclusively casting movies and TV series that previously would have solely featured white actors. With "African Queens: Njinga" a previously overlooked history spectacularly springs into action 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z Have you ever been tempted to fictionalize “Up”? ArtsBeat: An Interview With Michael Apted 2010-12-10T17:27:00Z In speaking to the "chess match" scene specifically… this is a fictionalized event. "Hunters" creator defends show 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z She had moved on to teach elsewhere, common in the academic life, but the novel, according to my professor, fictionalized the campus and particularly the English department. Academia is dark and full of terrors in “Master” 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z She was run out of the publishing business — and Manhattan — when she sold a memoir by a Holocaust survivor that turned out to be fictionalized. | 'Sons of the Prophet': ?Sons of the Prophet? at Laura Pels Theater - Review 2011-10-21T02:14:08Z Was fictionalizing it then a way to ease up on the struggle to find who he actually was? Jon Ronson gets inside ‘Frank’s’ head In addition, she wrote and illustrated the first three “Baby-Sitters Club” graphic novels and “Drama,” a fictionalized version of her experiences in her middle school’s drama club. If your child likes comics, here’s a book list to help navigate the shelves 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z To fictionalize these lives is to take liberties with history, and it would be interesting to see that freedom to invent pushed a little further, to challenge the historical silences. ‘Vanessa and Her Sister,’ by Priya Parmar 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z It’s refreshing to see history, even fictionalized history, told from alternate perspectives, in this case those of two women who were outcasts of sorts. Review: ‘The Dovekeepers,’ a CBS Mini-Series Starring Cote de Pablo 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z To borrow a phrase about another thinly fictionalized actress — Margo Channing, in “All About Eve” — if she could walk, crawl or roll, she played. Debbie Reynolds was a trouper all the way to the end 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z Also, Naz is very much playing a fictionalized version of himself, edited and exaggerated for dramatic effect. "Every Day in Kaimuki" filmmakers on questioning contentment: "Are you happy or is this just easy?" 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z The fictionalized plot includes an East Coast filmmaker who spends most of the play raising money to make a silent movie version of “The Mission Play” with the Ramirez family’s choreography. 'They Shoot Mexicans, Don't They?' leads a monthlong look at Latino representation 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z As per the title, this fictionalized portrait is a family one. Review: In ‘The Last Family,’ a Polish Artist’s Tragic Home Life 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z A fictionalized account of one of those teams, the Rockford Peaches, this blithely feminist film stars Geena Davis, Lori Petty and Madonna as athletes struggling for respect, and Tom Hanks as their grudging manager. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Years later an author, Mr. M, wrote a fictionalized account of this true crime and the book became a huge bestseller. “I am looking forward to my downfall”: Herman Koch on life as a bestselling author 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z Apparently autopsies are performed with far more precision and rigor on fictionalized television than they are in the real world, where some medical examiners aren’t even doctors. Television Review: Bumbling in the Morgue: Blind, Drunk or Merely Incompetent Coroners 2011-01-31T23:55:38Z She sees it as a method of projection, specifically “projecting the personal fears and stressors of oneself to the collective group or external and fictionalized television characters.” Doom Watching ‘Euphoria’ 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z In October, Other Press is releasing “Wizard of the Kremlin,” a novel in translation by the Italian and Swiss writer Giuliano da Empoli that features a fictionalized President Putin. ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ Author Pulls New Book Set in Russia 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z "No one knows what was said. Some parts you have to fictionalize, so you can't be 100% factual. "I know for sure," he adds, "if people are entertained, they're going to Google it. History's 'Sons of Liberty' foment the American Revolution 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z “Bonfire,” which was published by Crown Archetype earlier this month, is Ms. Ritter’s fictionalized dive into her own rural upbringing and a thriller in the style of her favorite genre novels. Krysten Ritter Spins Her Own Mystery in Her Debut Novel, ‘Bonfire’ 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z The list also includes “The Nickel Boys,” Mr. Whitehead’s fictionalized account of the state-run Dozier School for Boys, where dozens of students were tortured. Obama Shares His Summer Reading List 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z Now “Please Continue,” Frank Basloe’s relentlessly thought-provoking fictionalized study of the people involved with the experiments, is on the stage of the Ensemble Studio Theater. Review: In ‘Please Continue,’ Human Nature Gets a Lab Test 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z The author said her book was autofiction, a form of fictionalized autobiography, but how much is true and how much is made up is left for the reader to guess. People Like Her Didn’t Exist in French Novels. Until She Wrote One. 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z Autofiction is a literary genre that describes fictionalized autobiography — essentially memoir with a license to invent. 8 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Beyond its fictionalized rehashing of Matt Lauer's sexual misconduct and the allegations of management's cover-up of his behavior at the "Today" show, it never definitively lands on one. "The Morning Show" shifts to cover the pandemic, but still needs a shot in the arm to find its soul 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Five years earlier, Günter Grass had published “Crabwalk,” a fictionalized account of the 1945 sinking of a ship bearing thousands of East Prussian refugees. 750,000 Germans Fled East Prussia in 1945. A Novelist Imagines One Family’s Exodus. 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Through all of these changes and many more, the writers reinterpret the title to encompass a feeling along with delivering a fictionalized account of a real women's professional team. "A League of Their Own" makes up for the past's missed swings, but isn't quite a home run 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z Here, it is the angelic Sarasvati “Sara” Troy who climbs her namesake, the fictionalized highest peak in the Indian Himalayas, also known as Mysterium. Review | Adventure seekers — and a few ghosts — make a dangerous trip up a mountain in ‘Mysterium’ 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z Within the perimeter of known facts, he fictionalized part of Mark's biography, including his loser status with the ladies. 'The Social Network': A Pie in the Facebook 2010-09-24T18:50:00Z First published in Spain, this page-turner is a fictionalized account of the experiences of Holocaust survivor Dita Kraus, who was a teen when she and her family were sent to Auschwitz. These books can help build strong girls — and boys — for today’s world 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z Perhaps this isn’t just a highly involving novel about a scientist’s emotional life or a slightly fictionalized ethological study. Review | ‘Theory of Bastards’ is a feminist novel, but not the one you’re expecting 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z There was certainly an exigent need to record, analyze and explain Sept. 11, but it was not at all clear if there was a parallel need to fictionalize Sept. 11. Perspective | How 9/11 altered the fiction landscape in 13 novels 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z “Closer to the Moon,” a fictionalized tale about a weird chapter in Romanian history, tries hard to slap a smiley face on a calamity. Review: ‘Closer to the Moon’ Recounts a Bizarre Bit of Romanian History 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z The lightly fictionalized screenplay seems to have been written specifically for Robert Duvall, who plays Bush as a flinty curmudgeon who wields a shotgun at strangers. 'Get Low': Perfect cast is life of the funeral party 2010-08-12T20:24:00Z As a tabula rasa, Bush presented Sittenfeld with the perfect vehicle for a fictionalized life. In ‘Rodham,’ Curtis Sittenfeld Reimagines Hillary’s Life 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z The exhibition traces her three-decade reign, interspersing short video clips from some of the many fictionalized and documentary films about her life with the objects on display. A Hermitage Amsterdam Show Looks Closer at Catherine the Great 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z The sitcom, which sat on the shelf for what seemed like a thousand years, stars Paul Reiser as a fictionalized version of Paul Reiser. Is NBC's Thursday night lineup doomed? 2011-04-15T14:15:00Z The new game, set in a fictionalized Los Angeles called Los Santos, tackles the aftermath of the credit crunch and the housing crisis for three criminals, each of whom is playable. Q. and A.: Rockstar’s Dan Houser on Grand Theft Auto V 2012-11-10T01:05:01Z Directed by Branagh, the film gives a heavily fictionalized account of Shakespeare’s later life, following the playwright as he returns to Stratford-upon-Avon after success in London. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘The Masked Singer’ and ‘Wisting’ 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z “Boardwalk Empire,” Terence Winter’s consistently downbeat yet exquisite attempt to fictionalize the rise of organized crime during Prohibition, will conclude its fifth and final season Sunday night on HBO. ‘Boardwalk Empire’s’ pitch-perfect goodbye And David Rooney, writing in The Hollywood Reporter, observed: "Morgan's take on the Queen in these fictionalized meetings is daubed in skewed sentiment, but Mirren sells it with impeccable finesse." Helen Mirren rules Broadway as Queen 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z It's a fair description of Hanks' productions, in which historical events and figures are drawn together along fictionalized story arcs, and characters have the psychological interiority of characters in novels. Tom Hanks on 'Pacific' HBO Series, World War II, History 2010-03-04T23:55:00Z Yet Davis intersperses “Consent” with fussy attempts at representing Springora’s fraying sense of self, as Matzneff creates a fictionalized version of her through his writing. In Paris, First-Person Trauma Jumps from Page to Stage 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z Action adventure video game Mercenaries 2, released in 2008, was set in a fictionalized war-torn Venezuela. Amazon's 'Jack Ryan' TV series lambasted for promoting Venezuela... 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z “The Perfect American,” Philip Glass’ fictionalized opera about the famous animator, imagined a complicated answer to that question. The opera about Walt Disney, and how Long Beach landed the U.S. premiere of 'The Perfect American' 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z The book is a fictionalized account of the men, one Israeli, one Palestinian, whose daughters were killed near Jerusalem 10 years apart. How Colum McCann Shaped Loss Into a Book 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z Much of her journey is recounted in the movie, which fictionalizes Ms. Agarwal’s story but adheres to the heart of its substance. A Bollywood Star Takes On a Global Stigma 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z There she raised three daughters after her divorce in 2010, providing the thinly fictionalized source material for her show, where she is the star, as well as the main writer and director. ‘Better Things’ Is Pamela Adlon’s Personal Gallery 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z Matthews worked 33 years in the CIA’s highly secretive Operations Directorate before retiring a decade ago and following the path of such authors as le Carre and Charles McCarry in fictionalizing their time in intelligence. Jason Matthews, author of ‘Red Sparrow’ thrillers, dies 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z Sayles' fictionalized account of the U.S. occupation of the Phillipines around the turn of the 20th century is tentatively titled "Some Time in the Sun." John Sayles has book deal for historical novel 2010-04-13T16:56:00Z I saw someone in this fictionalized political character that was trying to do something important for his city. Nicolas Cage: ‘Personal Issues Don’t Have a Place in Film Commentary’ 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z He has a scene from a fictionalized war movie where Rick Dalton cracks wise and decimates a group of Nazis with a flamethrower. "Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood" shows off Quentin Tarantino's best and worst moves 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z Catch up on “Narcos,” Netflix’s fictionalized version of the rise of the Medellín cartel in the 1980s — and the Drug Enforcement Administration agents charged with bringing it down — before Season 2 begins on Friday. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Room’ and ‘Through the Wormhole With Morgan Freeman’ 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Wolper initially made his mark as a producer of documentaries and later focused on fictionalized accounts of historical events. David L. Wolper, Producer of ?Roots? for TV, Dies 2010-08-12T04:30:00Z Lake Success is a subdivision of Great Neck — the town that, in , F. Scott Fitzgerald fictionalized into West Egg, the adopted home of his 1925 novel’s charming criminal protagonist. The Wolf of Wall Street: Scorsese and DiCaprio Fall for the Big Con 2013-12-28T00:40:27Z Now, in a year so clearly defined by the wrong stuff, “The Right Stuff” is back — this time revamped, noticeably tamed and even more fictionalized as an eight-episode streaming series on Disney Plus. Review | Whatever ‘The Right Stuff’ is, this Disney Plus adaptation could use more of it 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z She is also the veteran of previous Met Galas, real and fictionalized. At the Met Gala, Paying Homage to Rei Kawakubo 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z He meets with toppled literary wunderkind Jonah Lehrer as well as the playwright and radio presenter Mike Daisey, whose "investigation" into the conditions at Apple's factories in China was largely fictionalized. Books take two views on shame and its place in the modern age 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z But the court shot down those complaints, writing that “viewers are generally familiar with dramatized, fact-based movies and miniseries in which scenes, conversations, and even characters are fictionalized and imagined.” Perspective | Alan Dershowitz claims a fictional lawyer defamed him. The implications for novelists are very real. 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z Markley nominates 9/11 as the departure for the present and the lightly fictionalized northeast Ohio burg of New Canaan as the emblematic locus of the nation’s crackup. Review | ‘Ohio’ explains how America got into this dark mess of alienation and frustration 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Paul wants to shadow Claude at work to fictionalize his life story and “discover the humanity inside the corporate machine.” Review: New Novels by Paul Murray, César Aira and Others 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z It is always daring to set a drama in a newsroom; journalists get all tetchy about seeing their native environment outrageously fictionalized in ways that regularly happen to doctors, cops, lawyers and stay-at-home parents. Some good work, even if 'Chasing Life' races to the ridiculous 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z The men were spitballing ideas, and by the end of their discussion Brooks knew he wanted Musk to play a fictionalized version of himself in the show. Elon Musk: Guest-Starring on The Simpsons Was 'Kind of Trippy' 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z But hardly anything is formally or technically startling, and there’s a monotonous sameness to the fictionalized realism running throughout. Art Review: ‘The American West in Bronze’ at the Met 2013-12-19T22:56:12Z He added: “There’s so much that’s fictionalized or changed. It’s not a diary. A lot of those people are not even people I’ve ever met.” With ‘Significant Other,’ Joshua Harmon Happily Writes About the Unhappy 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Perhaps the least entertaining of the scripted shows is the most polished, “We Need Help,” in which the veteran character actresses Ms. Hines and Rachael Harris play fictionalized versions of themselves. Watch List: Yahoo! Screen Introduces Shows With Puppets and a Tiny Rambo 2013-09-08T21:53:03Z By authorizing the content and direction of the documentary, Jackson takes care to preserve and even somewhat redeem Joseph's legacy, one that other documentaries, specials and fictionalized versions of Michael's life have characterized as abusive. Janet Jackson is finally back in control of her rightful legacy in must-see docuseries 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z It’s just kind of like a fictionalized version of my experience. How to save the creative class: “Universal healthcare and no guns, basically” 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z Rushdie’s memoir has done this perhaps more successfully than any lightly fictionalized version would have permitted, recreating him as author, narrator, and protagonist at once: the character known and immortalized as he. “Joseph Anton”: Memoir as noir 2012-11-05T21:58:00Z It does not speak well for Ms. Donoghue’s elaborately fictionalized narrative to say that her no-nonsense factual afterword is a more interesting telling of the story. Books of The Times: In ‘Frog Music,’ Emma Donoghue Delves Into Unsolved Crime 2014-04-07T20:53:50Z The fictionalized drama is based on the biography of a Japanese woman who co-founded a famous supermarket chain and her multiple hardships from her childhood until her final days in the 1980s. Hashida, who wrote ‘Oshin,’ many other hit dramas dies at 95 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z He attentively constructs rich, human motivations and contradictions for his fictionalized renderings of John and Henry. The Gay Rights Movement Before the Gay Rights Movement 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z One suggested “Le Mage du Kremlin,” or “The Wizard of the Kremlin,” a fictionalized look at the Russian president’s inner circle. From Behind Bars, Inmates Award France’s Latest Book Prize 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z Wroth had also been party to a scandalous affair with her cousin, the third Earl of Pembroke, which she fictionalized in her two-volume romance, “Urania.” Decoding the Defiance of Henry VIII’s First Wife 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z It is a fictionalized account of a real-life queen turned warrior who dressed as a man and fought a doomed war against the British in the Indian Rebellion of 1857, which toppled the Mughal empire. Mahasweta Devi, Bengali Writer and Activist Who Fought Injustice, Dies at 90 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Limonov arrived in France in 1980, riding on the success of “It’s Me, Eddie,” a fictionalized memoir about his life in New York, translated into French as “The Russian Poet Prefers Big Blacks.” Emmanuel Carrère’s New Book Profiles Edward Limonov 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z “I would love for him to see it. He’s a real hero in it, I think. I mean, the fictionalized version of him. The child’s eye view,” she says. From 'Beasts of the Southern Wild' to 'Burnpile' at the Kirk Douglas: Lucy Alibar finds her voice 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z Drawn from the historical record but fictionalized to fill in narrative gaps, which Winter discusses in an author’s note, the book is aimed at 5- to 9-year-olds. What Ken Burns left out of his new kids’ book about presidents, and why 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z Later, he inspired the character of Sun Yuin-loong in Hahn’s book “Steps of the Sun,” a lightly fictionalized account of an American woman’s experiences as the concubine of an opium-smoking Chinese aristocrat. Getting to the Bottom of a Mickey Hahn Mystery 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z The fictionalized biopic continuation of the Ip Man saga is nowhere near as epic, fraught with drama or burnished with the lush production design of its predecessor. 'Ip Man 2': Sequel's martial-arts action beats the storytelling 2011-01-27T22:55:30Z In Furst’s second novel, set in the 1960s, a lightly fictionalized Abbie Hoffman roams through the New York City counterculture, preaching freedom from a corrupt social order while spreading damage liberally in his personal life. New in Paperback: ‘On Desperate Ground’ and ‘The Paper Wasp’ 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z This fictionalized account dwells most lovingly on the illicit affair between the heroine, compared by a contemporary to a “panther,” and the Austrian Count Charles Kinsky. History Lives in Fiction: From Jennie Churchill’s Britain to Jacksonian Cincinnati 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z In the book's introduction, Williams' friend Gore Vidal wrote that the stories were essentially a fictionalized diary for Williams, who died in 1983. Rare Tennessee Williams story published 2014-03-25T04:08:35Z Even so, much of what we see about high school life via TV and film right now is not only fictionalized but greatly fantasized and heightened, not to mention specific. White adults need to watch “America to Me,” the most important show about teens on TV now 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z Indeed, Ziegfeld is a leading character in “Funny Girl,” the fictionalized showbiz biography of Brice that won Barbra Streisand her first fame on Broadway and, later, an Oscar. Book review: ‘Ziegfeld and His Follies’ 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z Previous fiction about Washington politics mostly avoided using real names of the living people they fictionalized, from Henry Adams’s “Democracy” through Allen Drury’s “Advise and Consent.” A Comic Novel About the George W. Bush No One Knows 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z While he wanted to respect the reality of the war, Mr. Michôd also wanted the freedom to be loose with his vision, so early on he made the decision to fictionalize the characters. With ‘War Machine,’ Netflix Bets on Brad Pitt in Afghanistan 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z Bright and bouncy until it turns grim, “Bombshell” is a fictionalized account of the women who brought down Roger Ailes, the chairman and chief executive of Fox News. ‘Bombshell’ Review: Blind Ambition and Blond Sedition at Fox News 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z His other work includes a fictionalized biography of the gossip columnist Walter Winchell, a strange hybrid that is part novel, part screenplay. Michael Herr, Author of a Vietnam Classic, Dies at 76 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z In “The King of Queens,” in which Kevin James’s character works for the lightly fictionalized “IPS,” he is a jocular Everyman with a charming and beautiful wife. Dance, I Said — Dance! And Leave the Package on the Porch. 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z The obvious question is: why the fictionalized Lindsay Lohan would judge a high-school singing contest if she doesn’t love glee like her fellow judges do. Glee Watch: Lohans and Losers 2012-05-16T14:25:33Z And “Patriots Day,” which follows the bombing and investigation through a fictionalized cop played by Mark Wahlberg, opened here and a few other cities in December. ‘Patriots Day’ Disconnect Between Bostonians and the Rest of Us 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z It’s an affectionate, determinedly credible period piece with lightly fictionalized versions of people and places from the era. ‘The Breaks,’ a TV Movie on VH1, Examines the Year Hip-Hop Found Its Flow 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z The fictionalized facility, by comparison, looks like a profoundly subpar hostel. "Orange Is the New Black" gives the immigration crisis a familiar face 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z More troubling than apparently unintended irony is that Akpan’s stratagem doesn’t imbue him with enough confidence to give free rein to that historical war story in any of the fictionalized iterations with which he toys. Review | In ‘New York, My Village,’ the long shadow of Nigeria’s civil war is impossible to escape 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z But the film falters as the story swells and churns, and real people like Representative Maxine Waters of California enter the fray in clips alongside fictionalized scenes meant to look like documentary footage. ‘Kill the Messenger,’ a Film About the Reporter Gary Webb 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z A contender for most ill-timed movie of 2015 is "United Passions," a fictionalized chronicle of the life and times of FIFA, the Zurich-based international soccer alliance reeling from a bribery scandal. FIFA-bankrolled 'United Passions' kicks far wide of its goal 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z I later found out that the 1933 fictionalized novel version of the story, “The Forty Days of Musa Dagh,” was inspirational and influential to European Jews living in ghettos during the Holocaust. A Crash Course in Armenian History 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z I would say it’s almost 98 percent fictionalized. 'Transparent' Creator Jill Soloway on Making the World Safer for Trans People 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z Jozan remained mum all his life about Zelda, so Taylor’s account must rely on well-worn biographical sources and Zelda’s fictionalized descriptions in “Save Me the Waltz” and her unpublished novel, “Caesar’s Things.” Review | Did an extramarital affair inspire ‘The Great Gatsby’? One book tries to make the case. 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z How families remember and judge themselves becomes one of the novel’s richest themes, and Patchett ingeniously ties that to how novelists fictionalize other people’s lives. ‘Commonwealth’: Ann Patchett’s masterful novel of family and family secrets 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z Castro is Guatemalan, and his fictionalized persona is about as familiar with geopolitics as they are. Arturo Castro's “Alternatino": Comedy that's "leaving a little blood in the water" 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z Filled with reams of religious dialogue, the novel fictionalizes history — the 17th-century purging of Christianity in Japan — as a means to explore religious faith and cultural difference. Review: Questions and Prayers Go Unanswered in Scorsese’s ‘Silence’ 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Matt LeBlanc returns, after a hiatus, to play a fictionalized version of himself in the final season of “Episodes.” What’s on TV Sunday: The Return of ‘Episodes’ and ‘Endeavour’ 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z In his first theater role, he starred in a 1967 production of “The Great White Hope,” starring as a fictionalized version of Jack Johnson, the early 20th century’s first Black heavyweight boxing champion. Movie icon Richard Roundtree of "Shaft" dies at 81 due to cancer 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z “Yuli” uniquely blends a fictionalized account of Acosta’s life based on his memoir “No Way Home” with archive footage of the news and him dancing, and original choreographies representing chapters of his past. Cuban ballet star Carlos Acosta stars in own biopic 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z Juxtaposed against his letters home is a novel called “The Sisters Gray,” which purports to be a lightly fictionalized account of what is happening in Chicago while Zadock is on the trail. ‘Bats of the Republic’ review: Two intertwined and echoing stories 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z It takes the form of an extended cinematic essay, blending fictionalized re-enactments of plausible events with excursions into scholarship and fantasy. Review: ‘Francofonia,’ About World War II Foes Turned Allies, for the Sake of Art 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z As he explained it, I realized it’s almost exactly the same genre, sort of true crime, like a fictionalized account of things that actually occurred. Date Lab: We match two bookworms, but their date isn’t quite a romance novel 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z The actress said she will fictionalize some elements of the narrative, but the performance is inspired by her life. Lauren Weedman and the art of oversharing: New one-woman show from 'Looking' actress 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Besides, it’s not as if the fictionalized administrations currently seen in prime time would offer any comfort to Clinton or many people who voted for her. The cold comforts of “Designated Survivor” and “Madam Secretary” 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z From 2017 until this year, a fictionalized version of Mr. Bruce was a recurring character on the Amazon Prime television show “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” Julian Barry, Who Made Lenny Bruce Into ‘Lenny,’ Dies at 92 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z But now he's finding online fame in fictionalized retellings of fake battles from films and television shows -- a la Ken Burns-style documentaries -- including "Star Wars," "Pacific Rim" and "The Avengers." Phil Morris narrates Ken Burns-style 'Game of Thrones' Castle Black battle retelling 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Circumstances forced this episode to transform from one of the series' fictionalized departures into a stranger-than-fiction real story into – if not the last word on this arc – a cliffhanger at least. In a fitting finale, "The Good Fight" makes the case for nipping Jeffrey Epstein whodunit in the bud 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z To thread the different time periods, Simon employs a fictionalized hotel staff, and his solution to continuing these characters into the 2008 epilogue is shrewd and elegant. L.A.'s Central Avenue heyday evoked with panache in 'Dunbar Hotel' 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z The movie is the fifth fictional feature by this Brazilian director, whose sensational 2002 debut, “Madame Satã,” was a fictionalized biography of a notorious nightclub performer and criminal in Rio de Janeiro. A Festival Starts With the Sensual 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Seeking to cover 16 years in little more than two hours, they condense or flat-out fictionalize with a wink. ‘Diana, the Musical’ Review: Exploiting the People’s Princess 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z But it led to a long-term fallout between the siblings because of Havoc's displeasure with her sister's fictionalized portrayal of her. Actress June Havoc dies at 97 2010-03-30T02:37:00Z Another, “A Schizophrenic Gospel,” is dedicated to this same uncle—who appears and reappears as the lightly fictionalized and outrageously raucous Uncle Pepin throughout Hrabal’s mature oeuvre. The Violent Insights of Bohumil Hrabal 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Tess moves to New York and lands a job at a barely fictionalized Union Square Cafe, where Danler herself once worked. ‘Sweetbitter,’ by Stephanie Danler 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z No, but that has never been the goal of those who have fictionalized Shakespeare’s life, and it’s not necessarily Pearce’s. A new show imagines a punk rock Shakespeare — the latest of our many fantasies about the bard 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z In the novel, Mr. Stillman takes the characters and plot from Austen’s fictionalized letters and narrates the tale from the perspective of Lady Susan’s nephew, who hopes to counter criticism of his maligned aunt. Whit Stillman Discusses Austen’s Sense and His Sensibility 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z The Netflix show is a fictionalized version of one set time in your life. Anna Sorokin on ‘Inventing Anna’ and Life After Rikers 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z The title story is a fictionalized reminiscence, set in 1963, in “an apartment on the Upper West Side shared by two interracial roommates. It’s the year of ‘the human being.’ “Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?”: Kathleen Collins’s Revelatory Short Stories 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z In a fictionalized film you can work with a child actor whose character changes in some way. ArtsBeat: An Interview With Michael Apted 2010-12-10T17:27:00Z Second, there is Strauss’s fictionalized autobiography intersecting with Houdini’s life. ‘The Confabulist,’ a novel by Steven Galloway The hot toy that year in fictionalized Chicago is the Good Guy doll, a large doll with a cloth body, big round plastic face, and shocking red hair. “Child’s Play” reflects the gendered panic of boys 'n dolls 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z In a statement on Tuesday, the film’s distributor, Open Road, said: “As is the case with most movies based on historical events, ‘Spotlight’ contains fictionalized dialogue that was attributed to Mr. Dunn for dramatic effect. 'Spotlight' Makers Reach Settlement With Real-Life Figure 1462-08-28T05:00:00Z The key conceit of "Mr. Holmes" is that the detective was a real person whose exploits were fictionalized into "penny dreadfuls with an elevated prose style" by Dr. Watson. 'Mr. Holmes' smartly examines the great detective in winter 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z I really don’t understand why we have to fictionalize the Anne Frank story, when young people engage with it anyway. Fictionalized Account of Anne Frank Is Criticized for Sexual Content 2010-06-22T16:02:00Z Yet for all the paths this would seem to leave open, their sketches — about the tribulations faced by a fictionalized version of Che — inevitably end at a similar destination. Michael Che Is Still Trying to Crack the Code 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z Lindsay Lohan may not have many fans left at this point, but Franco’s fictionalized account seemed to be sending out a message of support for the wayward star. Stars: they’re just like us! Welcome to the age of celebrity fangirling 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z The peculiar case of George Edalji — slightly fictionalized in Julian Barnes’s excellent novel “Arthur & George” — focused on a purblind young lawyer of South Asian ancestry accused of mutilating farm animals. Review | Sherlock Holmes may not have been a real crime-fighter, but his creator was 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z But how the accident happened, and its enduring consequences for LaRue, are among the most fictionalized portions of the book. ArtsBeat: Thomas Mallon on the Fact and Fiction of 'Watergate' 2012-02-22T16:00:18Z When we last left “Everlasting,” the fictionalized version of “The Bachelor” whose making is the subject of the Lifetime drama “Unreal,” our groom-to-be was left jilted at the altar. “Money. D*ck. Power.”: “Unreal” deconstructs fantasies — and asks what TV looks like with women in charge 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z His publisher, Random House, had to hastily rebrand the work as fictionalized and Frey added an apologetic note to his readers. James Frey's infuriating return to "Oprah" 2011-05-16T22:30:00Z And films from "Inside Llewyn Davis" to "Dreamgirls" to "8 Mile" have taken fictionalized versions of real artists and turned them into compelling entertainment. "Her Smell": Elisabeth Moss can't save this humorless, grunge-era "Spinal Tap" knockoff 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Early on, the reader realizes it will be virtually impossible to escape Ingmar Bergman’s narrative presence, especially as Bergman fils frequently announces the ways in which he’s controlling and fictionalizing the story. Ingmar Bergman, novelist 2013-02-17T19:00:00Z Even if part of the series is fictionalized, I think those real encounters are going to help a whole lot of people understand the problem that we're facing. Netflix's "Painkiller" puts a face on the "greedy evil" at the root of America's opioid crisis 2023-08-19T04:00:00Z "Succession" is a fictionalized send-up of several media titans and wannabes, but its main inspiration is the Murdochs. "Succession" fans should be shocked by Roman Roy. He was always a terrible person with a quick wit 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z I’m also not going to show all our cards and explain why it was necessary to fictionalize certain aspects. 'Mike's Place' tells the true story of terror in a Tel Aviv blues bar 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z Never discount the pull of Hollywood royalty in this selection process, a truth that also explains the strong showing for Steven Spielberg and "The Fablemans," a fictionalized version of his life story. Still so white: The 95th annual Oscars nominations and snubs reflect some dug-in Hollywood habits 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z Now, there are scenes in the book that do take place in the Annex and for that, I was fictionalizing based on what I read. A Provocative New Novel Reimagines the Anne Frank Story 2013-08-30T22:06:01Z We’ve grown attached to these slightly fictionalized versions of the actors, and the pathos of the closing sections are both unexpected and genuine. ‘The Trip to Greece,’ ‘Moonwalkers’ and More Streaming Gems 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z The episodes this team created for “I Am the Night” are heavily fictionalized, though based on Ms. Hodel’s gripping memoir. ‘I Am the Night’: Patty Jenkins and Chris Pine Explore the Black Dahlia Mystery 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z A fictionalized pandemic prompts Edith, an artist in Britain, to hole up in her studio with a lover she has only just met. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z Granted years of access to Ronald Reagan, Morris was left so mystified that he inserted a fictionalized version of himself into the book, "Dutch," as a way of making sense out of the president. Petraeus affair and the role of biographers 2012-11-14T18:16:03Z There’s a certain amount of fictionalized autobiography here. ‘Crudo’ Is a Novel With a Real-Life Novelist in Thin Disguise 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z For now it seems Ms. Moore is comfortable with her cracks — both real and fictionalized — for the big screen. Sabattical Done, Demi Moore Returns 2010-04-16T23:12:00Z The “starring” role is indicative both of the fictionalized production’s fidelity to the truth and of its larger project: to focus on the human goodness in a case seemingly defined by its depravity. Seeking the Humanity in the Story of Kim Wall’s Murder 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z She used the real names of her family members but fictionalized other details, including her age. Marga Minco, Who Chronicled Jewish Life in Wartime, Dies at 103 2023-07-15T04:00:00Z She graphically recalled their sexual encounters — so graphically and in such conversational detail that some reviewers questioned the memoir’s veracity and suggested that she should have written a fictionalized narrative instead. Margaux Fragoso, Memoirist Who Wrote Hauntingly of Sexual Abuse, Dies at 38 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z Frey famously fictionalized large chunks of his memoir, which had originally been shopped around as a novel. Alice Sebold's "Lucky" and the problem with memoirs with happy endings 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z Instead of a modern hotel, Alan finds his assistants languishing in a sweltering tent without air-conditioning or Wi-Fi in the King’s Metropolis of Economy and Trade, a fictionalized version of King Abdullah Economic City. Review: ‘A Hologram for the King’ Is Elevated by Tom Hanks’s Portrayal of an American Everyman 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z McCann finesses “Dancer” — his fictionalized account of the life of Rudolf Nureyev — with letters and diary entries. Dear Match Book: Authors I Can Binge-Read 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z My first publication was a fictionalized account of that morning, and later a different version appeared in an anthology about life-changing moments. I may have caused my father's death 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z The scent of perfumed suds hangs heavily over “Bride Flight,” a 130-minute fictionalized quasi-epic inspired by an actual contest known as the Last Great Air Race. | 'Bride Flight?: Three Friends, Each on a Journey 2011-06-09T22:21:07Z They’ll also get a slightly fictionalized, readily digestible account of the life of Lee Miller, an American photographer whose career was encouraged and then eclipsed by her mentor, the avant-garde artist Man Ray. Review | Lee Miller was more than Man Ray’s muse 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Playing slightly fictionalized versions of themselves, the comics take a little Romantic poets’ tour and riff off each other’s impressions. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘High Maintenance’ and ‘Mean Girls’ 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z And I really wanted to look at this fictionalized town that I could literally do anything inside. Katori Hall on creating "P-Valley," demystifying sex work and the art of filming a pole dance 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z In this fictionalized version a fledgling company aspires to become Ireland’s first national theater. Theater Review: Death, Sewage ... and a Few Laughs 2011-09-25T21:13:44Z The resulting book is a novel masquerading as a fictionalized biography and painful emotional inquiry. 14 Books Coming in March 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z He wrote a fictionalized version of her in his Pat Hobby stories; she wrote about her experiences in the 1985 memoir, "Against the Current: As I Remember F. Scott Fitzgerald." Frances Kroll Ring dies at 99; F. Scott Fitzgerald's final secretary 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z The other key responsibility was to offer resolution — if we’re going to invoke him in this fictionalized way, we had to offer catharsis by the end of the series. ‘Hunters’: David Weil on Hunting Nazis as Collective Catharsis 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Keep laughing with “TOUR de PHARMACY,” at 10, a spoof from Mr. Samberg and his Legends of Sports partner, Murray Miller, about a fictionalized doping scandal during the 1982 Tour de France. What’s on TV Saturday: Andy Samberg in ‘Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping’ and ‘Tour de Pharmacy’ 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z Like Masters of Sex, it used a fictionalized version of history to tell human stories at the same time, while dramatizing the excitement of scientific discovery. Manhattan, the TV Season's Secret Weapon 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z In November, “Law and Order: SVU” took on the topic of “decades of abuse” at a fictionalized Horace Mann. Too soon for Sandy Hook: The Movie? 2013-02-06T20:00:00Z The series is based on Therese Anne Fowler’s book “Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald” and is a fictionalized version of the Fitzgeralds’ lives with a reasonable underpinning of fact and real-life figures. Review: ‘Z,’ Hardly the Last Word on the Fitzgeralds 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z The danger of fictionalizing a contentious figure lies in maintaining the delicate balance of writing a compelling character while acknowledging the truth of his real-life actions. How ‘The Crown’ shaped a generation’s view of Prince Philip 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z “True Story” is largely fictionalized, but Hart’s real life has not lacked for drama. In ‘True Story,’ Kevin Hart Really Does Kill 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z It’s a fictionalized drama about the Jane Collective, a real-life clandestine Chicago group that, starting in the late 1960s, helped women secure safe, illegal abortions, stopping only in 1973 with the passage of Roe v. ‘Call Jane’ Review: Abortion History That’s Being Repeated Now 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z A year or two later, after being fired from a screenwriting job, she put her frustrations on paper, writing a 10-episode, lightly fictionalized web series about reinventing herself as a rapper, RadhaMUS Prime. A Writer-Director-Star Breaks Through. It Only Took a Lifetime. 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z That story followed the rise of Viking Ragnar Lodbrok from farmer to king, fictionalizing the exploits of a real figure from history. Ritual love of “Vikings: Valhalla” 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z A fictionalized character named Philippe hopes he won’t have to return home to Spain and a past that scares him — but does he have what it takes to eke out a life as a creative? Review | ‘The Vexations’ revisits the eccentric life of composer Erik Satie 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z It is the most believable fictionalized story about people who spend their lives carefully presenting to the world a fictional version of themselves. A matter of character: How "The Crown" squares Charles with our longstanding villain edit 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z Even the hard-bitten police lieutenant in charge of the fictionalized case is shaken by the singular brutality of the unknown killer. Buried by Snow or Stuffed in a Suitcase: The Bodies Add Up in Marilyn Stasio’s Latest Crime Column 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z Frederick Forsyth sends a fictionalized assassin after Charles de Gaulle, and we trust him not to play fast and loose with documented history. Trump is stranger than fiction: John Altman on writing thrillers today 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z It’s distressing when a fictionalized landscape gets to the heart of dance — “Bunheads” is not unlike “Billy Elliot” — with greater ease than a reality show about a professional ballet company. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Bunheads Is Gone; ‘Breaking Pointe’ Endures 2013-09-01T22:29:35Z The Met co-commission is a fictionalized account of a British teenager who used the Internet in an attempt to arrange his own murder in 2003. Met cuts ticket prices following box office slump 2013-02-26T22:04:08Z At Hatchards, I bought her a copy of “Blitz,” part of a British “Dear America”-like series of fictionalized narratives. A Mother-Daughter Test: London, Together 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z Vanessa’s capacity to romanticize, to fictionalize, runs rampant. Girl, Interrupted 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z Cameras may not lie, but artists are by definition free to embellish, and in live-event painting, the ability to fictionalize is part of the appeal. Live-Event Artists Paint Right There 2012-11-09T22:55:18Z But he was magically light on his feet, and in this 1942 fictionalized account of the life of the Broadway impresario George M. Cohan, Cagney dances off with the entire picture. What You Should Watch This Fourth of July Weekend 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z These are vastly different situations, and not just because one happened in a fictionalized world four decades ago and the other happened in our world this week. Perspective | ‘Karens’ try to make unequal power structures work for them 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z In the past movies like François Girard’s award-winning feature “32 Short Films About Glenn Gould,” from 1993, sought to get around that problem by mixing interviews with speculative, fictionalized segments. Film: Seeking the Ordinary in the Eccentric 2010-09-03T15:14:00Z This is your third film after “The End of Love” and “Flesh and Blood” where you make a fictionalized film starring members of your family. How do you explain death to a kid? Mark Webber on fantasy and reality in "The Place of No Words" 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z Part of the genius of William Faulkner is that most of his stories are set in the same fictionalized version of Oxford, Mississippi. 8 Travel Itineraries for English Literature Lovers 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z The actor Judi Dench heightened that criticism by writing to The Times of London to say that the show’s fictionalized scenes were “cruelly unjust to the individuals and damaging to the institution they represent.” Watching ‘The Crown’ With Britain’s Anti-Monarchists: ‘I Feel Queasy’ 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z Seven years later, his life was upended when he released “The Satanic Verses,” a novel that included a fictionalized portrayal of the life of the Prophet Muhammad, with depictions that some Muslims considered blasphemous. Salman Rushdie Has a New Book, and a Message: ‘Words Are the Only Victors’ 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z There is even humor — or what qualifies as humor in a play revolving around Tarkovsky — as the barely fictionalized characters wait for the unnamed director to find the exact right light. A Birthday Tribute to the Other Ingmar Bergman 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z To rescue his career, Jaynes pursues a dubious lead: a manuscript he's sure belongs to an African American who survived the voyage Poe supposedly fictionalized in his one novel, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym." Fantasy set in frozen places: Graham Joyce's 'The Silent Land' and Mat Johnson's 'Pym' 2011-04-27T21:55:05Z He regards “Hustle,” a highly fictionalized version of the Abscam scandal of the late ’70s and early ’80s, as the third in a loose trilogy of films about ordinary people trying to live passionate lives. David O. Russell: In Conversation 2013-12-11T10:00:15Z Morocco has formed the backdrop for a fictionalized Orient in "Ishtar", doubled as Abu Dhabi in the "Sex in the City 2" and been various distant planets in Star Wars films. Moroccan road film subverts Hollywood stereotypes 2012-12-21T13:50:50Z The stories didn’t scare me when I was a child, and in these cases they’re fictionalized. “I Was Destined to Write a Gladiator Game”: A Conversation with Suzanne Collins and Francis Lawrence 2013-11-20T10:45:11Z The biggest impediment faced by fictionalized podcasts isn’t their diminution at the hands of television, but the stories themselves being swept up by the screen. In the golden age of television, can narrative podcasts compete? 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z In “Hillary and Clinton,” Mr. Hnath presents a fictionalized drama about Hillary Clinton’s initial bid for the presidency. Beyond the Trump Show? Two Political Plays in Chicago Give It a Try 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z It’s quite funny and based on “Momzillas,” a novel by Ms. Kargman, who in the series plays a lightly fictionalized version of herself. Review: In ‘Odd Mom Out,’ Competition Among Manhattan’s Wealthy 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z Even when whistleblowers do face opposition, fictionalized films depict them in a less ambiguous light. Why 2019 has been a big year for the big screen whistleblower 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Fourteen years ago, the debacle over James Frey's "A Million Little Pieces" was an indisputable humiliation for Winfrey after the highly fictionalized nature of his supposed memoir was exposed on The Smoking Gun. Has Oprah lost her touch? 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z At three minutes long, "The Tale of Thomas Burberry" is a fictionalized account of the founder's story and stars "The Revenant" actor Domhnall Gleeson as the protagonist. Burberry marks 160 years with video about founder 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z At turns autobiographical, researched, and fictionalized, they read like a hybrid of such dramatizations as “Letters from Iwo Jima” and the cartoon journalism work of Joe Sacco. Shigeru Mizuki’s War-Haunted Art and Life 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z "Social Network" is a fictionalized story telling of the rise of social networking website Facebook from an idea dreamed up in a college dormitory to its first one million users. "Social Network" sweeps national film critics' awards 2011-01-08T22:27:55Z I fictionalized Stephen Barry giving Diana advice to help her bridge this gap between herself and her husband-to-be, just to get the affair to run more smoothly. Why the monarchy needed Diana: "She had to be a front-rank aristocrat, and she had to be a virgin" 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z The Rum Diary, a fictionalized account of Hunter S. Thompson’s life as a freelancer in Puerto Rico, hits theaters on October 28. Hunter S. Thompson: A Gonzo Life In Pictures 2011-10-28T10:55:49Z Back then, too, I voraciously read Émile Zola’s early novels, which are set in a slightly fictionalized Aix called Plassans. Perspective | What is it about France? A book lover revisits his past and celebrates the present 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z No. But for us to watch any reality program at this point under the assumption that what we are seeing is somehow less fictionalized than a scripted drama is absurd. Yes, TLC, as Duggar scandal shows, life surprises. Shocker? No. 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z In August, Mr. Greenfield’s shenanigans will get another fictionalized airing, this time in a broad comedy from 20th Century Fox. Luke Greenfield, ‘Let’s Be Cops’ Director, Draws on Experience 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z It’s like an expanded, alternate version of the epilogue to Nguyen’s Off Broadway comedy “Vietgone,” which fictionalized his parents’ early years together as immigrants who fled Vietnam at the end of the war. 8 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z He added that any fictionalized material in the project’s finished scripts was “based on the fact that we had to create dialog to compact stories, which we obviously did.” ArtsBeat: 'The Kennedys' Will Still Receive Worldwide Broadcast As Producers Seek a New U.S. Home 2011-01-10T19:33:00Z In some cases, this fudging is deliberate: The new HBO series “Vinyl,” a fictionalized account of the industry in 1973, combines facts and falsehoods for the sake of dramatic tension or plot development. R.E.M.’s leap of faith: 25 years later, every curveball on “Out of Time” makes perfect sense 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z “Invisible Thread,” by Matt Gould and Griffin Matthews, is a fictionalized story inspired by the men’s experiences as volunteers in Africa. Diane Paulus to Direct a Musical for Second Stage 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z A fictionalized version of the journalist and critic Renata Adler appears in the novel as a reporter who went undercover, at great personal risk, to report on conditions in the South. She Never Existed. Catherine Lacey Wrote Her Biography Anyway. 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z I imagine the Hollywood version is very valuable to the people fictionalized therein — there is serious mythmaking that is central to our national character going on there. | Danielle Levitt's 'Pride of Lowell' 2011-02-17T21:35:53Z To whatever degree “The Lucky Ones” is fictionalized, she finds it “really lovely to be working on a true story.” A Childhood Eden Seared by Violence. Set to Music? 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z But what grows from that modest start seems to fill not only a vacant lot in a fictionalized Cleveland, but also the whole of the New Victory Theater and the rapt hearts of its audience. Review: In ‘Seedfolks,’ Harvesting Hope and Humanity in a Community Garden 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z With this, "Queen Charlotte" treads ever so lightly into territory where "Bridgerton" barely dips a toe, making the highly fictionalized version of this royal's Blackness central to the story. She is very brown: "Queen Charlotte" explains how the integrated ton was won, but what is left out? 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z In that particular episode, a suspected terrorist was freed by a misguided do-gooder lawyer — and that lawyer was working for a fictionalized version of Amnesty International. Is 24 Normalizing Real-Life Torture? 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z In the new film “American Hustle,” a fictionalized account of the Abscam scandal at the height of the disco era, the looks are over the top. Scene City: Bradley Cooper and Amy Adams Attend the Premiere of ‘American Hustle’ 2013-12-11T21:14:53Z Though fictionalized, the heartbreak in “The Salisbury Poisonings” is real, and it lingers. After ‘The Salisbury Poisonings,’ Locals Picked Up the Pieces 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z In 2002, The New York Times ended its contract with the writer Michael Finkel after he fictionalized a story about slavery in Africa. A Writer Watches His Life Unspool on Film 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z Episodes from two radio shows were also feted: the long-running comedy “Vic and Sade” and “Destination Freedom,” a program that presented fictionalized portraits of such notable African Americans as Harriet Tubman and Jackie Robinson. ‘I Will Survive,’ ‘Piano Man’ and other recordings will be preserved forever 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z Filmed in the country’s Northern Territory in collaboration with First Nations communities, the fictionalized story paints a harrowing picture of the real-life massacres of Indigenous people by white settlers and policemen in the early 1900s. Australians Took Over Hollywood. Their Own Box Office Had to Wait. 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z Nelson also eschews the narrative of unbridled heroism prescribed to the group in Mario Van Peebles’s once influential “Panther,” a highly fictionalized and haphazardly truncated account, released twenty years ago. The Most Important Legacy of the Black Panthers 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z This is a fictionalized account of a fascinating but little-known political movement: the Non-Partisan League, which organized farmers in the upper Midwest in the early 1900s. 5 unsung films that dramatize America’s rich labor history 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z Sloan, a self-proclaimed lover of hypertext, fictionalizes the mysterious figures from the blog's featured pictures and offers her own take on the novelistic form. For Maya Sloan, ghostwriting Jenners' YA book just part of fiction fun 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z That sense of portraying a moment in history — no matter how fictionalized Schiller and Verdi and his librettist made it — is part of the excitement for both singers. The Women of ‘Don Carlo’ Portray a Moment in History 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z “They made a costly, painstaking effort to recreate an era. And then having reproduced it, they laid on these sloppy anachronisms, coincidences and fictionalized history.” Searching for a great American rock show: Why is rock ‘n’ roll on TV so hard to get right? 2016-07-23T04:00:00Z “Part of me enjoyed the crisis, I admit,” she says, recalling the period she spent in lockdown with her lover, Halit, in a cathedral-like studio as a fictionalized pandemic started ravaging a fictionalized Britain. An Artist in Lockdown, Forged by Catastrophe 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z This enigma fits nicely with the marketing surrounding "Queen Charlotte" and its fictionalized realization of an inclusive British nobility. The question isn't why cast a Black Cleopatra but rather why not profile another African queen? 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z The sprawling, fictionalized Civil War-era account of the life of Thomas Greene Wiggins, a blind savant pianist born into slavery and exploited by a string of characters, doesn’t fit neatly into any one speculative genre. Dear Match Book: Genre Fiction by Black Writers, About Black Characters 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z The Enchanted Place in the fictionalized woodland was a cluster of Scots pines. The real forest that inspired the stories of Winnie-the-Pooh 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z Watching fictionalized portrayals of the job just makes me realize how remarkable the actual, real-life administration is. From ‘The West Wing’ to ‘Veep’: Chiefs of Staff, Imagined and Real 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z Maybe this is weird, but I appreciated its controlled, fictionalized simulation of the world in collapse. "Westworld" chooses chaos in apocalyptic third season finale 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z The Spaniard won for his role in Pedro Almodóvar’s “Pain and Glory,” a fictionalized account of the director’s life and career. Antonio Banderas grateful for a later-in-life Cannes award 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z “It’s a fictionalized version of what happened,” said Gordon, a writer, comedy producer, and onetime therapist. 5 reasons Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon stayed married after turning their love life into 'The Big Sick' 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z Chris knew it was going to be fictionalized and I think he would have respected that decision. Jon Ronson gets inside ‘Frank’s’ head “We were able to touch a lot of different bases by giving a lot of different people the ability to tell their story — fictionalized, but to tell their story,” says Loeb. Lisa Loeb and fellow Brown University alumni musicalize 2020 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z Geena Davis stars in this fictionalized retelling of the inaugural season of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, with all the heartbreak and good cheer of a classic sports movie. What You Should Watch This Weekend: ‘Please Like Me’ and Films Leaving Netflix 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z She read a fictionalized account of a mascot cat on the Titanic to her students a couple of years ago and considers the story valuable, even half told. Titanic a magnet for kids, fine line for educators 2012-03-21T16:27:11Z When the fictionalized C. P. is first seen, he’s chairing a Klan meeting and setting out the group’s hatreds but adding that the movement is about being “a part of something bigger” than oneself. “The Best of Enemies,” Reviewed: A Tale of Interracial Friendship Only Slightly Less Offensive Than “Green Book” 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Rather than focus on politicians and business magnates, the series revolves around three fictionalized characters: a well-connected and morally warped money launderer and two tenacious police investigators, an older man and a younger woman. Brazil’s Jaw-Dropping Corruption Scandal Comes to Netflix 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z A young Sylvia Plath lived there too, and in her semi-autobiographical novel, “The Bell Jar,” she fictionalized it as “The Amazon,” the hotel where her protagonist, Esther Greenwood, stays during a summer magazine internship. Some of America’s Most Ambitious Women Slept Here 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Mr. Parr explained in an interview that he liked the ways photographers in China fictionalized what they saw. ‘Rinehart’s Studio’ Puts a 19th-Century Sculptor’s Career in Perspective 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z When it's presented in the media it's very easy to abstract yourself and fictionalize the event. The Good King Joffrey 2013-11-08T08:23:00Z James won the 2015 Man Booker Prize for his novel “A Brief History of Seven Killings,” a fictionalized account of the 1976 assassination attempt on Bob Marley. Introducing the L.A. Times Critics-at-Large 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart,” Sylvia Plath wrote in “The Bell Jar,” her fictionalized account of her own breakdown and suicide attempt. ‘W-3,’ a Memoir That Recalls Suffering Without Sentimentality or Sensationalism 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z Both he and Peralto attended the ceremony and flew back to Spain ecstatic about collaborating again on “The Last Quixote,” a fictionalized riff on the author’s feud with fellow dramatist Lope de Vega. Around the world in several plays: Embassies get bitten by the theater bug 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z As if to highlight the artificial nature of newsworthy events, the story is punctuated with partly fictionalized fragments from the Deseronto Post, a mix of local reports, advertisements and pompous commentary on world events. ‘Tell,’ by Frances Itani 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z I am not suggesting to remove this film from future holiday watchlists, but to look at its fictionalized moral lesson with a little less worship. The harmful messaging of "It's a Wonderful Life" 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Perhaps the story’s highly fictionalized but nevertheless autobiographical kernel prompted him to allow a glimmer of redemption to pierce his own heart of darkness. Neil LaBute's 'In a Dark Dark House' homes in on troubled past 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z “I don’t know how you show a credit default swap on the screen.”—The director Oliver Stone on the choices he made in fictionalizing the financial crisis of 2008 in “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.” Arts & Leisure Preview: Jamey Johnson, 'Wall Street,' Ken Burns and More 2010-09-24T19:36:00Z DOR: And then I fictionalized it according to who I knew and who I cared about. Table for Three: The Director David O. Russell and the Designer Diane von Furstenberg Discuss the Creative Process in Film and Fashion 2014-02-07T20:13:37Z This show displays verve and promise in its depiction of the famous uprising of female assistants at a fictionalized Newsweek. Here Are the Best Pilots of the Fall Season 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z Since “True Story” — the movie, not the book — is a fictionalized rendering of real events, we can buy this version of the character. Review: ‘True Story’ Stars Jonah Hill and James Franco 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z A similar lawsuit made headlines in 2006 when James Frey, the author who fictionalized his addiction-recovery memoir A Million Little Pieces, was sued along with his publisher by readers in a few different states. Lance Armstrong, Disgraced Cyclist — and Author. New Lawsuit Targets Memoirs 2013-01-25T17:52:09Z The hope of the fictionalized young people in my novel is that through their singular desperate acts, international consciousness will be awakened. Both sides of the knife: When we speak about Palestinian violence, we ought to do so in the context of “the ongoing and daily oppression faced by some 4 million people” 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z That left Kitchen No. 3, the Lucky Peach, a fictionalized hybrid of David Chang’s tiny jewels Momofuku Ko and Ssäm Bar, where the story moves next Sunday. ?Treme? Sharpens Its Focus on Food 2011-06-04T23:30:15Z The novels “L.A. Woman” and “Sex and Rage,” both of which fictionalized much of the same material as “Eve’s Hollywood.” Review | A new look at Eve Babitz: Artist, provocateur and unlikely feminist icon 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z By telling the story through a fictionalized filial relationship, and locating the initial part of the movie in Senegal, Vadepied, the director, contrives to personalize the war’s horror for the African conscripts. Movie Honors the African Soldiers France Tried to Forget 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z The story of “The Conquest,” Xavier Durringer’s lightly fictionalized examination of President Nicolas Sarkozy’s ascent to power in France, may be Shakespearean, as its director insists in the film’s production notes. | 'The Conquest': ?The Conquest? Sarkozy Made - Review 2011-11-10T23:13:46Z With its seemingly fictionalized details, Menendez’s most recent scandal exemplifies the depth of failures in the U.S. system to protect policymaking. Bad apples vs. bad genes: The way we talk about corruption is racist 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z Both stories were based in “emotional truth,” the comedian told the New Yorker, adding that the punch line was worth the fictionalized premise. Hasan Minhaj says his stand-up stories are embellished but rooted in 'emotional truth.' Because that's comedy 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z While the timeline has been condensed and some characters are fictionalized, the film largely adheres to Mardenborough’s experiences. What’s fact and what’s fiction in 'Gran Turismo,' about a real-life gamer turned racer 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z Like the fictionalized Emily Dickinson of the Apple TV+ show, she has lovers, male and female. What Zadie Smith's new Dickensian delight tells us about the Trump base 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z In the long-running series, the two comedians, both 76, play fictionalized versions of themselves. 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