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Oscar Watch: Nick Hornby's Hollywood Education

by Anne Thompson | February 19, 2010 | 3 Comments

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Brit author Nick Hornby discovered the Lynn Barber memoir An Education and showed it to his producer wife, Amanda Posey, as a possible movie. He liked it so much he adapted it for the screen himself, something he has avoided doing with his own novels, three of which--High Fidelity, Fever Pitch, About a Boy--have been turned by other writers into damned good Hollywood movies. He did adapt his first novel Fever Pitch into a British movie starring Colin Firth. But otherwise he has kept some distance from Hollywood adaptations of his novels.

Now Hornby's up for an Oscar for adapting someone else. We talked on the patio of Hollywood's new W hotel about his Hollywood connection, writing to music, and his next script: an original animated film. The flip cam interview is in four parts.

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3 Comments

  • DavidC | February 20, 2010Reply

    Dixon must be a damn Yankees fan.

  • Barry | February 20, 2010Reply

    Anne, if you are interested in reading my furious denouncement of "An Education", as published in the Los Angeles Jewish Journal", just let me know. Best, BI

  • Dixon Steele | February 19, 2010Reply

    Sorry, Anne, but the Hollywood version of FEVER PITCH (Drew B. & Jimmy Fallon) was hardly good. Damned, maybe, but definitely not good.

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