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Blog Entries by Warren Adler from 01/2012

Leaving Well Enough Alone: A Review of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

| Posted 01.10.2012
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is, in effect, a remake of the much-revered adaptation starring the late great Alec Guinness. The moviemakers should have left well enough alone.

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The Artist, the Pinnacle of the Movie Maker's Art

| Posted 01.10.2012
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Something stunningly clever is at work in the minds of the French filmmakers who have created this exquisite original.

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Doing Carnage to Carnage

| Posted 01.18.2012
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Some, but not all live theatrical productions transfer well into movies. The movie Carnage is one of those most unfortunate cases.

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Will the Tablet Kill the Novel?

| Posted 01.18.2012
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Nevertheless, the technology addiction cannot be ignored as a competitor to reading. Indeed, some prognosticators may be right in citing the eventual rise of the tablet as a device of choice for everything under the techie sun, including reading.

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The Iron Lady

| Posted 01.24.2012
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While the movie has, to my mind, numerous flaws as a film biography of a powerful political figure, I would recommend it as an interesting and sincere attempt to portray the emotional life of a legendary female politician.

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Author, Author

| Posted 01.31.2012
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Although I have been a pioneer in promoting the concept of e-books, I have been stunned by the vast explosion of self-published books.

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