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Paul Levinson's Infinite Regress (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
"Flowers for Algernon," correctly thought by many to be one of the best novelettes ever written, turned into a novel and movies and soon a movie starring Will Smith, tells the story of mentally disadvantaged Charley, given an operation that turns him into a genius, only to slip excruciatingly back to his lower intelligence, when he and we learn that the treatment doesn't last. Daniel Keyes's...
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FilmoFilia (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Will Smith will probably star in and produce a remake of “Flowers For Algernon” an adaptation of Daniel Keyes 1959 novel of the same name which focuses on Charlie, a man with mental disabilities and a limited IQ who takes part in an experiment that turns him into a genius. Charlie Gordon is a 37 year [...]
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Entertainment News - MovieWeb.com (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
It seems he will star and produce a modern-day take on Daniel Keyes' novel.
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Watch Us Explode! (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
I guess the news of the death of his Oldboy adaptation inspired Big Willie to further action, coming in the form of an adaptation of yet another novel – this time it’s Flowers for Algernon, a science fiction story written by Daniel Keyes. Pajiba.com reports that the project is currently set up at Sony Pictures, with [...]
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io9 (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Rumor has it Will Smith's getting a brain upgrade, as the star of a new movie adaptation of Daniel Keyes' Flowers For Algernon, the novel that's so iconic it's practically become its own genre.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
We've seen Will Smith fight aggressive aliens, infectious bloodthirsty humans, and self-righteous robots, but when all is said and done, it's really awe inspiring to see him put away the guns and "Aw, hell no!" attitude when he buckles down for a serious drama. So it pleases me to see that Pajiba has a scoop about Will Smith taking on the lead role (as well as producing) a contemporary adaptation...
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Book Fetish (Free subscription) | 05/10/2009
Raven Slade is a beautiful girl. Her long blonde hair and blue eyes turn heads but behind the looks lies a very disturbed woman. Diagnosed by her father to have borderline personality disorder with histrionic personality, The world appears unreal to her, she copes with conversations with her long dead, unborn twin sister. After yet another suicide attempt, Raven awakes in yet another asylum. Her former...
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The Misadventures of Super_Librarian (Free subscription) | 28/09/2009
The American Library Association's annual Banned Books Week is going on right now, September 26 - October 3. I encourage you to visit the ALA web site , where you can find oodles of information concerning banned and challenged books. My personal feelings on the topic of censorship is that it sucks, and that every "good" public library should have something on the shelf to offend everybody....
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Bibliophile Stalker (Free subscription) | 27/09/2009
Every Monday, I'll be doing bite-sized book/magazine reviews. The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction Sixtieth Anniversary Anthology feels like a literature textbook in the sense that it features authors who are relevant to the genre, both old and new. From Alfred Bester to Ted Chiang, this book is comprehensive and could easily be a primer given to undergraduate students who are curious about...
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Classic Rock and More (Free subscription) | 07/08/2009
Esoteric Records are to re-release Tony Banks' 1979 solo debut album on October 19th. The album will be available as a remixed single disc version as well as a deluxe edition with bonus DVD featuring a 5.1 mix of the album. Esoteric Recordings are proud to announce the release of the album “A Curious Feeling” by GENESIS founder member and keyboard player TONY BANKS on Monday October 19th...
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Sci-Fi Fan Letter (Free subscription) | 05/08/2009
I'd heard that The Speed of Dark , by Elizabeth Moon, was a rewrite of Flowers of Algernon by Daniel Keyes, only with an autistic man rather than a mentally handicapped one. In one respect this is true. At the beginning of the novel the protagonist of The Speed of Dark is pressured by his company to be a subject testing a drug ostensibly designed to get rid of autism. But the novel itself is about...
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I've already had my sweetest dreams (Free subscription) | 05/08/2009
In no particular order, taking the obvious ones 'as read' (ho ho) and reserving the right to change my mind. 15 books: 1. Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl 2. Ring of Bright Water (trilogy) - Gavin Maxwell 3. Essays in Logic And Language, Volume 1 - Gilbert Ryle & Antony Flew (eds.) 4. How to Be a Minister - Gerald Kaufman 5. The Most Offending Soul Alive: Tom Harrison and his Remarkable...
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Avocado Thoughts (Free subscription) | 03/08/2009
There are a lot of books/authors that I've been told I should read some of - or that other people have talked about as being wonderful classics ... and I do mean to get round to reading them, I do. Although sometimes when I think about that my mind goes blank and then I can't think of any to read, which is a shame. So I'm going to start a coordinated project to read the books. The idea is a rate of...
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Montag ... (Free subscription) | 26/07/2009
After admiring Daniel Keyes' Flowers for Algernon since my sixties teen-age years, it finally struck me the other day why this story of a mentally challenged fella who becomes a genius and then falls back again is so compelling. (By the way, Keyes apparently posted Charlie Gordon's story in blog form - very cool!) It's so simple that it took around 40 years for me to figure it out. We're all Charlie...
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NHatky (Free subscription) | 25/07/2009
Flowers for Algernon is a science fiction short story and subsequent novel written by Daniel Keyes. The short story, written in 1958 and first published in the April 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1960.[2] The novel was published in 1966 and [...]
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