Do You Know These Popular Books That Were Adapted for the Screen?

Try this short quiz that highlights the film or television adaptations of novels and memoirs that often have a sharp comic edge.

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Cher Can, and Does, Turn Back Time

In the first volume of her memoir (which she hasn’t read), she explores her difficult childhood, her fraught marriage to Sonny Bono and how she found her voice.

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Hollywood Can Be Hell for a Writer. 2 New Books Fan the Flames.

Dorothy Parker worked on the script for “A Star Is Born,” but the tragic ending was all hers, while Bruce Eric Kaplan manages to find the mordant laughs in today’s industry foibles.

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Do You Know These Sports Books That Became Movies?

Try this short quiz about screen adaptations and the source material that inspired them.

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You’ve Seen the Movie — Now Name the Book That Inspired It

This quick quiz challenges you to identify a film’s source material based on a photo. Click here to play!

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It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s Comedy Gold

In the audiobook oral history “Surely You Can’t Be Serious: The True Story of ‘Airplane!,’” a cast of dozens fondly revisits a now-classic film.

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‘Poor Things,’ the Weird Movie, Was a Weird Novel First

The Oscar-nominated film is based on a 1992 book by the prolific Scotsman Alasdair Gray. Beloved by writers, “that’s not the same as being widely read,” says one of them.

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The Filmmaker Ed Zwick Likes Books He Can’t Imagine as Movies

“Only then can I surrender to the spell of reading,” says the director of “Glory” and the author of “Hits, Flops and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood.”

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David Mamet Names the Books That Explain the Real Hollywood

“One must read between the lies,” he suggests, putting his own “Everywhere an Oink Oink” at the top of the list.

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Snapshot of a Year in the Land of Best Sellers

Surprising ascensions, Hollywood migrations and daggers to the art — it’s all part of life at the top.

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Spies: Do You Know These Books and Their Screen Adaptations?

Try this short quiz about stories of espionage, war and international intrigue that have been adapted for film and television.

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Seeing Yourself Onscreen Is Good, but Not Good Enough

In her essay collection “Wannabe,” Aisha Harris argues that Black critics can both appreciate, and demand more from, shifts in popular culture.

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Elliot Page, From Shame to Self-Acceptance, in Hollywood’s Glare

In the “brutally honest” memoir “Pageboy,” the actor recounts the fears and obstacles to gender transition, and the hard-won happiness that’s followed.

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Nice Guy Meets Iron Man in the First Novel by Tom Hanks

Whimsically chronicling the creation of a Marvel-style movie, “The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece” sags under a deluge of detail.

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For ‘Last Tango’ Actress, the Ugly Aftermath of Notoriety

In a troubling new memoir, Vanessa Schneider contends that the sexually explicit 1972 film exploited, and irrevocably hurt, her cousin.

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The Man Who Caught Marilyn Monroe’s Skirt on Film

“The American Way,” by Helene Stapinski and Bonnie Siegler, tells the story of Siegler’s immigrant grandfather — who happened on the movie star while she was filming “The Seven Year Itch” — while delving into other colorful mid-20th-century American characters.

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That’s Entertainment! Here’s a Dishy History of Hollywood.

Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson’s new book is a fat, teeming, showbiz-nerd-satisfying tome with something for every showbiz-nerd taste.

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A Posthumous Memoir Reveals Paul Newman in His Own Words

Compiled from interviews he gave to a close friend, “The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man” sheds light on the self-doubt of the seemingly imperturbable Hollywood star.

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‘Hollywood Ending,’ a Cradle-to-Prison Biography of Harvey Weinstein

In this depressing account of the former movie mogul's life, Ken Auletta looks for Weinstein's Rosebud.

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Don’t Call Her ‘Baby.’ At 62, Jennifer Grey is Taking the Lead.

The "Dirty Dancing" star speaks up about rhinoplasty gone bad, her career implosion, and why she's addressing her tale now in her memoir, "Out of the Corner."

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