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Give Our Regards to Broadway – 10 Best Books Turned Musicals
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Soundtracks Are So 2011: Hunger Games Will Feature Original 'Companion Album'
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Jan Berenstain, Co-author of The Berenstain Bears, Passes Away
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We’re Going to Need a Bigger Cake: Don Quixote Hits the Big 4-0-0
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Cervantes’s Unparalleled Influence: The Man Who Invented Fiction
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Concept Art for Terry Gilliam’s Return to ‘Don Quixote’ Leaked
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Tinsel-Taught: 5 Lessons for Writers from the Movies
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Tragic Irony: More Delays for Terry Gilliam’s ‘Don Quixote’
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Sorry, Gilliam: Disney to Adapt ‘Don Quixote’ Into Multi-Film Franchise
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Horrifying ‘IT’ Trailer Stuns SXSW Attendees
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The Influence of Don Quixote and Harry Potter on Literature
Cover detail of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, cover detail of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling Editor's Note: Martin Puchner is the Byron and Anita Wien Professor...
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Gilliam Delivers: Watch His New Don Quixote Trailer
From “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote,” by Recorded Picture Company Editor's Note: Also in the news: Making MFA writing groups more inclusive, and heralding the return of Fighting Fantasy books. It’s...
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We’re Going to Need a Bigger Cake: Don Quixote Hits the Big 4-0-0
Don Quixote de la Mancha and Sancho Panza, 1863, by Gustave Doré Happy 400th birthday, Don Quixote! Still tilting at windmills after four centuries, the idealistic, adventure-seeking and kind-of-loopy...
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Cervantes’s Unparalleled Influence: The Man Who Invented Fiction
Editor's Note: William Egginton is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and a professor of German and Romance languages and literatures at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of The...
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Concept Art for Terry Gilliam’s Return to ‘Don Quixote’ Leaked
Image via Flickreel Editor's Note: From a first look at ‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote’ to a surprise move by Johnny Depp, here’s what we’re paying attention to in today’s Daily Blunt. Terry Gilliam...
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Tinsel-Taught: 5 Lessons for Writers from the Movies
Donald O’Connor in ‘Singin’ in the Rain’/Image © Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Editor's Note: Miranda Beverly Whittemore is the author of four novels: New York Times bestseller Bittersweet; Set Me Free, which...
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Tragic Irony: More Delays for Terry Gilliam’s ‘Don Quixote’
Terry Gilliam/Photo: CC/Flickr/Colin Knowles Editor's Note: Another stumbling block for Terry Gilliam’s ‘Don Quixote,’ a look inside Rikers Island with former inmate Lil Wayne, and more to kick off...
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Sorry, Gilliam: Disney to Adapt ‘Don Quixote’ Into Multi-Film Franchise
Editor's Note: Welcome to your Daily Blunt! We’re sending you into the weekend with Herzog acting villainous, Dalí toiling in the kitchen, and Sam Neill reliving his “Jurassic Park” glory days for...
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Horrifying ‘IT’ Trailer Stuns SXSW Attendees
Bill Skarsgard in ‘It’/Image © New Line Cinema Editor's Note: The first trailer for the new adaptation of Stephen King’s “IT” is garnering a ton of chatter – and we’ve not even seen it yet! This and...
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The Influence of Don Quixote and Harry Potter on Literature
Cover detail of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, cover detail of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling Editor's Note: Martin Puchner is the Byron and Anita Wien Professor...
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