Infotainment Aug 16, 2009
Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan. Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan said he was detained for questioning at a US airport because he has a Muslim name. (Daily Times, Pakistan)
Winslet game for 'Mildred Pierce' Aug 14, 2009
Kate Winslet is attached to "Mildred Pierce," a miniseries adaptation based on the James M. Cain novel that Todd Haynes is writing and directing. Sources said that HBO is the lead contender to get the mini, but payweb sources said no deal has been struck. (Variety)
'Jerichow' movie review - 'Jerichow' showtimes Jul 3, 2009
Most of Jerichow is eerily reminiscent of James M. Cain s novel The Postman Always Rings Twice. The suspense even comes from a similar place: Will these two get caught. (Boston Globe)
Noir Tour, Seeing L.A. From Under a Fedora Jun 3, 2009
The sites that shaped the works of classic L.A. noir writers John Fante ("Ask the Dust") and James M. Cain ("Double Indemnity") are also included. The great L.A. crime novelist James Ellroy has even climbed aboard the bus himself a couple times to show riders the places that inspired works like "L.A. Confidential" and "The Big Nowhere.". (Fox News)
60 books later... May 21, 2009
He recalls James M. Cain (The Postman Always Rings Twice), who was asked about what Hollywood had done to his novels: "Hollywood hasn't done anything to my books. They are right there on the shelf, exactly as I wrote them.". Posted. (USA Today)
Lolo crime novelist shares award with Grafton May 3, 2009
"James M. Cain (the 1970 Grand Master) who wrote things like Double Indemnity' and The Postman Always Rings Twice' has no peer as far as I'm concerned. I feel extremely grateful and humbled." And, like many writers, it's something he never would have imagined at one point in his career. Burke once went 11 years between published novels, and "The Lost Get-Back Boogie" was famously rejected by 111 publishers over nine long years before a college press agreed to put it out. (Montana Standard, MT)
Double Indemnity Mar 27, 2009
Billy Wilder and hard-boiled detective novelist Raymond Chandler coauthored a screenplay (based on James M. Cain s story) with dialogue that s as delicious as it is biting, with lines like murder smells like honeysuckle. " Both Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck were romantic types who hesitantly took on the roles of the cynical layman and sultry vixen, respectively, and the risk paid off. MacMurray s transition from cocksure to nervous stiff is as fluid as they come. You may not see beads of... (New York Post -- Entertainment)
