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To: Nandu who wrote (10275)	12/24/1999 10:56:00 AM
From: Hans U. Tschanz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

Mohan and everyone. Have a happy holiday and a good start into the new millenium and thank you for the excellent information you are posting on this thread. Hans

To: Nandu who wrote (10275)	12/25/1999 10:39:00 AM
From: JPR	Respond to of 12475

Nandu: M. Night Shyamalan"' Night wrote the screenplay for Stuart Little - based on EB White's Stuart Little Of Mouse and Man: Rebirth of Stuart Little nytimes.com By RICK LYMAN OLLYWOOD, Dec. 24 -- M. Night Shyamalan was sitting in a rest stop restaurant on the New Jersey Turnpike having something to eat and watching CNN on one of the television sets that give travelers something to stare at while they chew. "A story came on about this little boy who had ears so big that his parents used to tape them back and how traumatic it all was for him," said Mr. Shyamalan (pronounced shy-ah-MELL-inn). He stopped chewing. He thought about it. And while he didn't shout "Eureka!" there was an immediate sense of happy discovery. Mr. Shyamalan, who has since become famous as the writer and director of "The Sixth Sense," one of 1999's biggest box office successes, was at the time an ambitious screenwriter hard at work on finding a way to translate E. B. White's classic children's tale, "Stuart Little," to the screen. The task had thus far stymied Mr. Shyamalan, as it had other screenwriters who had taken a stab at adapting White's picaresque tale of a mouse-child's adventures in the larger world. "I thought, hey, we could make this a movie about a person who doesn't belong, who doesn't feel like they fit in," said Mr. Shyamalan, who lives in a suburb of Philadelphia. "I felt all kids could relate to that." Every year, but especially during the holiday season, when Hollywood turns out most of its prestige, Oscar-yearning movies, a significant percentage of which are almost always based on classic books and recent best sellers, screenwriters like Mr. Shyamalan are faced with figuring out how to translate the printed word into images and sounds. In some cases, like "Stuart Little," it is a particularly difficult process because the work does not easily fit into the fast-paced, neat-and-clean, an-arc-for-every-character constraints of the mainstream Hollywood film. Neil Jordan, who transformed Graham Greene's most autobiographical novel, "The End of the Affair," into a bitter romance starring Ralph Fiennes and Julianne Moore, was able to follow the general structure of the novel. But he said he felt he needed to shoot several of the crucial scenes more than once to show them from the sometimes conflicting perspectives of the main characters. "My approach to the entire story was that none of these characters actually knows the real truth of the pivotal events," he said.