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All About Eve (Special Screening)

Planning Ahead, Austin  Mon, 06/09/2008 - 12:35am

A record 14 Oscar nominations for the cast and crew, this show-biz classic is as wicked and sophisticated as they come.


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Playwright, Writer and Director David Mamet to Visit Campus to W...

UT - Office of Public Affairs  Fri, 02/01/2008 - 4:30pm

David Mamet, author of more than 50 plays and 25 screenplays that have earned him a Pulitzer Prize, Oscar nominations and a Tony Award, will visit The University of Texas at Austin campus the first week of February to speak and meet with students in the James A.

Michener Center for Writers and the departments [...]


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Oh, Oscar!

Austin Public Library Blog  Wed, 01/24/2007 - 4:35pm

This week the Oscar nominations were announced. Did you know that the following nominated films started out as books?

Letters from Iwo Jima, book titled Picture Letters from Commander in Chief by Tadamichi Kuribayashi

Children of Men, book of the same title by P.D.

James

Little Children, book of the same title by Tom Perrotta

Notes on a Scandal, book of the same title by Zoe Heller

What’s your favorite book-turned-Oscar-winning movie?












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