Tag: Francis Ford Coppola

  • Casting Sophia Coppola in ‘The Leopard’

    My Twitter friend the writer Kim Askew invited me to guest post on her site Romancing the Tome last week as part of a celebration of the release of her new book Tempestuous (co-authored with Amy Helmes). I wrote about one of my favorite novels The Leopard by the Italian writer Giuseppe di Lampedusa and why director Francis Ford Coppola should use it…

  • Movie Trailer For Kerouac’s ‘On The Road’

    On the road – Official trailer – (HD 1080p) by MK2diffusion William Burroughs got it right when he wrote Jack Kerouac “opened a million coffee shops and sold a million pairs of Levis.” Kerouac and his novel On The Road primed the culture for the Beats and later the ascension of the hippies and the 1960s counterculture. The actual literary influence of…