TINSELTOWN: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood de William J. Mann, lauréat d’un Edgar Award en 2015, sera bientôt adapté pour le petit écran par la société Spectrum Originals. Située dans les années 1920 à l’ère du cinéma muet, la série historique mettra en scène la vie de quatre pionnières du cinéma dont la vie et la carrière à Hollywood furent menacées suite à un meurtre scandaleux resté non résolu : celui de William Desmond Taylor, président de la Motion Picture Directors Association. Cette histoire véridique et addictive d’ambition, de scandale, d’intrigue et de crime retrace la naissance de l’industrie cinématographique moderne dans un monde encore brutal et sexiste. Pour plus de détails sur le projet de série TV, voir cet article de Deadline.
TINSELTOWN est paru en 2014 chez HarperCollins aux Etats-Unis. Les droits de langue française sont toujours disponibles.
Le nouveau dessin animé de Sony Pictures Animation, Déconnectés (Connected en anglais), sortira dans les salles le 14 octobre 2020.
On the morning of August 10, 2019, Jeffrey Epstein, jet-setting consigliere and friend to the rich and powerful, was found unresponsive in his prison cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan where he awaited his second trial for sexual predation and other crimes. He was rushed to a local hospital and one hour later pronounced dead. The coroner’s verdict? Suicide. But cracks in the official story emerged immediately. And the questions kept coming: Why did the surveillance cameras in front of his cell mysteriously stop working that night? Why was Epstein’s cellmate transferred out and never replaced? Why was a high-profile prisoner so suddenly taken off suicide watch and left unguarded for eight hours? How did Epstein get a bedsheet for hanging himself, when his having one was against jail protocol? Finally, was he murdered to protect the powerful people who feared what he might reveal? Many were happy to learn that Epstein would not have his day in open court. Across the world, a sinister web of powerful billionaires, celebrities and political players, including Bill and Hillary Clinton, had reason to sigh with relief at news of Epstein’s death. Having flown on his private planes and visited his many homes—the sites of so many illicit activities—they had much to lose if their transgressions were ever exposed. And now, Epstein was silenced for good. In A CONVENIENT DEATH, investigative reporters Alana Goodman and Daniel Halper search for the truth behind the scandal that shocked the nation. With unprecedented access to Epstein’s victims and lawyers, to medical professionals, Wall Street insiders and law enforcement officers, they reveal the dirty secrets and sinister ties that may have driven someone in Epstein’s circle to take matters into their own hands.
Anyone who has ever been told “You should speak up!” during a presentation at the office, a group project at school, or even a conversation among friends can attest to the misunderstanding at the heart of that demand. For those of us—women, people of color, immigrants, outsiders—who find it hard to speak up, the issue is not just about willpower. Many of us have internalized the same messages since birth: that because of the pitch of our voice, the accent we possess, or the slang we use, we will not be taken seriously. Power, we’re told, sounds like the mostly white, straight, wealthy men who wield it.