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Listen to Ben Folds and Nick Hornby's "Levi Johnston's Blues"
As we learned a year ago, piano-pop maven Ben Folds and author Nick Hornby are collaborating on a soon-to-be-released but as-yet-untitled album. The duo’s wry self-awareness of music and literature seem like a natural fit, but it’s still hard to predict what fruit this pairing will bear.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsAn Education
It’s been said many times that 50 percent of a movie director’s job is casting... read more
Found in: Movies, ReviewsNick Hornby: Juliet, Naked
Duncan is the kind of guy who won’t man-up... read more
Found in: Books, ReviewsNick Hornby Tackles Babymaking in Animated Film
With three of his books translated to film, plus two more adaptations in the works, Nick Hornby is now getting the hang of writing directly for the screen. But his latest side project reaches beyond his usual fortes of music, sports and love, to explain matters a bit more biological.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsBen Folds talks Nick Hornby collaboration album
"There'll be an infant-mortality rate to contend with," he says... read more
Found in: Music, NewsSundance 2009: Film Round-Up
Sundance Film Roundup Narrative Films An Education Nick Hornby wrote the script for An Education, so you’d expect the dialogue to be superb, and it is. (Although, it’s a strange choice to adapt someone else’s book instead of one of his own; he’d “rather mess up other people’s stories.”) And newcomer Carey Mulligan is spectacular in the leading role, so good that if I had seen the film earlier I would have made a point to see The Greatest, another Sundance selection starring Mulligan. In this one, though, she plays a schoolgirl who begins to spend time with an older... read more
Found in: Blogs, Festivus, Film FestivalAmid grim forecast, Sundance acquisitions move forward
As sober financial outlooks continue to soften expectations for the business side of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, the events have gone forward at full charge. For critical feedback, keep tuned to our Festivus blog as Paste’s chief film critic Robert Davis continues to provide rolling commentary.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsLet's Get (Meta) Physical: Top 5 Top 5 Lists in John Cusack film High Fidelity
Us music geeks love making Top 5 lists. It helps us deal with and understand this big scary world. Writer Nick Hornby understood this when he wrote the novel High Fidelity. As did John Cusack and director Stephen Frears when they made the movie version. Today, in Paste's List of the Day, we divulge our Desert-Island All-Time Top 5 Most-Memorable Top 5 Lists from the film version of High Fidelity.... read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayBen Folds and Nick Hornby to collaborate on record
Last week, music collaborator extraordinaire, Ben Folds, told News.com.au about plans to possibly do a record with Nick Hornby. And it wouldn't be the first time; Hornby helped Ben Folds write a song called "That's Me Trying" for a William Shatner album in 2004. Yeah, we know. We just blew your minds.... read more
Found in: Books, NewsNick Hornby adapts An Education for the screen
Three Nick Hornby novels have been turned into films, and one of them even got that honor twice. High Fidelity and About a Boy were both turned into movies, and Fever Pitch was first turned into a British film (for which Hornby wrote the screenplay), and then into a movie with Jimmy Fallon. And now there’s An Education, the screenplay of which Hornby adapted. Unlike his other filmic experiences, Education is not based on a book by Hornby, but on a memoir by Lynn Barber, originally published in Granta. The film has quite the cast, including Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina... read more
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