Kriminalakte

„Bürgerrechte wählen – Überwachung abwählen“ heißt eine sehr informative vom AK Vorrat gemachte Seite, die sehr detailliert die einzelnen Überwachungsgesetze, welche Parteien zugestimmt haben und die entsprechenden Forderungen der Parteien auflistet.

Hier ist die Originalseite. Im Moment hakt sie noch öfters. Aber hier kann sie auch studiert werden.

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Einen sehr launischen launigen Text hat Aaron J. Elkins für „My Book, The Movie“ über seine Idealbesetzung für eine Verfilmung eines seiner Gideon-Oliver-Krimis geschrieben. Denn seine Bücher wurden bereits verfilmt:

Actually, my books have been made into movies–five big-production TV movies–back a few years. I think the reason so few people remember them is the same reason people supposedly forget the real pain of childbirth or dental procedures: they are too wretched to bear remembering. (…)

In my case, they changed the protagonist from white to black; they moved him from the University of Washington to Columbia University; they converted him from a physical anthropologist to a cultural anthropologist; they changed him from a joyfully married man to a widower, but gave him a nineteen-year-old daughter to compensate; and they awarded him a black belt in kick-boxing or karate–I forget which.

Other than that, of course, they stuck quite closely to my character.

They took a few interesting liberties with the tenor of my stories too. Those of you who have read my books would know that there are certain kinds of things, ugly things, I’m highly unlikely to write about, e.g., animal mutilation, satanic cults, child pornography, torture, etc. I figure if people want to read about them, all they need to do is open the newspaper. Mystery fiction, as I see it, is a way of getting away from those awful things. Well, every one of those topics turned up in the first half-hour of the first show. After that, I don’t know; I quit watching. It wasn’t my kind of show. (…)

Am I bitter about it all? No way. I knew ahead of time how it would work, and I just left it to them; anything else would have been pointless and frustrating. They paid good money, and they paid on time. (What they paid me for is hard to understand, since they used so little of it, but I was happy to take it.) And most important, they couldn’t really hurt the books. TV is TV and books are books, and readers know the difference.

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Bei Shock till you drop gibt es ein Featurette zur Greg-Rucka/Steve-Lieber-Verfilmung „Whiteout“ mit Kate Beckinsale, Gabriel Macht und Alex O’Loughlin.

In den USA startet die langerwartete Verfilmung am 11. September.

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