Here's the classic, written with Holiday in mind (and recorded in 1944 with strings, at her request).
This next project is another black and white European classic, written by Sampayo, and illustrated by Muñoz.
UNFAITHFULLY YOURS One of the most sophisticated slapstick comedies ever made, this classic, written and directed by Preston Sturges, got terrible reviews and failed at the box office.
One definition of a classic, wrote Frank Kermode, is that it "subsists in change, by being patient of interpretation" – and, we might add, patient of translation, too.
THE SEAGULL This Chekhov classic, written in 1896, stars Dianne Wiest as the aging actress Arkadina and Alan Cumming as her narcissistic lover, the writer Trigorin.
The greatest example is the thrice remade The Most Dangerous Game, an authentic classic written to exploit the sets being built for King Kong in 1932.
Miss Julie comes to contemporary Appalachia with all her sexual and psychological baggage in tow in "Cattywampus," a raw and raucous updating of August Strindberg's classic, written and directed by Robert Cucuzza.
This too is a major theme in social thought, to be seen most luminously perhaps in Tocqueville's Democracy in America, a classic written in the 1830s that took not merely America but democracy everywhere as its subject.
The company docked $1 million from his pay last year after he admitted to having taken large parts of his folksy book, "Swanson's Unwritten Rules of Management," from a 1944 engineering classic written by a California professor.
If the basic idea is simple, reminiscent of the classic writing class exercise in which students are made to produce a tale inspired by an art postcard, the result is a complex showcase for Ward's talents.
