[Ads-l] another non-fiction novel

[Laurence Horn]

> On Aug 2, 2016, at 1:31 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> I first heard of Mel Gibson in the mid '80s too....
> 
> JL

Past his prime ("The Year of Living Dangerously", 1982).  When he was still novel (as an actor) and non-fiction (as a human).

LH


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> On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 1:21 PM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yeah, it's not the use of "novel" that I was stunned by... more the idea of
>> Mel Gibson as the beloved James Murray. (Mel's had the rights to
>> Winchester's book for years now, but I don't think anyone guessed he was
>> going to cast himself as Murray.) Or is that what you meant by "weird and
>> disgusting"?
>> 
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>> On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>>> stunned by this news
>>> 
>>> Remember, I first noticed this usage in the mid '80s.
>>> 
>>> Still weird and disgusting though.
>>> 
>>> JL
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 11:47 AM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.theguardian.com_film_2016_aug_02_mel-2Dgibson-2Dsean-2Dpenn-2Doed-2Dcreators-2Dprofessor-2Dmadman&d=CwIBaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=dHxQs8mzR2c8hbava21JTggEWrJWyFKYuGcRPSkJ6aY&s=k1Cm_jbenaiky9VfFW8w6r4ogADhVs2WNKLwhmgcXWM&e= 
>>>> Mel Gibson and Sean Penn to play creators of Oxford English Dictionary
>>>> Based on the bestselling novel, Professor and the Madman will star the
>>>> Oscar-winners as two obsessive men who worked together in the 19th
>>> century.
>>>> 
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>>>> 
>>>> (I'm too stunned by this news to comment on anything other than the use
>>> of
>>>> the word "novel" for Simon Winchester's non-fiction book "The Professor
>>> and
>>>> the Madman," published in the UK as "The Surgeon of Crowthorne.")
>>>> 
>>>> --bgz
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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