You may wonder, “Did War of the Roses foreshadow what was to come?” For any of you who might follow or believe in some of the teachings from “The Secret” (where you create what you visualize and focus on), you might think that perhaps the creators of this movie had a glimpse into our future. […]
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As her lawyers tell it, the man suspected of blowing up the house was the personification of evil. The ex-wife hid from the Nazis as a child; he drew swastikas all around their house. Their children tried to call him, but he sputtered curses and hung up the phone: he accused them of siding with […]
AN OIL HEIRESS whose family owns one of the largest ranches in Texas last month bought the Jacson,Wyo., house of novelist Warren Adler, whose “The War of the Roses” and “Random Hearts” became Hollywood movies. Anne Burnett Windfohr Marion, who owns the Four Sixes rances (480,000 acres in total) and Burnett Oil Co. in Fort […]
When moviegoers watched Oliver and Barbara Rose’s marriage descend into a maelstrom of malice, spite, divorce papers and dog paté in the 1989 film, The War of the Roses, they were seeing the twisted but funny work of Wyoming author Warren Adler. “It is strictly a crap shoot and a minor miracle to see one’s […]
TALK to Warren Adler, and watch some favorite clichés crumble. Remember “The War of the Roses,” the novel – and later, the movie – about a brutal divorce? Mr. Adler wrote the book and the screenplay, even though he has been married (happily, he says) to the same woman for 54 years. So much for […]
25 Years After: The Dark Appeal of the Divorce Novel This year marks the 25th Anniversary of the publication of The War of the Roses, by Warren Adler. Long considered a classic novel of divorce and the American zeitgeist, the book was further popularized by a film adaptation and remains in print as well as […]
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