scriptwriter
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His book Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, based on his first marriage, was adapted in 1990 into a Hollywood feature film, Tune in Tomorrow.
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2025
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, by Caridad Svich, based on the novel by Mario Vargas Llosa.
From Washington Post • May 4, 2021
Finally, Mario Vargas Llosa once told me that he had written Aunt Julia And The Scriptwriter in a matter of weeks, swept along by the exhilaration of composition.
From The Guardian • Feb. 28, 2011
Filmgoers may know his name through "Tune in Tomorrow," an English-language adaptation of Vargas Llosa's "Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter" that starred Peter Falk, Keanu Reeves and Barbara Hershey.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 7, 2010
Like many other Masterpiece Theater series, it is slow in starting, and Scriptwriter Donald Wilson has created inexcusable confusions in the first three episodes.
From Time Magazine Archive
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