Adaptations

Screenwriter Charlie Kauffman (“Being John Malkovich”) made himself a character in his adaptation of Susan Orlean’s book “The Orchid Thief”. The movie is called “Adaptation,” and is up for several Academy Awards, including one for Meryl Streep who plays the author.

Tom Carson is a novelist, television critic and the author of “Gilligan’s Wake.”  He talks about blending James Joyce’s classic “Finnegan’s Wake” with those seven wacky castaways from “Gilligan’s Island.”

Paul Feig is the creator of the critically acclaimed TV series “Freaks and Geeks.”  He says that the show (which is no longer on the air) was based on his real-life adolescence.