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Van Damme has played fictionalized versions of himself before Van Damme is no stranger to playing fictionalized versions of himself.
The chart is fictionalized, but may soon be bracingly real.
We created unbelievable characters — bland stereotypes — and fictionalized their lives.
It seems easier to digest certain things when they're fictionalized.
It seems easier to digest certain things when they're fictionalized.
Those scenes meander, lacking dialectical fire between the fictionalized pair.
Shirley is a highly fictionalized film about an actual person.
"I've found that most people like being fictionalized," she said.
The same was true of fictionalized reports of the practice.
Where we're fictionalizing, we talk about how we fictionalized and why.
Is it a fictionalized true story, a re-enactment, or both?
Full-on obsession takes over the life of the fictionalized Monika.
Each of these three historical moments are fictionalized in the performance.
Ms. Jones will play a fictionalized version of Mr. Fingal's boss.
But, since then, he has usually played fictionalized versions of himself.
That's why we are always really clear that this is fictionalized.
So those were all fictionalized characters, but based on real people.
The press notes describe "Z" as "fictionalized," so liberties will be taken.
Together, they wrote a fictionalized version of Tupac Shakur's murder, called Flow.
We first saw it fictionalized on The O.C., which premiered in 2003.
It's mostly profiles, and, in the case of Fox, fictionalized sports stories.
We're endlessly entertained by royals, whether they're fictionalized or actual living monarchs.
In 2012, Trump tweeted that the concept was fictionalized by the Chinese.
It's set in East London, in a fictionalized housing estate called Summerhouse.
The show offers a fictionalized chronicle of the origins of hip-hop.
The fictionalized portion looks at a crewed mission to Mars in 2033.
I have to say, I knew that it was a fictionalized account.
His first novel, "Atta" (2011), was a fictionalized biography of the Sept.
Rather then confessing directly and honestly, Glass fictionalized what happened to him.
Ayn Rand's life was so extraordinary it was made to be fictionalized.
"Come From Away" is a fictionalized version of heartwarming reality from 2001.
Hollywood has produced quite a few fictionalized depictions of dramatic climate change.
Roger Peyrefitte's fictionalized biography of Fersen and his lifelong companion, Nino Cesarini.
I fictionalized its intensity, and I put it all together on one page.
As it turns out, sometimes the truth is scarier than the fictionalized version.
It's a fictionalized account … I tried to make it as accurate as possible.
Writer Upton Sinclair had previously included a fictionalized version of Doheny in Oil!
But even with Snowden's cooperation, much of the film had to be fictionalized.
CL: Was the election more fascinating than the one you fictionalized in Submission?
Dan Aykroyd starred in a somewhat fictionalized mini-series about the fighter plane.
This film, adapted from Roman Gary's fictionalized memoir, looks great but misses greatness.
He published a fictionalized memoir this year that detailed his anti-abortion beliefs.
Here was another show featuring a stand-up comedian's lightly fictionalized alter ego.
For example, the relationship of Barack and Michelle Obama (as fictionalized recently in the 2016 film Southside With You) means something different to us as a culture than the relationship of Bill and Hillary Clinton (fictionalized in 1998's Primary Colors).
Now the rest of us can enjoy their experiences, albeit fictionalized versions of them.
It's like a 1930s hobo adventure romance, in a vaguely fictionalized version of America.
However, "Narcos" is fictionalized, and how it chooses to frame the story is telling.
There's also a great Silicon Valley clip of this, which is, of course fictionalized.
Great news if you can't get enough of Kim Jong Un's fictionalized family history.
The film, which was slightly fictionalized for dramatic effect, earned two Academy Award nominations.
That said, there's attention to real details in this fictionalized version of New Orleans.
It's normally described as a show about the Murdochs, fictionalized show about the Murdochs.
I couldn't resist, so I included a fictionalized version of it for my character.
So it's not all that useful to point to a fictionalized past and sneer.
Cobb ripped the story, calling it "exaggerated and/or fictionalized" in a lengthy email.
Ron's father, Fred Goldman, 75, also wonders how much of the show will be fictionalized.
The houses offer testimonies from residents of Flint, Michigan — fictionalized accounts based on real events.
Is it a documentary of a fiction, a fictionalized documentary, or is it pure reality?
Lucy in the Sky looks a little bit like the fictionalized alternative to First Man.
Catch the fictionalized depiction of their simply unclassifiable relationship in Bohemian Rhapsody, out November 2.
In reality, it was said by a character named Socrates from a 1980 fictionalized memoir.
A Quiet Passion and Wild Nights with Emily are both fictionalized spins on real events.
When Samantha tears up over fictionalized alt-right hate, Browning feels it all the same.
"How is Ireland these days?" the fictionalized letter ends, with a wink and a nudge.
Bites The menu at Malibu Kitchen evokes a fictionalized California — but the food comes through.
This seduction can work only in a fictionalized setting such as Stellaris' sci-fi world.
Tonight's Democratic debate showed leadership as opposite from Donald Trump as those two fictionalized worlds.
The King is based off Shakespeare's heavily fictionalized play Henry V, first performed in 1599.
It's a concept that's so weird, it's actually kind of genius, especially for a guy who wasn't afraid to play a fictionalized version of himself on Don't Trust the B—— in Apt 23, who competed on a fictionalized version of Dancing with the Stars.
The video, titled "The Hunt," is a fictionalized montage of various conflict areas around the world.
Without those aliens, The X-Files just looks like a barely fictionalized version of US history.
Things are sensationalized, characters are fictionalized, and the movie ends up looking nothing like real life.
In their fictionalized world, a new modern slavery still exists as a modern and legalized institution.
Similarly, Somerville and Fukunaga built a fictionalized world just one or two clicks off from reality.
Instead, the writers address the very real drama of prejudice and discrimination with a fictionalized conflict.
And he understands he is playing a highly fictionalized character in a lot of different ways.
With her natural hair and bossy attitude, her fictionalized character seemed to run the Hogwarts scene.
Just like the fictionalized one, this clock doesn't tell time: it gives locations of family members.
Silverman sketches a brief account of Hale, Lincoln, and the marketing of a fictionalized New England.
Chief among them: It's hard for fictionalized shows to top the real life drama in Washington.
Let him know how common homesickness is, and share your own stories (true or lightly fictionalized).
Sekiro is set in a fictionalized version of feudal Japan and is coming out in 2019.
"Time To Go" is a fictionalized story I wrote about a nonexistent encounter with a friend.
Rae, playing a fictionalized version of herself, slips into the role of Issa with obvious enthusiasm.
Unfortunately, in Matthew Rosen's fictionalized take, "Quezon's Game," this story of intrigue turns stiff and sentimental.
"An Errand for Emma" features a "slightly fictionalized" family history, according to a post from Daywell.
" The Child Buyer " (1960) is a dystopian fantasy in the form of a fictionalized legislative hearing.
Autofiction is a literary genre that describes fictionalized autobiography — essentially memoir with a license to invent.
And yeah, people should not rely solely on a fictionalized film for an accurate understanding of history.
It's really kind of weird to see fictionalized versions of you die or get raped or whatever.
But the way this morphing happens in real life isn't nearly as sexy as that fictionalized idea.
Though Law & Order is a fictionalized franchise, it has a history of pulling from real-world headlines.
"Manson, My Name Is Evil" (2009) is a fictionalized account of the trial of Leslie Van Houten.
McCann finesses "Dancer" — his fictionalized account of the life of Rudolf Nureyev — with letters and diary entries.
McLain has employed impressive primary and secondary sources, including Gellhorn's letters, before letting loose her fictionalized heroine.
The fictionalized premise is this: General Erinmore (Colin Firth) sends two British soldiers on an urgent mission.
The author used his birthplace of Sauk Centre as a mold for the fictionalized Gopher Prairie setting.
Richards' mother (or a fictionalized version of her) leaves her cheating husband for life as a single mother.
It's an affectionate, determinedly credible period piece with lightly fictionalized versions of people and places from the era.
And though those experiences have clearly been smoothed out into a fictionalized film, it still feels like nonfiction.
"" Scattered throughout this partially fictionalized terrain are the real, ultra personal events at the heart of Coates' life.
In the film, Lucas Hedges plays a fictionalized version of Conley, with a tweaked name (he's Jared Eamons).
But if a funny, fictionalized version of the events suits you, then War Dogs will do just fine.
In traditional Eleven fashion, the tween character's nose began bleeding in the middle of her fictionalized SNL cameo.
While the entry above uses the recognizable names NASA and SpaceX, the "historical" recount is almost completely fictionalized.
I'm a history nerd and love being able to explore any rendering of the past, fictionalized or no.
So, after careful thought, Jessup suggested "Eliza," inspired by the fictionalized heroine from "My Fair Lady," Eliza Doolittle.
It's a story familiar to anyone who saw "Foxcatcher," Bennett Miller's 2014 fictionalized account (Mark Ruffalo played Schultz).
On April 16, HBO will air Confirmation, a fictionalized version of these events starring Kerry Washington as Hill.
In "Hillary and Clinton," Mr. Hnath presents a fictionalized drama about Hillary Clinton's initial bid for the presidency.
I found myself deeply relating to her portrayal of dealing with her fictionalized family's myriad quirks and eccentricities.
Lady Dynamite's pilot episode opens with comedian Maria Bamford, as a fictionalized version of herself, going to work.
Watching fictionalized portrayals of the job just makes me realize how remarkable the actual, real-life administration is.
The Holocaust has yielded powerful memoirs and documentaries; fictionalized Holocaust films are no more than a minor genre.
McEwan's fictionalized Turing begins an affair with her but fails to consummate it, implicitly due to his homosexuality.
Green created the fictionalized school from the real Indian Springs School located near Birmingham, Alabama, which he attended.
Matthew Rhys plays Lloyd Vogel, a fictionalized version of Junod, and Tom Hanks stars as Mr. Rogers himself.
Picking up at Season 10 of the series, David has been away from his fictionalized self since 2017.
Members of the McMahon family are known largely by the fictionalized versions of themselves that populate WWE angles.
Hazan's camera crosses across all boundaries and though it's fictionalized elements, arrives at a greater sense of truth.
The company presented a fictionalized version of how one of its founders, Adolphus Busch, emigrated from Germany in 1857.
It's called Frat Boy Genius, and is a fictionalized docu-drama about Evan Spiegel and the creation of Snapchat.
I also reviewed Antitrust, the 231 thriller about a fictionalized Microsoft that murders software developers to steal their code.
Fans of the fictionalized version of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, starring Alison Brie, will get another ten episodes.
It's unclear whether the fictionalized story will center around the two actresses or other people involved in the case.
The entire idea feels incredibly artificial — even more contrived than the fictionalized reality of the rest of these films.
The poet Weldon Kees, who grew up in Beatrice, wrote a series of loosely fictionalized stories about the city.
After all, Wiley makes references to often highly fictionalized and heroic depictions from the past; so does the Lewis.
I will say that the elements of your biography were merely the starting point for a free, fictionalized, story.
He plays a fictionalized version of himself, a time-traveling doppelgänger and a simpering, squeaky-voiced Bulgarian factory worker.
To back up: "Memories of the Future" is lightly fictionalized memoir or, in the term of the moment, autofiction.
The actor wrote the screenplay during a stint in rehab and plays a fictionalized version of his own father.
In his latest film, Museo, Mexican director Alonso Ruizpalacios constructs a slightly absurd, fictionalized account of this stunning heist.
August is one of the contestants on the fictionalized dating show Everlasting, the show within a show in UnREAL.
Dawson has previously fictionalized the poet Rupert Brooke ("The Great Lover") and the murderer Edith Thompson ("Fred and Edie").
It's a satirical, fictionalized account of her finding a collection of White House worker's diaries in the Watergate complex.
One such blog post, a faux screenplay titled Seal 69, describes the fictionalized rape of Osama Bin Laden's wife.
Well, that's a little bit fictionalized, in a lot of ways, including- You didn't have Jock to deal with?
Black Lives Matter Global Network co-founder Patrisse Cullors brings authenticity to a fictionalized protest ripped from real world headlines.
Augie Garrido, the legendary college baseball coach, plays the private-label Joe Torre for your fictionalized 1999 New York Yankees.
While the game is heavily inspired by history, Fox was quick to point out that the entire premise is fictionalized.
In 2016, Emma Cline's novel The Girls fictionalized the events in an attempt to look inside the Manson girls' psychology.
A lot of things were fictionalized, but I had to channel my inner teenager, and it wasn't that hard actually.
Maisel looked at the expectations for women and men in the lightly fictionalized chauvinistic society of 1950s New York City.
I didn't know any of these people were real-life people, I thought it was completely fictionalized in Steven's brain!
For many shooters of this time, these environments were in the Middle East, or a lightly-fictionalized version of it.
Lifetime's new biopic Britney Ever After is a fictionalized retelling of the pop star's often-tumultuous time in the spotlight.
In this fictionalized version at least, Mapplethorpe and Moore's relationship culminates in a fierce confrontation about the former's racial bias.
When Hollywood made a movie about a hapless Major League team it was a fictionalized version of the Cleveland Indians.
The two are currently filming the upcoming musical The Greatest Showman, a fictionalized account of real-life entertainer P.T. Barnum.
But given Hargrove's experience, something close to the truth is likely to have more power than a heavily fictionalized story.
Throughout the EP, Barclay weaves together the fictionalized narrative of the Naja, an ancient people politically betrayed by its neighbors.
The book was an ambiguously fictionalized diary of Panarello's sexual coming of age, involving S. & M., orgies, and other extracurriculars.
She mentions this, which is all fiction, all fictionalized, probably or possibly started by her and her very sleazy campaign.
But it's hard to resist the reading that this is Foer serving himself up in yet another thinly fictionalized form.
West, also known for playing a fictionalized version of himself on Family Guy, died Friday after a battle with Leukemia.
The fictionalized versions of Evan and Emery Huang, portrayed on "Fresh off the Boat" by Ian Chen and Forrest Wheeler.
Mr. Kavanaugh said that the book was a "fictionalized" account and that only Mr. Judge could answer about his intention.
"The Female Brain" is a fictionalized adaptation of a nonfiction book of the same title by the neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine.
Like many dystopian shows before it, the fictionalized world of "Leila" reflects some of the harsh realities of modern society.
"In West Mills" explores the textured inner world of a fictionalized black community in North Carolina between 1941 and 1987.
Lots of folks were outraged that Singer was set to direct a movie about a fictionalized victim of sexual assault.
Even while alive he became a thinly fictionalized character in a novel by George Sand, his partner of nine years.
When you never quite know how much about a character is fictionalized, such precision can make the scenes feel reimagined.
" Professor Gordon-Reed, who called the musical "fictionalized biography," said the exhibition "attempts to tell the story in broader context.
In 2427, the director James Ivory fictionalized the family's adventures in "Shakespeare Wallah," with the Kendals playing versions of themselves.
When Charles Joyce of Vermont rose to object to the ban, he invoked a somewhat fictionalized history of open doors.
This summer, a fictionalized version of the I-Bar is slated to play a part in the Top Gun sequel.
But in the American imagination, that pair always had to be white, even if all the other details were fictionalized.
Now Mr. Mills has turned to his mother, in another fictionalized story, moistened with tears, that draws on his life.
The episodes this team created for "I Am the Night" are heavily fictionalized, though based on Ms. Hodel's gripping memoir.
" In "Master Rock," the fictionalized Falconer explains that the "mountain's story is vertical in the making, horizontal in the telling.
The breakup and the fictionalized elements surrounding it are used to both build and deconstruct the myth of the artist.
"Driving the King," Ravi Howard Howard is a good friend, and a master at creating fictionalized accounts based on true experiences.
In one of the first issue's memorable sequences, a fictionalized Dorothy Parker muses on nostalgia, and the potential danger it holds.
Mascots essentially equate Native Americans with animals, she said, while hypersexualized Halloween costumes silence indigenous women, framing them as fictionalized characters.
In The Favourite, the pomp and perversity of Queen Anne's fictionalized court registers through a historic typeface manipulated in surprising ways.
It's a quiet, extraordinary film, and especially worth revisiting now that Robert Zemeckis's fictionalized version, Welcome to Marwen, is being released.
The fictionalized narrative is woven together by Canadian-Indian filmmaker Richie Mehta, based on case files, interviews, and permissions he obtained.
The real-life Judalon's story is equally as empowering as the NBC version, since the affair and its aftermath isn't fictionalized.
Logan, a Western with an apocalyptically bleak outlook on mutantkind, is a fictionalized version of Jackman finally giving into that fatigue.
He's doing a stint in rehab alongside comedian Marc Maron, who plays a fictionalized version of himself in the IFC comedy.
This new "fictionalized documentary" genre is the perfect mode to explain a story pieced together only through declassified files and recollection.
A fictionalized version of the former NSA contractor's life story was released this summer, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Shailene Woodley.
In the film, Anne's miscarriages are represented by her 17 fictionalized pet rabbits that she dotes on in her bed chambers.
"I said to the man, just don't make me a snitch," Barksdale said of being fictionalized by Simon in the show.
Kay is a mixed-race seventeen-year-old student at a boarding school in the lightly fictionalized town of Montefiore, Georgia.
Miles' article was published shortly before the release of the Will Smith film Concussion, a fictionalized account of Omalu's CTE discovery.
It is the fictionalized biography of the great Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich: a study of creativity, courage and conscience under terror.
The book "Girls on the Line," a fictionalized account of the women's story by Aimie K. Runyan, was published in November.
Ruth Wilson, a star of "The Affair" and "Luther," plays a fictionalized version of her own grandmother in this mini-series.
More of a poem or a city symphony than a documentary, it drifts freely, sometimes frustratingly between captured and fictionalized moments.
A few show up in "American Made" either as fictionalized supporting characters or as themselves, smiling and slinking in archival images.
Any references to real-life companies, persons, or historical events have been fictionalized for the purposes of furthering this narrative story.
Fails, an actor and San Francisco native, plays a fictionalized version of himself in this indie drama directed by Joe Talbot.
The Nowhere Inn is a semi-fictionalized story about the hazards and constantly seesawing power balance inherent in making a documentary.
Batuman observes a parallel between modern Turkey and the fictionalized version of France presented in a recent novel by Michel Houellebecq.
Rupert Murdoch (Malcolm McDowell in Bombshell), media mogul, friend, and boss of Ailes', is included in Bombshell's semi-fictionalized blame game.
" The user writes, "[The DNC's] entire narrative around Russia has been fictionalized with the help of the CrowdStrike private cybersecurity company.
Reporting and analysis It's unclear whether Kavanaugh is the character in the book and if the incident was real or fictionalized.
It's not uncommon for the children of dead celebrities to have to cope with their parents' lives being fictionalized on screen.
In "Jack and Jill," Pacino plays a fictionalized version of himself with a giant crush on Jill, played by Adam Sandler.
Also in the season: fictionalized versions of Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla, played by the actors Robert Glenister and Goran Visnjic.
Teaching the reality rather than the fictionalized fantasy of the Middle Ages has never been more important than it is today.
This movie is a fictionalized account of the maturation of skateboarding, centered on the mid-70s skating boom in Los Angeles.
What's more impressive, however, is the way he has fictionalized it, transforming the interior into a meticulously crafted capsule of destruction.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads A Bigger Splash, a semi-fictionalized documentary about David Hockney opens with a ringing phone.
The masses love to create drama where there is none, and Kardashian-Jenner drama is some of the most oft-fictionalized kind.
As a prequel, it burrows into one of the most picked over, obsessed-upon, fan-fictionalized, head-canonized story universes ever built.
It takes place in (an almost totally fictionalized version of) 16th-century Vienna, a city, according to Shakespeare, full of sexual licentiousness.
Cohn's nonpublic sexuality and death from complications relating to AIDS would later be fictionalized in the Tony Kushner play Angels in America.
Call it the "Devil Wears Prada" economy, after the novel depicting life working for a fictionalized Anna Wintour, the longtime Vogue editor.
In a word rife with true and fictionalized crime thrillers, our culture seems almost exclusively interested in the guilty: Who did it?
If you've seen UnReal, it's difficult to watch The Bachelor without its dark, fictionalized satire lurking in the back of your mind.
It's all very scary and I can't help but trace the similarities between your fictionalized self, Marissa, and the real you, Mischa.
If you got all your fictionalized English history from Downton Abbey, then Peaky Blinders is going to slap some sense into you.
It's again set in an open world, swapping the previously fictionalized cities—Stilwater, Steelport—for a futuristic take on Seoul, South Korea.
A fictionalized biopic about the case made in 1990, Unspeakable Acts, paints the two child therapists in the case as noble heroes.
They became famous after starring in Clark's 1995 cult-classic film Kids, which stares unwaveringly into a fictionalized version of their lives.
The '30s period piece stars Matt Bomer as Monroe Stahl, a fictionalized version of the real-life precocious movie mogul Irving Thalberg.
A generation of kids grew up watching Cool Runnings, the fun and very heavily fictionalized tale of the first Jamaican bobsled team.
Call it the "Devil Wears Prada" economy, after the novel depicting life working for a fictionalized Anna Wintour, the longtime Vogue editor.
His other work includes a fictionalized biography of the gossip columnist Walter Winchell, a strange hybrid that is part novel, part screenplay.
It makes the entire movie ring hollow, because of the disconnect between the fictionalized story and what's being presented separately as reality.
Ms. Dunn's next novel, "Cut Man," a fictionalized account of boxing, was scheduled to be published in 2008 but was never finished.
It takes the form of an extended cinematic essay, blending fictionalized re-enactments of plausible events with excursions into scholarship and fantasy.
By the end, this series of brief fictionalized impressions feels as true to life, or more so, than a conventional biography might.
You gave us one of the best fictionalized relationships with Ryan Gosling's lovable Noah Calhoun and Rachel McAdams' love sick Allie Hamilton.
It is historical fiction and a kind of fictionalized biography, the study of the real-life World War II figure Varian Fry.
Even the hard-bitten police lieutenant in charge of the fictionalized case is shaken by the singular brutality of the unknown killer.
The book is a fictionalized account of the men, one Israeli, one Palestinian, whose daughters were killed near Jerusalem 563 years apart.
The Nowhere Inn is a semi-fictionalized story about the hazards and constantly see-sawing power balance inherent in making a documentary.
Brad Pitt, who helped produce this adaptation of Michael Hastings's book "The Operators," stars as Glen McMahon, a fictionalized version of Gen.
The film also has a longer-than-usual coda featuring interviews with the real figures fictionalized in the movie, which is commendable.
A fictionalized version of him became the shadowy master assassin of the Jason Bourne thrillers by Robert Ludlum, and in various films.
The result is a novel that feels more like a fictionalized account, in ways that are both deeply satisfying and sometimes limiting.
This fictionalized (and unflaggingly unflattering) account of Walt Disney's life and career is adapted from a wry novel by Peter Stephan Jungk.
So it seemed natural in 2005 when he made a movie about (a thinly fictionalized version of) Cobain, played by Michael Pitt.
Much like how Vince has created a fictionalized version of his family, he seems to have done the same with his company.
It's written by LaBeouf, based on his own experiences as a child star, with LaBeouf playing the fictionalized version of his own father.
The movie was based on a book, which was a fictionalized account of the author's time working at Vogue alongside editor Anna Wintour.
I had a chance to show people the intimate truth about something they've only seen fictionalized in movies or heard about in journalism.
At a certain point I wonder why I'm watching shows that are fictionalized versions of what I'm already worried about every single day.
A century later, Albinati has fictionalized the crime his classmates committed and elaborated on it in the language of broad-brush cultural criticism.
Yakuza 0 continues that trend, but brings the series back to the '80s in a fictionalized take on the seedy underbelly of Tokyo.
An editor's note for the book explains the memoir was based on true events but that some names and events have been fictionalized.
They play fictionalized versions of themselves who go in search of the legendary UFO 907, a prolific graffiti writer best known in NYC.
Instead, Sutherland plays a fictionalized version of himself who has a strong connection to Hansel during his exile from the fashion world. 3.
But whatever it is, Jordan Peele telling fictionalized Simon Wiesenthal stories or whatever is destined for brilliance—and some massive network bidding wars.
The ghostly woman in white, Polly (Lucy Boynton), is the (supposedly) fictionalized character from Iris' most famous novel, The Lady in the Wall.
Kaczynski gained a cult following among the #EcoFash after a fictionalized Netflix series aired in August 2017 about the hunt to capture him.
Perhaps fittingly, his ill-fated 2015 presidential bid leaned in part on his crime record in Baltimore, one fictionalized on HBO's The Wire.
Those books are masterpieces of fictionalized history, while "Fear" is a remarkable feat of reporting conveyed in prose that couldn't be called literary.
He passed away in 2014, leaving a big hole in the fictionalized Gilmore family, and in the hearts of the real-life cast.
Her first, "Superstar: A Novel," was published in 1970, a fictionalized autobiography about a much-put-upon denizen of a Factory-like scene.
The games are known for their nonlinear, open-world style, which allows players to cause random mayhem in fictionalized versions of U.S. cities.
Coghe, the historian, said many parts of the book were fictionalized and that some events combined McKenna's experiences with those of her aunt.
The big, bad powerful woman is a news fixture, too, and accounts of real-life women are in close conversation with fictionalized ones.
His first book, "It's Me, Eddie," published in France in 21974, was a fictionalized, somewhat scandalous memoir about a Russian in New York.
I quickly notched "Gone With the Wind" ("great"), "Jane Eyre" ("so good"), and "Wild December," a fictionalized account of the Brontës ("really interesting").
In one somber moment, his costars, who are playing heightened and fictionalized versions of themselves, reflect on how fleeting life (and fame) is.
It tells a fictionalized account of the real-life case of Stefano Cucchi, who died in 2009 while in police custody in Rome.
Akin to Saidiya Hartman's idea of "critical fabulation," he uses a fictionalized narrative to breathe life into the archive's gaps and our imaginations.
Mr. Kaloyev finds his fictionalized counterpart in Nikolai Koslov, a man whose operatic despair becomes sublimated and bottlenecked into a quest for revenge.
I'm including him in this as the control that all these other fictional or fictionalized versions of the Pope have spun off of.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Eastwood's drama includes a scene where the fictionalized Scruggs offers to sleep with a federal agent Tom Shaw.
Netflix Description: "Rolling Stone" reporter David Lipsky shadows famed writer David Foster Wallace in this fictionalized account of their revealing five-day encounter.
It's not an easy scene to watch, even knowing that it's a fictionalized version of what may have actually happened in the Blanchard home.
For those interested in the bizarre tale of NXIVM, a fictionalized version of the cult is also on its way to the small screen.
The relationship she depicts is a fictionalized version of the real thing, that paints Dr. Nicky out to be the villain in her story.
We get a taste of what it's like to be a granddaughter visiting her roots fictionalized into an unexpected way of collecting one's inheritance.
When we first meet Povitsky's televised avatar Esther, completely inspired by the real-life version, the fictionalized comedian is heading home after a hookup.
Though it's a fictionalized account of Mazur's story, the film offers an important opportunity to have an urgent conversation about America's broken drug policies.
It's a fictionalized account of the real expedition, which became mired in the ice near King William Island in Nunavut between 1845 and 1848.
Of course, life at Chipotle is hardly the same as life as fictionalized at Rifle Security Company, Windward Side, 2nd Platoon, in the film.
In these instances, I think the pressure to love ourselves—to be some fictionalized whole person—can make us feel even worse about ourselves.
Sittenfeld is the author of the 2008 novel, American Wife, which was a fictionalized version of the life of former first lady Laura Bush.
That same year, the film Without a Trace was released, based on a fictionalized account of Etan's case, starring Kate Nelligan and Judd Hirsch.
Colette's first series, the Claudine novels, chronicles a fictionalized version of the author's life from adolescence through her first marriage and affair with Missy.
If I can't change it, why would I waste my time and stress out about something that I know is going to be fictionalized?
It takes place in a fictionalized version of a major American city — in this case, New Orleans — and has lots of shooting and driving.
He often was hired to play a comically fictionalized version of himself in live-action and animated roles and became a successful voice actor.
"The Exile" (1931) is one of several fictionalized versions that Micheaux made of his own story as a western pioneer; "Birthright" (1938) is another.
Aguilar likened his presence within the show's fictionalized world to the Wizard of Oz -- to the comics, a mysterious figure that wields enormous power.
But after Leyner gets done slicing the fictionalized version of his life into small and disconnected fragments, the slivers turn out to draw blood.
The pilot of Seinfeld—a sitcom about a fictionalized version of comedian Jerry Seinfeld and his friends shouting at each other—aired in 1989.
The morning's agenda: a fictionalized scene in which the increasingly desperate Mr. Cunanan tries to swim his way to safety, but quickly turns back.
Critic's pick Mixing documentary and fictionalized re-enactment, a new film about the mythic automaker tells a quintessentially American story of ambition and greed.
Barrasso said he watched Schiff's reaction when the defense team played the clip of his "fictionalized, made-up" version of Trump's call with Zelensky.
And so, in that spirit, this guide will only feature images and inspiration to dress up as Robbie playing the fictionalized version of Tate.
This absolutely cursed take was overshadowed by people pointing out that Sorkin's movies are wildly fictionalized, making his sanctimony more than a little rich.
Five years earlier, Günter Grass had published "Crabwalk," a fictionalized account of the 1945 sinking of a ship bearing thousands of East Prussian refugees.
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood features Tom Hanks as Mr. Rogers and Matthew Rhys as reporter Lloyd Vogel, a fictionalized version of Junod.
Embodying a fictionalized version of an iconic man allows for a certain "flamboyance," he said—the kind that usually plays well at the Delacorte.
The subject of "I, Tonya" — a winking, eager-to-please, fictionalized gloss on the disgraced ice skater Tonya Harding — gets roughed up a lot.
Their guide is Karl (Thomas Kretschmann), a sketchy stranger whose possibly menacing motives cry out for an investigation — fictionalized, if necessary — that never comes.
His best known American-made film is "Reversal of Fortune," a fictionalized drama about Claus von Bulow and his own slick lawyer, Alan Dershowitz.
Kramer was nothing if not embedded; this was his own story, lightly fictionalized in the character of Ned Weeks and happening in real time.
Veep is, especially in its recent seasons, an acerbic and highly fictionalized representation of the political system that (barely) keeps the US propped up.
Rae stars as a fictionalized version of herself who's grappling with a static relationship and the realities of being a self-proclaimed awkward black woman.
Society is inching ever closer to Mike Judge's fictionalized universe, although, in the real-world version, all those delivery startups might get displaced by Amazon.
The comedy, which aired from 1990-1996, featured Smith as a fictionalized version of himself who moves in with his wealthy relatives in Bel Air.
Based on a memoir by Brad Land chronicling the author's transformation from victim to pledge, Goat stars Ben Schnetzer as the fictionalized version of Land.
And the semi-fictionalized version of the scandal portrayed on film in All the President's Men is an emotional and intellectual touchstone for many journalists.
Adapted from an autobiography of the same name, Shrill centers around the life of Annie, a fictionalized mashup of Bryant and writer/journalist Lindy West.
Adapting the book, the first season followed a fictionalized version of the doomed Franklin Arctic expedition of 1845, injecting supernatural horror into the known history.
Hacksaw Ridge is heavily fictionalized (though still less so than most based-on-true-events movies) and its plot contrivances and conveniences get mighty mawkish.
It would have been good to hear a little of what he was saying in private, even if it's only a best-guess fictionalized version.
So Primo Carnera, like his loosely fictionalized screen iteration, was surrounded by ne'er do wells and thieves—and likely with much less charm than Bogart.
The Lifetime show UnReal, which centers around a fictionalized Bachelor-like franchise, depicts producers egging on contestants until they break down in grief or rage.
In his first novel, "Everything Is Illuminated," a fictionalized version of the author tracks his family history to a Jewish Ukrainian shtetl destroyed by Nazis.
I finished the book feeling that I had come to understand the author himself (or at least his fictionalized counterpart) far better than his subject.
Songs From Rockwood tells fictionalized stories of real women who lived at an asylum for the criminally insane that in Canada in the late 1800s.
According to Grillo, this bombardment of fictionalized narcos both makes drug war media mainstream and blurs the line between the real people and fictional depictions.
But "Black Wave," part fictionalized memoir, part apocalyptic fantasia, blends dark humor with touches of mysticism to suggest how misleading the phrase "settling down" is.
Watch: In Hulu's "Pen15," Anna Konkle and Maya Erskine play lightly fictionalized versions of themselves in seventh grade, surrounded by actual 13-year-old actors.
Natalie Portman plays an astronaut in this fictionalized take on the strange and dark events the followed real-life astronaut Lisa Nowak's return to Earth.
In April I reviewed a fictionalized film story of the Le Pen effect, "This Is Our Land," which demonstrates how fascism finds an acceptable face.
Ms. Cullinan had recently completed a third novel, "Starting From Scratch," a fictionalized account of her days as a young secretary at The New Yorker.
Luckily for the Israeli director, Guy Nattiv — whose sketchy, partly fictionalized screenplay feels both eventful and unsatisfyingly hurried — Bell's isn't the only fine performance here.
Luckily for the Israeli director, Guy Nattiv — whose sketchy, partly fictionalized screenplay feels both eventful and unsatisfyingly hurried — Bell's isn't the only fine performance here.
" Ms. Lambert's story was also told in a 2004 HBO documentary, "Hitler's Pawn," and, in partly fictionalized form, in the 2009 German film "Berlin 36.
The NBC show follows a similar, fictionalized version of the story about the drama of living in a small town with a passionate football team.
Netflix description: Auteur Sion Sono helms the fictionalized retelling of how one charismatic leader led his followers down a bizarre, gruesome, deadly and depraved path.
The play and film, "Inherit the Wind," cast his somewhat fictionalized character as a crabbed, narrow-minded, reactionary fundamentalist, standing in the way of change.
The sensational — if grim — discovery is one of the rare moments when the reality of police work all but trumps fictionalized TV true crime tales.
He wrote a lightly fictionalized memoir describing the persecution of workers there, and he has called for better medical care for retirees from the project.
Rae's Insecure — a sharp and very funny comedy about a fictionalized version of Rae trying to find herself — is a welcome exception to that rule.
Now "Please Continue," Frank Basloe's relentlessly thought-provoking fictionalized study of the people involved with the experiments, is on the stage of the Ensemble Studio Theater.
In fact, in this fictionalized version of the story, it seems that Gypsy fell out of love with him the moment he actually killed her mother.
It would be the lie that finally began to unravel Dee Dee's other misdeeds, and the one the started the fictionalized character's journey on The Act.
Edelman takes a wider scope than Ryan Murphy's fictionalized account of the Simpson trial, which dug into the courtroom drama and the multi-ring media circus.
While the details of their relationship was largely fictionalized in the film, rumors that the two women had a secret romance were prevalent during Anne's reign.
Dirty John is now streaming on Netflix, which means now is the perfect time to get caught up on the real story behind the fictionalized version.
So, while the HBO version of the Millerites is obviously fictionalized, the opening scene does show how such a cult has parallels with the Guilty Remnant.
Leftovers creator Damon Lindelof confirmed to Vulture the scene is a fictionalized version of 1800s Christian sect the Millerites, who had a large presence Down Under.
The fictionalized aspect of what is now "inspired by" the book has provided writer-director David Michod more latitude to embellish events, without fear of litigation.
The somewhat fictionalized account is nevertheless getting a theatrical release, perhaps a sign of nostalgia that's already setting in during the waning days of Obama's presidency.
All told the fictionalized version of the famous case scored 22 Emmy nominations, but failed to top HBO's "Game of Thrones," which came in with 23.
Adapted from a nonfiction book, and counting Jim Carrey among its producers, the series features fictionalized characters juxtaposed against a backdrop populated by real-life personalities.
The Farewell is a story about a family mixing truth and fiction, but it's also a fictionalized version of a thing that really happened to you.
The searing detail from "Tell Me How It Ends," about the telephone numbers sewn into the dresses, appears again in this fictionalized version of the story.
Whether fictionalized versions or diaristic accounts, both books tell stories of accomplishment burdened not just by depression, but by the fear of sharing and discussing it.
It looks like a fictionalized take on a Matt Lauer / Today show situation, with everyone looking a little sad but also very ready to be inspirational.
"Fear presides over these memories, a perpetual fear," is how the novel, which is written from the point of view of the fictionalized Philip Roth, begins.
William Wells Brown's novel "Clotel; Or the President's Daughter," first published in 1853, offered up a story of the lives of Thomas Jefferson's fictionalized slave daughters.
And in Yee's fictionalized evocation of that time, Neary (an earnest Courtney Reed) — a young American NGO worker of Cambodian descent — has stumbled upon crucial evidence.
Although we see some documentation, it sounds like Maxwell, who wrote what Brugger describes as a "fictionalized account" of his life, had a penchant for fabulism.
Critic Score: 36%Audience Score: 76%A fictionalized version of Sophia Amoruso's autobiography, Netflix's "Girlboss" is about a woman's journey to create a successful fashion business.
And "Patriots Day," which follows the bombing and investigation through a fictionalized cop played by Mark Wahlberg, opened here and a few other cities in December.
Her story of sexual harassment by former Fox News chief Roger Ailes (John Lithgow) is a horrifying one, in both the real-life and fictionalized versions.
Mr. Einstein played Marty Funkhouser, Mr. David's pal and occasional antagonist, on "Curb Your Enthusiasm," the long-running fictionalized version of Mr. David's life on HBO.
Although we see some documentation, it sounds like Maxwell, who wrote what Brugger describes as a "fictionalized account" of his life, had a penchant for fabulism.
The previous season of this fictionalized series about the drug kingpin Pablo Escobar (Wagner Moura) and the Medellín cartel ended with Mr. Escobar's death in 1993.
We also learn that they worship a god named Manon, who is some kind of fictionalized God-Satan collab who is—red flag alert—a dude.
They are both highly fictionalized and hyper-real: invoking sublime American landscape painting and magic realism, with a dreamy but tightly realized rhythm of compositional organization.
Set in a pre-social media culture, the film touches on the very real problems of trading human interaction for time spent invested in fictionalized characters.
But the three leading ladies — Darke, Anna Camp (Pitch Perfect) and Genevieve Angelson (House of Lies) — play fictionalized researchers at a magazine called News of the Week.
Their relationship, which led to the killing of Dee Dee, is fictionalized in Hulu's The Act, with recent episodes showing the pair's initial face-to-face meeting.
But I was there to perform a specific function, and at first, I didn't see the grim aspects I had read about or seen fictionalized on television.
The popular fascination with hypnotism extended beyond fictionalized representations: Green shares depictions of somnambulist parties in Paris salons and even a bizarre "Hypnotized Tea Party" from 1896.
She is frequently compared to Maria Bamford, whose Netflix show Lady Dynamite is a fictionalized, surreal rendering of Bamford's return to LA after a mental health breakdown.
He's still a privileged white member of the 1 percent drawing power from a fictionalized Asian culture, destined to save his corner of New York from evil.
For example, Jasmine, who is supposed to be from Agrabah – originally Baghdad but fictionalized because of the Gulf War in 1991 – has an Indian-named tiger, Rajah.
The fictionalized plot of the film is a tale as old as time: A small town girl leaves home to chase her dream in the Big City.
Americans watched the television movie, "The Day After," a fictionalized account of a town in Kansas during a nuclear war, fearing that this could easily come true.
On the flip side, through this story (fictionalized though it may be), we're also forced to confront the fact that we don't have the whole story either.
The original film also provided fans with a fictionalized account of what happened between Jordan's retirement from the NBA in 1993 to his eventual comeback in 1995.
A similar dynamic might explain the other hit of the week: HBO's Chernobyl, the partly fictionalized adaptation of Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich's oral history, Voices of Chernobyl.
And this film is literally my biography — fictionalized, dramatized, but still my biography — merged with the work and the voice I've been developing while I've been here.
We've already gotten glimpses of a fictionalized Trump taking advice from the ghost of Richard Nixon and getting tucked in by Steve Bannon on The Late Show.
Larry David, who cocreated that show and inspired the character, upped the ante with this follow-up, in which he plays a (perhaps) fictionalized version of himself.
The work is also accompanied by a net art piece which connects the myth to a semi-fictionalized poetic retelling of the artist's adolescence in Tehran, Iran.
"Framing John DeLorean," a smart, hook-filled blend of documentary and fictionalized re-enactments, opens with a question: Why haven't more movies been made about John DeLorean?
In 2011, Doug Ellin, a producer of "Entourage" and a fan since childhood, cast him in the final season as a fictionalized version of Andrew Dice Clay.
The hit 1980 film "The Blues Brothers," directed by John Landis, told the fictionalized story of Jake and Elwood Blues's quest to get their band back together.
Her fictionalized take on more than 20 years' worth of letters from T. S. Eliot to his confidante Emily Hale figures prominently in this carefully crafted novel.
The receding wave of the 1960s has beached these lefties, gently, at "the Foundation," a fictionalized version of Topeka's Menninger Foundation, where Lerner's psychologist parents once practiced.
In this fictionalized mafia movie, a gang of young criminals tries to take over part of New York from the group of older men who control it.
Set in a lightly fictionalized version of Freeman's own past, it's a story of long-distance relationships, massively multiplayer online role-playing games, sexuality, and growing up.
Take My Wife centers on Cameron and Rhea — lightly fictionalized versions of Esposito and Butcher — and chronicles their lives both as working comics and as a couple.
Eggers&apos book is unique in that it presents a fictionalized version that riffs on one of the major themes that ushered in the gig economy: displacement.
We have books about ordinary girls who fall in love with British princes, and TV shows about the soapy, glamorous hijinks of a fictionalized British royal family.
We have books about ordinary girls who fall in love with British princes and TV shows about the soapy, glamorous hijinks of a fictionalized British royal family.
Queer folk in this fictionalized Tokyo are forced to the fringes—the only places society has deemed appropriate—unlike the Phantom Thieves who stay there to steal treasures.
Henda continues to play on expectations of narratives about African independence with "Spaceship Icarus 13" (2008) — a fictionalized retelling of a voyage to space which never took place.
Woodley will be playing a fictionalized version of Tami Oldham, the woman half of the couple, who sailed over 1,000 miles in 41 days post-hurricane in 1983.
Here's a first look at CBS's fictionalized exploration of the early days of building rockets... and how, I don't know, maybe dark magic and sex cults were involved?
Stitching together "documentary techniques with fictionalized narrative," as Tourmaline and Wortzel tell me over the phone, the 15-minute film"refuses categorization" as a documentary, drama, or biopic.
Further investigation revealed that the account was "a fictionalized character being used by the marketing arm of a fly-by-night e-commerce operation" selling Trump-related merchandise.
With the 1984 film and album "Purple Rain," he told a fictionalized version of his own story: biracial (although Prince's parents were both African-American), gifted, spectacularly ambitious.
Kevin Spacey, the president in the U.S. version of "House of Cards," plays President Nixon in "Elvis & Nixon," a fictionalized take on an Oval Office meeting in 1970.
The start of the campaign coincides with the theatrical release this week of the movie "Snowden," a sympathetic, fictionalized version of his story by the director Oliver Stone.
The exhibition traces her three-decade reign, interspersing short video clips from some of the many fictionalized and documentary films about her life with the objects on display.
But the fictionalized version of the iconic murders and subsequent court case has also stirred up the dust in real life — and could potentially lead to a breakthrough.
One of the stories, written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is a fictionalized account of Olikoye Ransome Kuti, the Health Minister of Nigeria (and brother of musician Fela Kuti).
Bryant plays a fictionalized version of West, named Annie, who resembles West at the moment when Spock was helping her break out of society's anti-fat mind-prison.
"Run This Town," a jagged, snappy procedural that splits its time between a downsizing newspaper and a dysfunctional city government, is a fictionalized account of an actual scandal.
The Manson Family is a gory and violent fictionalized recounting of the formation of Charles Manson's "family" of followers and their exploits leading up to the 1969 murders.
Poetry and family photographs punctuate Michael Ondaatje's "Running in the Family," the Booker Prize-winning Canadian writer's fictionalized account of his childhood and ancestral history in Sri Lanka.
A disorder called Munchausen by proxy has made headlines lately, thanks to fictionalized TV accounts of malicious moms on shows like The Politician, The Act, and Sharp Objects.
But, while hip hop lovers might learn some new information about the Wu-Tang Clan, there's one small caveat to keep in mind: the show is technically fictionalized.
That Mr. Zimmerman has taken on important (if fictionalized) events, and engaged the painful questions that arise from them, is in part what we ask theater to do.
Bright and bouncy until it turns grim, "Bombshell" is a fictionalized account of the women who brought down Roger Ailes, the chairman and chief executive of Fox News.
The film is a fictionalized depiction of the life of fighter pilots at the Top Gun training program, and it brought fame and recognition to the elite training.
Directed by Branagh, the film gives a heavily fictionalized account of Shakespeare's later life, following the playwright as he returns to Stratford-upon-Avon after success in London.
At the movies, we review "Cars 3"; "All Eyez on Me," a fictionalized biography of the rapper Tupac Shakur; and "Rough Night," starring Scarlett Johansson and Kate McKinnon.
Adapting James Frey's infamously fictionalized memoir, "A Million Little Pieces," the director Sam Taylor-Johnson niftily elides the book's truthiness problem with an introductory quotation from Mark Twain.
An avid photographer, his images have appeared in National Geographic, and he has appeared on more than one TV show as a fictionalized version of, well, Ben Folds.
As an actor, Charles Martin Smith once played a fictionalized version of the real-life writer Farley Mowat in "Never Cry Wolf," a sometimes strenuously realistic Arctic adventure.
Fictionalized anchorwomen come in a couple of models — let's call them the Murphy Brown and the Corky Sherwood — who represent the dual expectations for women in the role.
"The Formaldehyde Trip" (2017) is a series of musical videos by Naomi Rincón Gallardo depicting a fictionalized account of murdered Mixtec activist Bety Cariño's journey to the underworld.
Adapted from film's screenplay for the stage by Tony winner Harvey Fierstein (Hairspray), the musical is a fictionalized telling of the real-life 1899 New York City newsboy strike.
There may be real-life companies, persons, or events incidentally mentioned in this story, but such mentions may also be fictionalized for the purposes of furthering this narrative story.
Update December 20th, 4:45PM: Mark Zuckerberg has posted a second video, showcasing a presumably fictionalized account of how his wife, Priscilla Chan, has dealt with having Jarvis installed.
I think that the fictionalized portrayal of women in prison can do damage if it's not equated with a real understanding of what's happening to real women and families.
On a surface level, Halt and Catch Fire is about the rise of computers in the late '80s, and the lives of a few fictionalized people who built them.
Their Finest is a fictionalized, bittersweet drama about making movies during the Blitz, and it has all the romance, tragedy, and humor of the films its characters are creating.
After successfully launching the acclaimed scripted series Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce and Odd Mom Out, Bravo is continuing its foray into fictionalized television with their new original drama, Imposters.
The fictionalized biopic recounting the infamous skater's life before, during and after the "whack heard 'round the world" failed to make it into a tight race for Best Picture.
For instance, mosasaurs, the giant carnivores recently fictionalized in Jurassic World, soldiered through the upheavals and emerged as the dominant marine predators until they were killed alongside the dinosaurs.
This fictionalized account of what happened when the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded near the city of Pripyat, Ukraine emphasizes the many ways officials failed the public with catastrophic consequences.
Though it's fictionalized, and he prefers not to say exactly which scenes are true, the onscreen Fails shares a strikingly similar backstory with the real-life 24-year-old.
Throughout the game, a fictionalized Wreden acts the smitten fan, constantly trying to interpret the meaning of Coda's abstract creations while considering him to be a great, unknown genius.
As an edgier and more abrasive successor to Seinfeld, the series followed a fictionalized version of David dealing with his home life, success, and the general bizarreness of Hollywood.
Vitoria Bas, an illustration student at Central Saint Martins in London, used her knowledge of the characters to create fictionalized accounts of what they might stream in their downtime.
It's a thinly veiled tract — a piece of fictionalized propaganda in which the protagonist, Pozdnyshev, a confessed wife-killer, ventriloquizes Tolstoy's ideas about the moral necessity of sexual abstinence.
Chloé Zhao's drama "The Rider" (April 13) is based on the true story of—and also stars—the rodeo competitor Brady Jandreau, who plays a fictionalized version of himself.
But I will tell you what isn't fictionalized are her e-mails, where she destroyed 33,1003 e-mails criminally, criminally, after getting a subpoena from the United States Congress.
Next week, 2K Games and Hangar13 are set to release Mafia III, an open-world action game set in a fictionalized version of 1968 New Orleans called New Bordeaux.
Today's iteration of her character is still a superhero, though usually an unwilling one, whose mother used to write fictionalized (and very embarrassing) comics about her as a teengager.
After joining the House of Evangelista, he successfully auditions — with a heart-on-sleeve routine to Whitney Houston — for the prestigious New School of Dance (a fictionalized Ailey School).
Set in a middle school in 2000, the Hulu comedy has the pair playing lightly fictionalized versions of themselves in seventh grade, surrounded by actual 13-year-old actors.
Now, he's never been arrested on a drug charge, so he had to be anonymous, and we ended up co-writing what's essentially a fictionalized version of his adventures.
John felt more alienated from his father, Zacharias (known as Jack or Zac), as the author elaborated in "Summertime" (2009), the third and most fictionalized of his autobiographical books.
It's set in LA and follows the fictionalized life of an actual star, so there are always ample opportunities for real-life celebrities to pop into the show's universe.
The takeover of northern Mali between 2012 and 2013 by radical Islamist forces got a powerful fictionalized treatment in the widely acclaimed 2014 film "Timbuktu," directed by Abderrahmane Sissako.
The trip was inspired in part, Mr. Woolery said, because he had just read John Steinbeck's "Cannery Row," which fictionalized life during the Great Depression among Monterey's sardine canneries.
Even "Everlasting," the fictionalized show at the core of the drama "Unreal," had a black male suitor in its second season, a barrier "The Bachelor" has yet to hurdle.
PROJECT For the past nine months my friend Doug has come over at 3 and we work on a fictionalized show we're writing about my experience in Silicon Valley.
The movie is a fictionalized version of Oxenberg's memoir, slated to air for the first time in Canada this Sunday, September 29 [premiered in the U.S. on September 21].
All Jeremiah knows of the West are the romantic myths that he has learned from tattered dime novels, some of which feature fictionalized tales right out of Lefty's past.
"Mapplethorpe," directed by Ondi Timoner, is a fictionalized biography of the photographer that is most alive when it's putting its subject's pictures on the screen, which it does often.
It was something like a religious experience — one that I fictionalized in the first chapter of my novel "The King's Evil," which got me my first art writing job.
But I will tell you what isn't fictionalized are her e-mails where she destroyed 33,000 e-mails criminally, criminally, after getting a subpoena from the United States Congress.
One of the pioneers of CRISPR, the powerful gene editing technology, seems curious but guarded about the prospect of a fictionalized bioterror TV show based on her team's work.
In this world, a big-brother media conglomerate called The Network has taken over the US government and is at war with a fictionalized Middle Eastern country akin to Iran.
We all know that truth is stranger than fiction, so why shouldn't the writers use some true crime reports to inspire the fictionalized crimes, and the offenders who perform them?
From those incredibly realistic images, the character of Slender Man took on a life of its own, spawning a slew of creepypasta — scary fictionalized short stories made for the internet.
Instead of a medieval fantasy setting, Sekiro transports you to a fictionalized 1500s Japan during the Sengoku period where you battle a myriad of opponents, from samurai to giant snakes.
Loosely Exactly Nicole follows a fictionalized version of star Nicole Byer's life as a working actor who's both black and several sizes bigger than most anyone leading a network sitcom.
The two began the FBI Behavioral Science Unit in 1972, but entered the pop culture zeitgeist last year when fictionalized versions of the agents appeared in Netflix's hit series, Mindhunter.
Docuseries director Joe Berlinger, who is also releasing a fictionalized account of Bundy's crimes starring Zac Efron, tells PEOPLE it's that incongruity about Bundy's character that he wanted to explore.
On August 3, VICELAND will drop a brand new scripted TV series that takes you globetrotting with Diplo—or at least a fictionalized version played by James Van Der Beek.
As portrayed in this admiring fictionalized feature, he just about has the power of traveling singers of myth, able to cross insurmountable barriers and sway hearts with his honeyed voice.
But the sentiment has a long history, popularized beginning in the 1980s and '90s with a spate of genre movies that fictionalized true stories of women imperiled by their husbands.
Like Shakespeare In Love, the show is a semi-fictionalized dramatization of what the life of the legendary playwright might have been like played out by young and beautiful actors.
Even fictionalized depictions of PTSD often involve vivid flashbacks of armed conflict, which can make people who have milder symptoms feel guilt or shame about the "validity" of their experience.
On another, however, "The Collection" works as a thinly fictionalized version of the Dior success story, and a reminder of what it was like when men were running the show.
But the three leading ladies — Erin Darke (Love & Mercy), Anna Camp (Pitch Perfect) and Genevieve Angelson (House of Lies) — play fictionalized researchers at a magazine called News of the Week.
In a recent interview with MTV News, LaBeouf, who plays a fictionalized version of his own father in the movie, said that writing Honey Boy saved his life and career.
Next week, 2K Games and Hangar 13 are set to release Mafia III, an open-world action game set in a fictionalized version of 1968 New Orleans called New Bordeaux.
Set in the 1980s, GLOW is a fictionalized story of Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, the women's wrestling promotion that capitalized on the success of the still-booming WWE (then WWF).
And if that doesn't sound like perfect "Netflix and chill" material to you, then simply consider this Channing Tatum's fictionalized origin story and shut up and enjoy "Pony" by Ginuwine.
This is not a spectacular picture, but it's an informative and heartening one that might make a good double feature with "First Man," the forthcoming fictionalized blockbuster about Apollo 11.
Vivian Neuwirth's play is a fictionalized recollection of the life of the novelist John Kennedy Toole, who died before his Pulitzer-Prize winning classic "A Confederacy of Dunces" was published.
This fictionalized portrait of Miracle Mop mastermind Joy Mangano is long on emotional flourishes but lacks the engaging storytelling that made Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustleso much more satisfying.
Drawing loosely from the lives of the Soviet rock musicians Viktor Tsoi and Mike Naumenko, "Leto" plays less like a biopic than a loving compilation of fictionalized, fan-inspired notes.
He was also a founder of ConnectU, a part of his life that was depicted in the 2010 film "The Social Network," a fictionalized look at the people behind Facebook.
Based on the true story of how serial-killer criminal profiling began in the FBI, the series features fictionalized depictions of notorious figures like Charles Manson and Son of Sam.
Not a whole lot actually happens on the drama-infused comedy from Australian creator Josh Thomas and writer Thomas Ward, both of whom also star as fictionalized versions of themselves.
Mr. Thomas's fictionalized account of what went wrong is an indictment of Wall Street greed and parvenus, but it also holds President Obama responsible for letting them get away with it.
The condiment brand plans to run a set of billboards and print ads cribbed from a pitch Don Draper made to a fictionalized version of the company in the AMC series.
In episode 6 of Hulu's fictionalized series about the mother and daughter, a young Dee Dee goes to jail for writing bad checks shortly after giving birth to Gypsy (Joey King).
Appearing most prominently in Episode 6 "Return to Murder House," the fictionalized LaVey introduces himself and his two followers to Michael Langdon, AHS's Antichrist, as members of The Church of Satan.
Set during a fictionalized take on Japan's Sengoku period, during the 1500s — the same timeframe as Kurosawa's Seven Samurai — the parallels between the two go deeper than just era and mythology.
A new play, Distant Star, adapted by the theater company Caborca from Robert Bolaño's landmark 1993 Spanish novel, invites a New York audience into how a fictionalized circle of poets responded.
She's a fictionalized amalgamation of early-2000s 20-somethings who, for the first time in history, could live lives shaped by an inclination for shit-stirring and widely available internet access.
The screening I was at was particularly special though, because Skate Kitchen is a real group of skaters from New York, who star in the film as fictionalized versions of themselves.
That's the comparison Amazon desperately wants me to make regarding its newest drama, which takes place in 1969 and centers on the New York City newsroom of a fictionalized Newsweek magazine.
She was also renowned for "Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady," a well-received, somewhat fictionalized 1985 memoir in which she plumbed the depths, and the shallows, of her genteel upbringing.
The industry insider theorizes original Silicon Valley angel investor and best character Peter Gregory (the late Christopher Evan Welch) is almost entirely a fictionalized version of "eccentric libertarian billionaire" Peter Thiel.
A fictionalized World War II allegory, Valkyria Chronicles was about a plucky group of freedom fighters defending their resource-rich homeland from an invading empire as it spread across the continent.
The cartoon family moves to Washington, D.C., for the new gig at the White House and Peter's daughter Meg has an "unpleasant encounter" with a fictionalized Trump, according to EW's preview.
Since the movie gives us no other view of campus life but the frat's (the picture takes place at a fictionalized school), the viewer has no choice but to believe that.
Geena Davis stars in this fictionalized retelling of the inaugural season of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, with all the heartbreak and good cheer of a classic sports movie.
She said she enjoyed writing fictionalized accounts of the romantic intrigue — especially homosexual relations — in China's imperial dynasties, notably the Qin, the first dynasty that flourished more than 2,200 years ago.
Even if Stone's semi-fictionalized two hours can't settle specific questions about Snowden the man and how he did what he did, "Snowden" paints a broad argument as to the why.
It stars a trio of ambitious women working in New York City at Scarlet, a fictionalized version of Cosmopolitan by way of Teen Vogue's rebrand as the internet's most intersectional magazine.
Since the time he first left WWE in 2005, Jericho has studied acting—improv, most notably—and for eight years tried to sell this fictionalized version of his foray into acting.
But Extremely Wicked, which debuted at Sundance this year, offers a somewhat fictionalized version of Bundy's relationship with real-life, long-term girlfriend Kloepfer as he navigated his own homicide trials.
"Bonfire," which was published by Crown Archetype earlier this month, is Ms. Ritter's fictionalized dive into her own rural upbringing and a thriller in the style of her favorite genre novels.
There is even humor — or what qualifies as humor in a play revolving around Tarkovsky — as the barely fictionalized characters wait for the unnamed director to find the exact right light.
The way McKenney tells it, she fell into writing humorous sketches because she needed money while working on her passion project, a fictionalized history of the United Rubber Workers of America.
But some, in response to barely believable current events, choose to embrace a fictionalized version of reality, one that harkens back to their idealized version of life before everything went haywire.
But Ms. Iglauer disowned the production, in part because it included a fictionalized scene of Mr. Daly (played by Tim Matheson) sinking his ship — something she believed would never have occurred.
To ratchet up the film's bizarro quality, Ryan made frequent use of a fisheye lens that warped the scenes to wild effect, underscoring the strangeness of the fictionalized Queen Anne's court.
The book is made up of fictionalized stories about several jazz greats, like Chet Baker and Thelonious Monk, in which he reveals insights into the men as well as their music.
She graphically recalled their sexual encounters — so graphically and in such conversational detail that some reviewers questioned the memoir's veracity and suggested that she should have written a fictionalized narrative instead.
It will be the first episode of the series, in which the misanthropic comedian Larry David plays a lightly fictionalized version of himself, since the Season 8 finale in Sept. 2011.
Less convincing is a new exhibition by the British artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, who presents a rushed and feeble new suite of oil paintings that continues her project of fictionalized portraiture.
Art imitates life: The theologically fraught relationship between the two living popes has been fictionalized in "The Two Popes," a film starring Anthony Hopkins as Benedict and Jonathan Pryce as Francis.
"David Weil, creator and executive producer of Hunters, told BI that the key scene being criticized was "a fictionalized event" included "to powerfully counteract the revisionist narrative that whitewashes Nazi perpetration.
Although Mr. Wahlberg's character, a police detective who's working off a suspension by doing uniformed duty at the marathon, is a fictionalized composite, almost all of the other characters — from Gov.
Her downfall coincides with the rise of fictionalized, ambitious Fox News-loving intern, Kayla (Margot Robbie), and her own harsh realization that her dream job might, in fact, be a nightmare.
For several days, the pair converse — and sometimes spar — as they start to realize there's more common ground between them than they'd thought The Two Popes is thoroughly and purposefully fictionalized.
The second season of this fictionalized series centers on her soon-to-be grandmother-in-law, Queen Elizabeth II, as her reign stretches into the '60s with social mores changing rapidly.
Though Nicole & O.J. is not the first fictionalized portrayal of what happened between the Simpsons, Small reveals the upcoming project, directed by Joshua Newton, will feature a different and possibly controversial perspective.
Motherboard interviewed Delaney back in November when he released Pounded By Pluto, where a fictionalized Neil Degrasse Tyson actually makes love with the planet, which turns out to be a sentient being.
" The filing accuses Kathleen Durst's family of opportunism, claiming the relatives chose "to do nothing for 30 years," before trying to "piggyback upon the hype created by a fictionalized HBO docu-drama.
All of these cases made one thing abundantly clear: The tech industry didn't need a fictionalized TV show to point out just how bad things were for women in the Valley anymore.
As the years wore on, and members entered and exited, Kasher would build expansive worlds inside his songs, exploring everything from religion and romantic disillusionment to sprawling, fictionalized operas he dreamed up.
He memorably appeared in 2008's JCVD, a crime drama that saw a semi-fictionalized version of the Belgian caught in the middle of a post office robbery in his home country.
The Richard Avedon Foundation published a working list of errors and fictionalized material it claims to have identified in Avedon: Something Personal (2017), a biography by Norma Stevens and Steven M.L. Aronson.
A fictionalized retelling of the true story of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, it centered on a sibling rivalry—feuding sisters who could still love one another despite it all.
"Quality and profitability do go hand in hand," the fictionalized Graham declares in her opening scene, as she rehearses for a meeting about the newspaper's plan to go public as a company.
Undoubtedly Ted's defining contribution to the series, it sees a fugitive Sonic rolling around at the speed of sound as he races through a fictionalized San Francisco to escape the armed forces.
Lawyers for FX are more partial to a 1979 State Supreme Court decision disallowing a post-mortem right-of-publicity claim against a fictionalized TV movie about the life of Rudolph Valentino.
There she raised three daughters after her divorce in 2010, providing the thinly fictionalized source material for her show, where she is the star, as well as the main writer and director.
In the meantime Mr. Limonov had written, among other things, "His Butler's Story" (19823), another fictionalized memoir, inspired by his time as a housekeeper to a wealthy Manhattanite in the late 21982s.
Well, yeah, it was a different form, and then there was the additional thing where a lot of it, it really is fictionalized, which is something that was completely new for me.
Then again, this is exactly what Gaskell did to Charlotte Brontë in her revisionist (for which read "borderline-fictionalized") biography, so one could argue that there is a neat symmetry in play.
Kimberly's version of the big-city fantasy was also shaped by reruns of "Felicity," a late-nineties drama set at a lightly fictionalized version of N.Y.U. Her dream school did not disappoint.
In the sketch, Singh arrives at a (presumably fictionalized) NBC to discuss her show, only to find that the room full of white guys need to be educated on her whole deal.
The book has been taken as a fictionalized memoir in which the less-than-trustworthy Gary credits his success to his determined mother, Nina (played by Charlotte Gainsbourg, speaking French and Polish).
A fictionalized retelling of the 2013 documentary 12 O'Clock Boys, Charm City Kings takes somewhat of a vérité approach by featuring real riders from Baltimore, heightening the more exhilarating scenes and camerawork.
Irresistible looks like a fictionalized spin on the exact type of political nonsense he used to skewer: Democrats desperate to connect, Republicans constantly lying, and pundits going overboard on all of it.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, Stone is slated to play real-life film star Clara Bow, and Brad Pitt will be her fictionalized love interest, inspired by old Hollywood's "Great Lover" John Gilbert.
"Wantee" the installation that won her the Turner Prize, is a film about her fictionalized grandfather, a famous conceptual artist who disappeared one day down a tunnel he dug under his house.
Then they watched the Academy award-winning film about the Globe reporters' work, "Spotlight," paying particular attention to scenes in which the fictionalized reporters persuaded people to go public with their stories.
"We wanted to leave it to the audience to decipher what's real, what's based on something real, what's completely fictionalized," Spelling said at a Television Critics Association event where networks preview new shows.
According to BuzzFeed, Diane Kruger plays a fictionalized version of Asia Argento, who directed, co-wrote, and starred in an adaptation of LeRoy's short story collection The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things.
She is also a consultant to the show, who, at earlier stages in the series, played a more significant role in advising how the fictionalized world of Litchfield Prison should look and feel.
This fictionalized series and Golden Globe nominee chronicles the rise of the Medellín cartel and the Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar (Wagner Moura, who received a nod for best actor in a drama).
Focusing on a lightly fictionalized version of the NXIVM cult, episode 5 of season 20 of SVU found the detectives investigating a murder with ties to a mysterious "women's empowerment" group called Accredo.
Second, she sees a similar product to one of her vintage items being sold in the front window of a fictionalized version of Urban Outfitters, and third, she second-guesses the entire brand.
Even more importantly, they allow us to imagine a past—fictionalized or not—in which women across class systems explored sex on their own terms, providing viewers our own opportunities for carnal voyeurism.
A fictionalized biopic "The Danish Girl," has garnered positive reviews, and nominations for several awards, notably BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations for best actor for Eddie Redmayne and best actress for Alicia Vikander.
But even though the fictionalized version of the city is in complete disarray, more dangerous (and somehow dirtier) than the real thing, it still feels like New York — uncannily so for some residents.
Gauguin's real flaws (from our perspective) may have even been incorrigibly semi-fictionalized and certainly elaborated in the interests of myth making, à la Jean Genet in his brilliant book The Thief's Journal.
Meanwhile, we'll just have to bury our sorrows in The Bachelorette, currently airing on ABC and almost as dramatic as the fictionalized version of the behind-the-scenes — but only one has Whaboom.
In "Battlefield 1," the long-running series is set against a fictionalized backdrop of World War I.That means trench warfare, mustard gas, gangrenous appendages, and battle on a scale previously unseen on Earth.
In an attempt to mess with the staid, patriarchal Western perspective that museums present of history, Williams created a fictionalized back story for the object from a perspective that better spoke to her.
BlacKkKlansman understands what's so fun about characters like Shaft or like the fictionalized Ron Stallworth, who can serve as figures who hold all of the power that's denied to too many black moviegoers.
It tells a fictionalized story of Bartolina Sisa—a woman of the Andes mountain range's native Aymara people, from whom Crampton descends—who led a rebellion against the Spanish and was eventually executed.
After the gentle piano intro in D minor, the killer guitar lick, and the spoken-word setup for his thinly-fictionalized character Jimmy "Rabbit" Smith Jr.'s "one shot", how does Eminem start?
So the most conspicuous aspect of "Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G.," a lightly fictionalized 10-part limited series on USA that has its premiere on Tuesday, is its certainty.
So when Trump rails against violence in video games, as he's now done multiple times, he's protesting a fictionalized version of the real-life violence that his own rhetoric seems to tacitly encourage.
Among the best received was Pedro Almodóvar's "Pain and Glory," a fictionalized self-portrait starring a deeply moving Antonio Banderas as a filmmaker struggling with his health, his past and his artistic vision.
Last April, The Hollywood Reporter exclusively announced that Annapurna Television had optioned the rights to the New York Times exposé, and was planning on creating a scripted one-hour fictionalized series about NXIVM.
In the fictionalized retelling, her plan is disrupted by American FBI agents who come in on helicopters and mow down Pablo's small Mexican town with machine guns before the Federales take him out.
Matching the fictionalized world with something that consumers can experience — beyond the suspended reality of the theater — is where product placement seems to be heading, said Nancy Hansell, brand strategist at Siegel & Gale.
ROME — The theologically fraught relationship between two living popes — fictionalized in a current movie — is beginning to have very real consequences for the obligation of celibacy for priests in the Roman Catholic Church.
His last novel, "Wittgenstein Jr.," is a funhouse version of this one; it fictionalized the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein as a modern-day Cambridge professor, as seen through the eyes of his students.
The writer-director Mike Mills's last movie, "Beginners," was a lightly comic, fictionalized weepie about his father, who came out of the closet in his mid-70s when his son was an adult.
"The Great Gatsby," F. Scott Fitzgerald This has the harsh tone of fictionalized life, and Jay Gatsby's experiences draw heavily on Fitzgerald's descent into alcoholism, and his wife Zelda's succumbing to mental illness.
This year, Marielle Heller took a more nuanced approach with the fictionalized A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, which initially approaches Rogers with skepticism before embracing his way of looking at the world.
Garcetti was especially happy that, as Lucas had also expressed to him, museum-hoppers at Exposition Park could see the space shuttle or dinosaur bones at neighboring institutions to seeing how they are fictionalized.
So, as convenient as it is that, in the timeline of the fictionalized Hulu series, Dee Dee now needs Gypsy to give her insulin every day, it may well have been a real scenario.
Despite the real-life trappings, the film's characters are fictionalized—but look out for General Hank Pulver (Anthony Michael Hall), McMahon's second-in-command who's based on McChrystal's former second in command: Michael Flynn.
"He who makes no memory of himself during his lifetime will have none after his death, and will be forgotten with the tolling of the final knell," Maximilian intoned in another lightly fictionalized narrative.
In season 2 of the since-canceled show, James, who played a fictionalized version of himself, stressed over who would be his pro dancing partner and how to beat his biggest competition, Dean Cain.
That's because for Jennifer Fox, the film's writer-director, it was real: The film is a very lightly fictionalized version of the sexual relationship she had at 13 with her 40-year-old coach.
Milton Sernett, author of the book Harriet Tubman: Myth, Memory, and History, traces the quote back to a 1970 essay on Tubman that likely pulled the quote from a fictionalized portrayal of Tubman's life.
Joining him were guests like Gillian Jacobs, Nick Kroll, Wolfgang Puck and Aziz Ansari (who lived out a real-life version of the fictionalized food travel show his character pitched on Master of None).
But this fictionalized conflict gives the movie the opportunity to mull Sully's own doubts about his decision and his performance, and to wonder how he will be remembered after four decades as a pilot.
A heavily fictionalized version of the wonderful 2010 documentary Marwencol, Welcome to Marwen follows Mark Hogancamp (Steve Carell), an artist recovering from a brutal attack spurred by his love of wearing women's high heels.
Díaz stars in ID's Dating Game Killer, a fictionalized retelling of the Texas-born murderer, who killed at least seven women and one girl in California and New York through much of the 1970s.
The Berlin-based artist is a prolific producer of zines, comics, and one-off illustrations twisting everyday life into absurd directions, including fictionalized biographies of of celebrities and a series simply called Human News.
Jean-Claude Van Damme will star in an upcoming comedy pilot for Amazon, the Hollywood Reporter says, in which he'll play a fictionalized version of himself who secretly works as a black ops operative.
The Rules Don't Apply director participated in a Reddit Q&A on Thursday, and answered a slew of fan submitted questions, including who he would like to see as a fictionalized version of himself.
Tarantino appeared on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" on Monday night to talk about "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood," which stars, Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, and Margot Robbie in a fictionalized version of 1960s Hollywood.
Perhaps the defining event in the building's postwar life came in 1976, when Yuri Trifonov, a former resident, published his novella " The House on the Embankment ," a loosely fictionalized account of his boyhood there.
Catch up on "Narcos," Netflix's fictionalized version of the rise of the Medellín cartel in the 1980s — and the Drug Enforcement Administration agents charged with bringing it down — before Season 2 begins on Friday.
So her father, I think he was a German immigrant, started collecting these stores and wrote this fictionalized account of them called Gidget because that was her nickname, and it became a best-seller.
But rather than read fictionalized speech bubbles (even well-researched speech bubbles, like Parisi's), I wish we would turn more often to his artworks, which speak volumes through the words scratched into their surfaces.
Though headlined by Miller and Kirshner, the Lifetime movie, a fictionalized account of the scandal, will follow the story of over 50 wealthy and elite families who tried to cheat the college admissions system.
"Junk," the riveting reincarnation of the junk bond era now playing at Lincoln Center, "is a fictionalized account suggested by events in the historical public record," according to an author's note in the program.
It stars Mr. Nanjiani, previously known for the HBO series "Silicon Valley," and tells a fictionalized version of the early stages of his relationship with his then-girlfriend, and now wife, Emily V. Gordon.
A fictionalized account of one of those teams, the Rockford Peaches, this blithely feminist film stars Geena Davis, Lori Petty and Madonna as athletes struggling for respect, and Tom Hanks as their grudging manager.
The reporter gathering these charges goes so far as to suggest, in one pointed question, that Noah's hypersexualized portrayal of Alison in his fictionalized account of their affair might have led to her suicide.
If you look at the official DEA renderings of Leyenda, the organization obviously doesn't mention the inner workings that we see fictionalized as a series of decisions made outside the law in Narcos: Mexico.
While comic book adaptations have ruled screens for the last decade this best-selling and award-winning novel takes a slightly fictionalized look at the dawn of superhero comic books during the Great Depression.
The series is based on Therese Anne Fowler's book "Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald" and is a fictionalized version of the Fitzgeralds' lives with a reasonable underpinning of fact and real-life figures.
In this mash-up of the fictionalized first-person comedy and the demi-celebrity reality show, he plays a version of an actual someone else, the record producer, D.J. and dance-music impresario Diplo.
"In a statement sent to BI, David Weil, creator and executive producer of Hunters, said the human chess scene was "a fictionalized event" included "to powerfully counteract the revisionist narrative that whitewashes Nazi perpetration.
Viewers should understand, though, that this is a docudrama based on a true story, a somewhat fictionalized version of a very real and sad chapter in the history of New York City's criminal justice system.
Of course, the book club didn't come without controversy: Her 2005 selection of James Frey's A Million Little Pieces received criticism after it was revealed that Frey had fictionalized much of his addiction-centered memoir.
But "Shrill" has mined the autobiographical material in West's book to tell a fictionalized story about a young journalist played by Aidy Bryant of "Saturday Night Live" (she also co-wrote the first two episodes).
And in doing so it provides the most successful account of famous men on fictionalized adventures since Measuring the World, Daniel Kehlmann's wry, brilliant account of Carl Friedrich Gauss and Alexander von Humboldt's bisecting careers.
Taking the extremely scarce autobiographies of Afro German survivors as its inspiration, the film's script follows the relationship of a fictionalized mixed race couple living in Nazi Germany, and their fight to save their child.
The reporter Mathilde is a fictionalized version of Marie Colvin, who was killed in Syria in 2012, and played by Emmanuelle Bercot who, complete with eye patch, bears a striking resemblance to the American journalist.
Perhaps the many fictionalized encounters in movies, videogames, and television, in places with names real and imagined, not that it really matters if the latest Call of Duty takes place in Afghanistan or outer space?
In Adaptation, Nic Cage plays a fictionalized version of Charlie Kaufman who, struggling to write his new script, winds up at a McKee seminar in search of something that'll get him through his third act.
In the early 1940s, as later fictionalized in the novel and film "Alone in Berlin," Elise and Otto Hampel secretly dropped postcards with subversive messages, including pleas for a free press, throughout the German capital.
For Sunday Fantasy Zoe Williams collaborated on a film with three co-authors and friends to create a fictionalized story enacted by different actresses united in playing distinct interpretations of a singular character: Veronica Malaise.
But others — for instance, everything out of Entertainment Studios, like Justice for All With Christina Perez and America's Court With Joe Ross — present fictionalized versions of cases, the better to capitalize on their dramatic potential.
In this subtle flinch away from the truth, director George C. Wolfe's fictionalized biography of Lacks — an adaptation of journalist Rebecca Skloot's bestselling 2010 nonfiction memoir of the same name — encapsulates the conflict to come.
He talked to the producers of a 2010 feature film, "All Good Things," which presented a lightly fictionalized version of his life, then agreed to sit with them for more than 20 hours of interviews.
The news that the two star producers would work on "Confederate," a fictionalized drama that imagines the South won the Civil War and slavery remains intact in today's America, was met with an immediate backlash.
But given that the scope of Facebook's influence is the topic of more discussion than ever, it's a particularly interesting time to revisit this fictionalized version of the social network's story, directed by David Fincher.
Point is: In failing to include people of color, even in just the optics of casting, the film ignores how actual racism and systematic oppression affect every corner of America— even in this fictionalized version.
While he was at Yaddo, he kept thinking about the girl and the construction worker, puzzling over what he had seen, and began writing a fictionalized story about the years leading up to the encounter.
Breathtakingly tender and wryly understated, "The Psychology of Time Travel" feels like an antidote to a great deal of reported (and even fictionalized) history, its excised women now finding their way back into the spotlight.
But what grows from that modest start seems to fill not only a vacant lot in a fictionalized Cleveland, but also the whole of the New Victory Theater and the rapt hearts of its audience.
The audience is being asked to read "Alice & Oliver" two ways, both as fiction and as fictionalized autobiography; but most of the book's emotional work is occasioned not by the text but by the context.
But even though we don&apost often see them work much, Ross, Rachel, Monica, Joey, Phoebe, and Chandler have had a number of jobs that have been depicted in both realistic and overly fictionalized ways.
I had come to join him on one of his favorite walks, a cinematic back and forth across the Williamsburg Bridge into Brooklyn, "an old habit" he once fictionalized in a short story for Harper's.
In "Becoming Astrid," the Danish director Pernille Fischer Christensen uses that formative event as a fulcrum, building a lightly fictionalized portrait of the young Lindgren (played by Alba August) from its emotional and practical fallout.
See him here as he plays a lawyer opposite Jessica Chastain in the screenwriter Aaron Sorkin's directorial debut, a fictionalized (and sympathetic) account of the life of the skier-turned-underground poker ringleader Molly Bloom.
But it also gains a certain poignancy from pondering a question that many have thought about but few have fictionalized quite like the show has: Just how are these two still married to each other?
The major roles all share first names with real historical figures (cosmonauts Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Viktor Savinykh, and flight commander Valery Ryumin), but are given new last names to reflect how fictionalized and dramatized they are.
Only, the song doesn't feel quite the same this time, knowing what we know about Dee Dee's (again, fictionalized) devastating history with her mother before she drove her daughter to ask her boyfriend to kill her.
In season 2 of the since-canceled show, Van Der Beek, who played a fictionalized version of himself, stressed over who would be his pro dancing partner and how to beat his biggest competition, Dean Cain.
The series is set to star Britt Robertson (Tomorrowland) as a fictionalized version of Amoruso, and, according to the producers, will be a chance for Netflix viewers to embrace a flawed woman in all her complexity.
Navalny dissected the post in a lengthy video segment available on his YouTube channel, cross-checking his theory against a passage from Vashukevich's fictionalized tell-all, pulling corroborating details from a selection of her Instagram shots.
The director continued his winning streak with "8 Mile," which starred Eminem and fictionalized to some extent the rapper's harrowing true-life story of seeking to break into the rap world in his hometown of Detroit.
It might not sound like the most appealing spectacle for a bunch of clowns to watch a fictionalized version of themselves get hunted down, but in a weird way, huddling together for the screening makes sense.
Fertik and Cowan play fictionalized (?) versions of themselves — the successful entrepreneur who becomes even more insufferable when he takes charge of a $200 million fund, and the venture capitalist who's eager to share in the spotlight.
Instead of a modern hotel, Alan finds his assistants languishing in a sweltering tent without air-conditioning or Wi-Fi in the King's Metropolis of Economy and Trade, a fictionalized version of King Abdullah Economic City.
A deeply researched, fictionalized portrayal of Jewish efforts to document life in the Warsaw Ghetto, The Wall, published in 1950, was the first American novel to deal with what later came to be called the Holocaust.
Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that it is a fictionalized group portrait of certain people living in those times, since Jenkins, the narrator, figures as a version of Woody Allen's character Zelig.
It is a fictionalized account of a real-life queen turned warrior who dressed as a man and fought a doomed war against the British in the Indian Rebellion of 1857, which toppled the Mughal empire.
"Seinfeld" — a sitcom long billed as "a show about nothing" — follows the lives of four friends, including Jerry Seinfeld who plays a fictionalized version of himself, as they navigate their daily lives in New York City.
The absence of gravitational pressure in orbit has been shown to stretch out the spines of astronauts, an effect that's fictionalized in The Expanse franchise with the belters, a super-tall human population raised in microgravity.
It's a painfully sad pair of records and, while Oberst has always combined fictionalized storytelling with personal experience, given the very public turmoil that inspired them, it's easy to read some of the songs as autobiographical.
I revere the Japanese photographer Masahisa Fukase, but his fictionalized portraits of his extended family, complete with impostors taking the roles of absent wives and daughters, overturn expectations of studio portraiture much more than of maleness.
In 1999, Mr. Bocelli released a novel, "The Music of Silence," that offers a fictionalized version of his life; the proxy character, Amos Bardi, is played by Toby Sebastian in this film adaptation by Michael Radford.
We are a country at war against ourselves, driven by these two impulses, and even if McKay thinks he's making a fictionalized Fahrenheit 9/11, he's accidentally succeeded in making a movie about our split consciousness.
The material became the subject of a 20093 feature film by the duo, a somewhat fictionalized version of Mr. Durst's life, "All Good Things," that starred Kirsten Dunst as Kathie and Ryan Gosling as Mr. Durst.
More care seems to be given to humanizing a fictionalized version of the former New York police commissioner William Bratton than to some of the black characters who die from acts of violence that go unexplained.
Napolitano became obsessed, not only by the story, but by social media's fascination with it, so much so that she ended up spending the next eight years writing a fictionalized version set in the United States.
The Staircase will provide true crime enthusiasts any real answers is unlikely, but for those who want to dive into the twisty case from a fictionalized perspective, this sounds like just the way to do it.
The filmmakers piece together a fictionalized account of the life of Olga Hepnarova, who on July 10, 1973, drove a truck onto a sidewalk in Prague and hit at least 20 people, eight of whom died.
Teenagers overseas and entrepreneurs in the United States discovered this year that they could earn thousands of dollars a month by writing wholly fictionalized or wildly exaggerated partisan political news intended to be spread on Facebook.
This lightly fictionalized account of Eminem's origin story depicts the rapper at the end of his wits, living in a trailer park with his mother and taking the bus to his job at a car factory.
For example, the commissioned artist for the recently closed Armory Focus section on African Perspectives, Kapwani Kiwanga, bases her practice on Afrofuturism and fictionalized accounts that imagine a world better than the one we now inhabit.
As the games changed settings from a fictionalized Japan to one that pulls from current events, the game's motivations have also changed, urging players to break their public facade in the name of a greater change.
Another popular draw was a video series called "Is It Just Me?" featuring a scripted, fictionalized look into the lives' and hijinks of a group of friends, told via scrolling text messages on a recorded iPhone screen.
And Dean remains proud of her work even as Gypsy's devoted stepmother, Kristy Blanchard – who will take on Gypsy's care when she's released from prison – has spoken out against some of the fictionalized elements of the show.
So when Attie made the transition to Hollywood as a writer for "The West Wing," he was shocked to learn what an elevated place his fictionalized counterparts held in the imagination of the show's creator, Aaron Sorkin.
Debra Britt, founder of the National Black Doll Museum of History and Culture in Mansfield, Massachusetts, says her long critique of American Girl has been with the way in which they tell fictionalized stories of black girls.
His liberal reworking of the text imagines a fictionalized version of actress Robin Wright who sells her likeness to the sinister Miramount Studios so she'll have more time and money to spend on her ailing young son.
Even the fictionalized portrayals of the brothers' aunts and uncles — some of whom appear in the ABC documentary — are shown to have different interests in the family estate, and thus different investments in believing the brothers' claims.
It's hard to tell whether this is supposed to be a clearly fictionalized version of the more ambiguous meta-story that Poppy's videos hint at, or some kind of key with which to unlock even stranger mysteries.
Bombay and bombast reign in Roberts's fictionalized account of his escape from an Australian prison to India, where, in swashbuckling scene after narrow escape, he is tortured, sexed up, and enlisted in a gang of Afghan gunrunners.
This speaks to the heart of Marvel Comics' charm; their long-standing decision to place their characters in fictionalized versions of real-world cities means that Cage's Harlem is like the Harlem in our world, yet not.
When you start seeing someone of a different race or creed or sexual persuasion or gender or nationality, when you start seeing them in a fictionalized form, living three-dimensional lives, it becomes impossible to otherize them.
Sure, Stranger Things seems to love tying its plot points to 1980s nostalgia, but referencing New Coke and Ghostbusters or whatever is one thing; creating a far-fetched, fictionalized story to explain a catastrophic disaster is another.
Still, the idea of a military man being undone by his ego hardly represents a newsflash, and the fictionalized nature of the story undercuts whatever fly-on-the-wall allure this peek into the war room provides.
In an interview with The Guardian, the real Lara Rashid, whose family left Iraqi Kurdistan in the late 1990s, expressed disappointment both with 22 July and the Norwegian movie U, by Erike Poppe, which was largely fictionalized.
With this premise, Williams collaborated on a film with three co-authors and friends — Amy Gwatkin, Deniz Unal, and Nadja Voorham — to create a fictionalized story wherein this Roman perfume bottle brought their own fantasies to life.
Some of them were dangerous—one of the first pieces Amok Books published was Nazi Josef Goebbels's fictionalized autobiography Michael—but Parfrey and company published it anyway and let their readers decide whether it was worth reading.
As author Joshua Prager discovered, Hoover was meeting with President Truman that day, but this didn't stop author Don DeLillo from featuring Hoover prominently in the fictionalized account of the game that opens his iconic novel Underworld.
Youssef, an Egyptian-American comedian, stars as a fictionalized version of himself, a young Muslim man in New Jersey who takes pride in his cultural and religious beliefs but struggles to balance them with partying and dating.
In the press notes for his first narrative feature, "A Private War," the nonfiction filmmaker Matthew Heineman states that he didn't want to make this gently fictionalized portrait of the war correspondent Marie Colvin into a biopic.
The written accounts Mr. Hinzpeter left behind gave few details about Mr. Kim, and the version that appears in "A Taxi Driver" — played by Song Kang-ho, one of the country's best-known actors — is mostly fictionalized.
What's clear enough, in those opening 20 minutes, is that a lightly fictionalized Chinese-American playwright also named David Henry Hwang (Francis Jue) agrees to write a musical for a prominent Shanghai producer, Xue Xing (Conrad Ricamora).
THE DANISH GIRL (2000)By David Ebershoff In this fictionalized account of the surgical transition of the Danish painter Einar Wegener from man to woman, Ebershoff explores how the events might have affected Wegener's family and life.
Together, these voices create a kind of portrait of an American community — not unlike the one in Edgar Lee Masters's 1915 classic, "Spoon River Anthology," which was set in a fictionalized version of a small Illinois town.
Martin Scorsese&aposs "The Irishman" starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci, among many other legendary actors, is a fictionalized account of Hoffa&aposs disappearance from the point of view of Mafia hitman Frank Sheeran.
This independent film, directed by Markus Rupprecht, who was also one of the authors of the screenplay, is a fictionalized biography of this couple, and a story that might be new to audiences in the United States.
Or were we talking about a more primeval Golden State, John Steinbeck's prelapsarian Salinas Valley from East of Eden, or the 60s netherworld of Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem or luridly fictionalized in Play It as It Lays?
This included what even she considered her best film, 1954's Love Me or Leave Me, a dramatic, though highly fictionalized, biopic of '20s singer Ruth Etting, who lived under the thumb of her short-tempered, controlling husband.
River's Edge is a fictionalized account of a 1981 murder case in Milpitas, California, in which 16-year-old Anthony Jacques Broussard strangled 14-year-old Marcy Conrad and dumped her body near the foothills outside of town.
"I watched that and was just ready to give up, man," he said with a smile, adding that the use of fictionalized scenes got to the truth about Cave with more authority than a traditional documentary would have.
The Plot Against America starts with nearly the same premise as It Can't Happen Here: as Hitler and Mussolini gain power in Europe, America elects a charming racist and anti-Semite, in this case a fictionalized Charles Lindbergh.
Best about theater: "The Last Black Man in San Francisco"Jimmie Fails plays a fictionalized version of himself in the story of a San Franciscan dead set on reclaiming his grandfather's former home in the city's Fillmore District.
His 2000 film The Third Memory, for instance, features the real-life person played by Al Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon, John Wojtowicz, stepping into the actor's role and playing out the fictionalized version of his own life.
SCHUNCK* is simultaneously presenting "Punk+Dans+Kunst: Angry movements," an exhibition that takes as its starting point the 1986 punk ballet film "Hail the New Puritan," a fictionalized documentary about Scottish dancer Michael Clark, directed by Charles Atlas.
The writer, who was beloved by many and poured much time into leading writing workshops and giving speaking engagements, found it difficult to relate to her children, who resented aspects of their lives being fictionalized in L'Engle's stories.
There are plenty of (mostly recent) examples of drugs being aptly fictionalized on TV. Whole series, like Breaking Bad, That 43s Show, Broad City , and The Wire have managed to pull off pretty realistic depictions of substance use.
After he declines her offer to take U4EA (90210's fictionalized version of ecstasy), the drug that "brings new couples closer together," she secretly buys two small packets from a hulking dealer in a leather jacket (of course).
That dizzying feat feels strangely discordant with this newly restored and quietly beautiful film, which offers intimate and lightly fictionalized portraits of Mr. Hockney and his creative friends, filmed in London and New York from 1971 to '73.
The film follows Audrey (a fictionalized version of Bohdanowicz, played by Campbell), who becomes completely absorbed in the real epistolary correspondence between her (Bohdanowicz's) great-grandmother, the poet Zofia Bohdanowiczowa, and the Nobel-Prize-nominated author Józef Wittlin.
But publishers seemed to consider My Dark Vanessa — a similar story, but fictionalized and told by a white woman — to be very saleable, and they had given it the kind of publicity outpouring that would make it inescapable.
Sometimes the scientists set the record straight, as in a fictionalized dialogue between Ms. Slater and Elizabeth Loftus, who contended then and now that the book misrepresented her own work and her statements about the malleability of memory.
But in its framing here — along with the accounts of Gretchen Carlson (Nicole Kidman) and a fictionalized composite named Kayla (Margot Robbie) — as a triumphant David-and-Goliath fable, it's difficult not to notice what Bombshell leaves out.
The spectacularly strange comedy stars comedian Maria Bamford as a (lightly) fictionalized version of herself and chronicles her experiences in navigating an acting career, relationships, and an often debilitating mental illness at three different times in her life.
As widowed mother Shirley and her irrepressible son Keith Partridge, Jones and Cassidy played lightly fictionalized versions of themselves — two entertainers in a family full of them that decides to stick together and seek success as a group.
But as Nick Dyer-Witheford and Greig de Peuter write in Games of Empire: For the engineers of these machines, playing out fictionalized conflicts allowed for an escape from the heavy burden of running life-or-death war simulations.
It's the lightly fictionalized story of horse trainer and rodeo rider Brady Jandreau, who suffered a devastating skull fracture in the ring that makes just the act of getting back up on a horse a life-or-death risk.
Back in July, Deadline announced that Britt Robertson, who portrayed a fictionalized version of Sophia Amoruso on Netflix's since-canceled comedy Girlboss, would be taking over Britne Oldford's leading role of Sandra following the filming of the show's pilot.
Other things (shooting an enemy sniper through a scope) are obviously fictionalized but there's a lot of authenticity in the movie (like the premise of the movie) and a lot to learn from details that I've never noticed before.
From this we can glean that a fictionalized version of The Velvet Underground will be making an appearance in the series, and we can also reveal that the person who plays Reed is the ex-drummer of The Drums.
" Rickman played a fictionalized version of Louis XIV in the movie, and said the lessons the king learned from Sabine were crucial: "Rosebuds bloom and fade, and you should honor the blooming and the fading — both parts of life.
It's tempting to draw a circle around the work to include those photographers that are known for self-invention and constructed, fictionalized dramas, such as Jeff Wall, Cindy Sherman, and Stan Douglas, but Badwan's work has higher immediate stakes.
Initially, I wanted to make a fictionalized film about old-age Alzheimer's and dementia with non-actors and shoot in a functioning aged-care facility (turned out that was going to be extremely difficult when it came to consent!).
This episode of the classic, well-researched web series Yacht Rock provides a good fictionalized summary of how the whole thing worked in the case of Michael Jackson's "Human Nature": Bruno's scenario is a little bit tougher to parse.
Ruth Negga portrays Mildred Loving, and Joel Edgerton is her husband, Richard, in Jeff Nichols's fictionalized account of the interracial couple whose battle for the right to have their marriage recognized in 1950s Virginia went to the Supreme Court.

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