Author Topic: Loren Singer, Author of The Parallax View, Dead at 86  (Read 559 times)

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Loren Singer, Author of The Parallax View, Dead at 86
« on: December 28, 2009, 05:56:29 PM »
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/24/arts/24singer.html?_r=1

from the NYT obit, on Dec. 24.  The film, IMHO, 1000% better than the book, but the essential theme of the book was preserved.  Singer had, as far as I know, nothing to do with the screenplay, but deserves kudos for the concept.

One of the best conspiracy films ever made.  Alan J. Pakula directed, with a great musical score by a composer whose name I can't recall.  Good performances by Warren Beatty, Paula Prentiss and Hume Cronyn.  Chilling ending.  Evokes the early 1970s like no other film I know.

The film that made paranoia respectable. 

R.I.P., Loren Singer.  and Thanks.