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Could this Wonka prequel lead to a new adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? Director Paul King seems to have other ideas instead.

  No other national leader was so intimate with both Churchill and Roosevelt. Indeed, King arguably knew them both better than they knew each other. No one else had such a privileged view of the evolution and workings of their relationship. . . . Few were so perceptive about them and none left so detailed an account [in his diary] of their circumstances, policy, and interactions. In addition to closely observing the two individuals, King, as the leader of a country vital to their interests...

Take Chip Lambert, the struggling writer in Jonathan Franzen’s novel The Corrections. Having lost his teaching job at a liberal arts college after a wild weekend of sex and drugs with a student, Chip moves to New York, acquires a leather wardrobe, pierces his ears, and gets to work on a revenge screenplay. Endlessly “grooming the corpse of a dramatically dead monologue,” even Chip knows the screenplay is a dog—but he nonetheless manages to convince himself that it’s his ticket to fam...