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Kidnapping saga to become a movie.
Two movie adaptations of the kidnapping case of former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt are in the works, one based on Betancourt’s own account and another from the point of view of her ex-husband.
American producer Kathleen Kennedy has confirmed that she’s acquired the rights to Betancourt’s book, “Even Silence Has An End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle.” The book details the time she spent in captivity from the time she was captured by the leftist rebel group FARC until her rescue in 2008.
Kennedy, the producer behind “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” and “Seabiscuit,” is planning a feature film adaptation of the book.
Betancourt was freed in a daring resuce carried out by the Colombian armed forces.
Venezuelan-American director Betty Kaplan has acquired rights to two books Lecompte wrote about his wife’s captivity and his search for her — “In Search of Ingrid” and “Ingrid y Yo: A Sweet and Sour Freedom.”
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First Lines
“Child’s Play,” one of the entries in “Selected Stories,” by William Trevor
Gerard and Rebecca became brother and sister after a turmoil of distress. Each had witnessed it from a different point of view, Gerard in one house, Rebecca in another. Two years of passionate quarrelling, arguing and agreeing, of beginning again, of failure and reconciliation, of final insults and rejection, constituted the peepshow they viewed.
There were no other children of the two wrecked marriages, and when the final period of acrimonious wrangling came to an end there was an unexpected accord to the division of the families. This, it was decided, would be more satisfactorily decreed by the principals involved than by the divorce courts. Gerard’s father, innocent in what had occurred, agreed that Gerard should live with his mother since that was convenient. Rebecca’s mother, innocent also, declared herself unfit to raise the child of a marriage she had come to loathe, and declared as well that she could not bring herself to go on living in the house of the marriage. She claimed that suicidal tendencies had developed in her, aggravated by the familiar surroundings: she would suffer the loss of her child for her child’s sake. “She’s trying all this on,” the other woman insisted, but in the end it appeared she wasn’t, and so the arrangement was made.
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