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  3. Children on Their Birthdays (short story) - Wikipedia

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    As early as 1980, Capote's estranged friend Alan Schwartz asked for permission to sell a television script, which he had adapted with Capote's encouragement. Capote refused, saying he had written a television script himself. [7] In 2002, the short story was adapted to Children on Their Birthdays, an American independent film by director Mark ...

  4. James Agee - Wikipedia

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    James Rufus Agee (/ ˈ eɪ dʒ iː / AY-jee; November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) was an American novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic.In the 1940s, writing for Time, he was one of the most influential film critics in the United States.

  5. Young Sheldon - Wikipedia

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    Young Sheldon is an American coming-of-age sitcom television series created by Chuck Lorre and Steven Molaro that aired on CBS from September 25, 2017, to May 16, 2024. The series is a spin-off prequel to The Big Bang Theory that takes place during the late 1980s and early-to-mid-1990s, and follows child prodigy Sheldon Cooper as he grows up with his family in East Texas.

  6. There Will Come Soft Rains (short story) - Wikipedia

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    The story was first published in 1950 in two different versions in two separate publications, a one-page short story in Collier's magazine and a chapter of the fix-up novel The Martian Chronicles. The author regarded it as "the one story that represents the essence of Ray Bradbury". [ 1 ]

  7. Book censorship in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Instead of saying 'I don’t think children should read this book,' just add a single word: 'I don’t think my children should read this book.'" [132] In the Captain Underpants spin-off book The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby , Pilkey included a "subliminal message" that reads "Think for yourself.

  8. Sarah Ruhl - Wikipedia

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    The two plays are Ruhl's stage adaptions of Anton Chekov short stories. [17] Late: A Cowboy Song was produced by Clubbed Thumb (New York City) in 2003. [18] The Cornerstone Theater Company (Los Angeles) commissioned Ruhl for a play about young people living in Los Angeles. Cornerstone presented the play, Demeter in the City at REDCAT in June 2006.

  9. Efua Sutherland - Wikipedia

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    She was born as Efua Theodora Morgue in Cape Coast, Gold Coast (now Ghana), where she studied teaching at St Monica's Training College in Mampong. [18] [19] She then went to England to continue her education, earning a BA degree at Homerton College, Cambridge University — one of the first African women to study there — and studying linguistics at the School of Oriental and African Studies ...