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However, Lord tells PEOPLE that Christmas in the Spotlight is a loving homage to the couple, not an exact retelling of their love story's fairytale beginning.
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Sabienna Bowman, People.com, 21 Nov. 2024
Adapted for television by Phoebe Fisher and Sara Goodman, this 21st-century retelling is a battle of wills between two volatile stepsiblings: the conniving and cross-wearing Caroline Merteuil (Sarah Catherine Hook) and the manipulative Lucien Belmont (Zac Burgess).
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 20 Nov. 2024
Paramount+ Bram Stoker’s Dracula Year: 1992 Runtime: 2h 7m
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola’s epic retelling of the classic novel is one of the most lavish and ambitious Hollywood productions of its era.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2024
This book is not only a retelling of the crime—a story that Till’s family, among others, has already published—but also a rich and wandering history of the township in which Till died: the few square miles of plantations that helped birth both the blues and the Ku Klux Klan.
—The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
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Sabienna Bowman, People.com, 21 Nov. 2024
Adapted for television by Phoebe Fisher and Sara Goodman, this 21st-century retelling is a battle of wills between two volatile stepsiblings: the conniving and cross-wearing Caroline Merteuil (Sarah Catherine Hook) and the manipulative Lucien Belmont (Zac Burgess).
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 20 Nov. 2024
Paramount+ Bram Stoker’s Dracula Year: 1992 Runtime: 2h 7m
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola’s epic retelling of the classic novel is one of the most lavish and ambitious Hollywood productions of its era.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2024
This book is not only a retelling of the crime—a story that Till’s family, among others, has already published—but also a rich and wandering history of the township in which Till died: the few square miles of plantations that helped birth both the blues and the Ku Klux Klan.
—The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
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“Retelling.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/retelling. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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