![]() ![]() I think when you see “The World According to Garp,” directed by George Roy Hill, there is a very talented man at the helm, keeping his hand on the tiller and steering it away from sentimentality, or what have you. ![]() Glenn Close as well.Īny John Irving’s stories really have to have the right tone. Well, two of the right actors: Lithgow and Robin Williams were phenomenal in that movie. got the right tone and had the right actor in the middle of it. He says the 1982 film adaptation of Irving’s classic “The World According to Garp,” starring Robin Williams, Glenn Close, and John Lithgow, came the closest to capturing the unique tone of the novel.Ī treat for me is, and has been, reading the works of John Irving - starting with “ The Hotel New Hampshire,” moving through “ The World According to Garp,” and finishing with “ A Prayer for Owen Meany.” ![]() Actor Jon Hamm, star and producer of the Gregory McDonald mystery novel and film franchise reboot “ Confess, Fletch,” is a fan of novelist John Irving. ![]()
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