I remember Richard Headicar giving an excellent talk on Sinclair's novel as part of the 'Novel Approach to History' series of meetings that the SPGB put on a few years back and, as it's 100 years since its publication, it goes without saying that there would be an article in the Socialist Standard to mark its centenary. Here's a sneak preview.
UPDATE
It turns out that Paul Thomas Anderson of 'Boogie Nights' and 'Magnolia' fame is currently in post-production with the film, 'There Will Be Blood', a loose adaptation of Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel Oil! Daniel Day-Lewis is playing the lead, so fingers crossed it's better than the vastly overrated 'Gangs of New York'.
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Gangs of New York - yes, if ever the word over-rated could be tagged onto something, then this is it. Other words like "utter" and "pish" spring to mind also, right enough!!
I remember I was so lloking forward to that film at the time, and it was such a total let down.
It was also the same week that I saw City of God: Now that was a brilliant film.
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