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Posted on: Wednesday, May 28, 2003

THE LEFT LANE
Honolulu writer's story on big screen

Advertiser Staff and News Services

KINCAID

Honolulu writer Nanci Kincaid is eagerly awaiting a copy of a new film based on the title story of her collection, "Pretending the Bed is a Raft." The story took a circuitous route to the screen: Screenwriter/director Isabel Coixet of Barcelona, Spain, happened on Kincaid's 1997 story collection in an airport and by the time she landed, had decided to make the story into a movie.

Working with El Deseo, Pedro Almodovar's production company, Coixet rewrote the story to give it a generic American setting (instead of the South) and called the movie "My Life Without Me." "She changed a number of things, but the spirit of story is very much intact," said Kincaid. "Obviously, I love this woman."

Kincaid and her husband, former University of Hawai'i football coach Dick Tomey, traveled to Vancouver, British Columbia, to watch some of the filming. "My Life Without Me," in English with Spanish subtitles, and starring Sarah Polley, opened in Barcelona to raves.

Child's book set in Hawai'i rises to No. 2

A children's book set in Hawai'i was No. 2 on the New York Times children's books best-seller list last week. The book is "High Tide in Hawaii," by Mary Pope Osborne (Random House, paper, $3.99). It's the 28th book in her Magic Tree House series, in which a pair of children named Jack and Annie experience all manner of adventures with the aid of a treehouse that's really a space- and time-travel machine.

In "High Tide in Hawaii," Jack and Annie make friends with two local kids who set out to teach them how to surf — until a tsunami intervenes.

To learn more, take a look at www.marypopeosborne.com or www.randomhouse.com/kids/magictreehouse.

Special Olympics happen this weekend

The opening ceremony for Hawai'i's 35th annual Special Olympics summer games is at 6:30 p.m. Friday at the University of Hawai'i's Les Murakami Stadium.

There'll be a parade of athletes and more than 1,000 law enforcement torch runners accompanying a "flame of hope" with which to light a cauldron, signifying the start of the games.

More than 800 athletes will compete from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sunday.

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