The amazing adventures of Michael Chabon

[Dave Monroe]

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 9:17 PM, JD <wescac at gmail.com> wrote:

> Has anyone read Yiddish Policeman's Union?  I keep almost
> picking it up, and then never do.

Whatever happens at the Oscars, Scott Rudin cannot lose. At the
Academy Awards and the Baftas before them, the producer of this year's
two most critically successful movies - There Will Be Blood and No
Country for Old Men - will stuff his pockets with acceptance
speeches....

[...]

He has already started working on the next Coen brothers film, an
adaptation of The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon....

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic/story/0,,2253970,00.html

For their next collaboration, the "No Country for Old Men" team of
Joel and Ethan Coen and producer Scott Rudin will transfer another
Pulitzer Prize-winning author's work into a film.

Columbia Pictures has acquired screen rights to the bestselling
Michael Chabon novel "The Yiddish Policemen's Union," with the Coens
writing, directing and producing with Rudin....

http://www.variety.com/VR1117980719.html