She is also confirmed to star in Carol, an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt, set to shoot in February 2013 in London and New York.

* Tom Ripley is involved in an artwork forgery scheme in several of Patricia Highsmith's crime novels, most notably Ripley Under Ground ( 1970 ), in which he is confronted by a collector who correctly suspects that the paintings sold by Tom are forgeries.

Roger Ebert gave Purple Noon three stars ( compared to the four-star review he gave to the 1999 version of The Talented Mr. Ripley ), writing that " the best thing about the film is the way the plot devises a way for Ripley to create a perfect cover-up ," but criticized the " less than satisfactory ending ," feeling that " Purple Noon ends as it does only because Clement doesn't have Highsmith's iron nerve.

The result, while arguably truer to the events of Highsmith's book, is vastly inferior.

* Patricia Highsmith's This Sweet Sickness ( 1961 ) follows on his way to self-destruction a young murderer who is also driven by the prospect of gaining a beautiful lady in the end.

Apart from moving the novel's scenery from the US to France and adapting many character names to the French language, the film also changes the tone: While Highsmith's book is very serious in tone, Chabrol's direction gives the story an additional ironic touch.

Matt Damon, who starred in the 1999 film adaptation of Highsmith's novel The Talented Mr. Ripley, expressed interest in writing " a really strict adaptation " of This Sweet Sickness but no further adaptation has yet been produced.

Recent examples include Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley ( originally published in 1955 ), Ira Levin's Sliver ( 1991 ), with the cover photograph depicting a steamy sex scene between Sharon Stone and William Baldwin straight from the 1993 movie, and, again, Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho ( 1991 ).

With treatment in hand, Hitchcock shopped for a screenwriter ; he wanted a " name " writer to lend some prestige to the screenplay, but was turned down by eight writers, including John Steinbeck and Thornton Wilder, all of whom thought the story too tawdry and were put off by Highsmith's first-timer status.

Patricia Highsmith's opinion of the film varied over time.

He co-starred with Dennis Hopper in Wenders ' The American Friend, an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel Ripley's Game.

Highsmith's suite of novels has also been dubbed " some sort of extended metaphor about capitalism.

When this well dries up, he murders a wealthy young man and assumes his identity, in a manner similar to Patricia Highsmith's Tom Ripley.

( It should be noted that Hughes ' novel predates Highsmith's and may have influenced it.

As with Rope, there was a homosexual subtext to the two men's relationship, although it was toned down from Patricia Highsmith's original novel.

" Berardinelli placed Purple Noon on his All-Time 100 list, and compared it to the 1999 film: " The remake went back to the source material, Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley.

Highsmith's opinion of the film was mixed: she felt that Alain Delon was " excellent " in the role of Tom Ripley, and described the film overall as " very beautiful to the eye and interesting for the intellect.

`` Now that Bruno Walter is virtually in retirement and my dear friend Dimitri Mitropoulos is no longer with us, I am probably the only one -- with the possible exception of Leonard Bernstein -- who has this special affinity for and champions the works of Bruckner and Mahler ''.

A notorious recent example is Fragments ( 1995 ) by ' Binjamin Wilkomirski '( Bruno Grosjean ).

* 1936 – Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.

Saint Bruno of Querfurt ( c. 974 – February 14, 1009 ), also known as Brun and Boniface, is a sainted missionary bishop and martyr, who was beheaded near the border of Kievan Rus and Lithuania while trying to spread Christianity in Eastern Europe.

Cuba's present foreign minister is Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla.

The Dominican Order is headed by the Master of the Order, who is currently Father Bruno Cadoré.

* 1600 – The philosopher Giordano Bruno is burned alive, for heresy, at Campo de ' Fiori in Rome.

* Brian " Thommo " Thompson ( Bruno Lawrence ) is the executive producer during series 1.

The same has been said of Ancient Greek society, a culture where, in Bruno Snell's words, if " honour is destroyed the moral existence of the loser collapses.

is: Giordano Bruno

* 1178 – Five Canterbury monks see what is possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed.

Italian monk Giordano Bruno, burned at the stake in 1600 for heresy, is considered by some to be a pantheist.

The current Vice-President is Bruno Bertagna.

After returning to the Federal Republic of Germany, he made The Rats ( Die Ratten ) which went on to win the Golden Berlin Bear at the 1955 Berlin Film Festival, and The Devil Came at Night ( Nachts, wenn der Teufel kam, 1957 ) which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and is based on the true story of Bruno Lüdke.

Most of the Peninsula is occupied by San Mateo County, between San Francisco and Santa Clara counties, and including the cities and towns of Atherton, Belmont, Brisbane, Burlingame, Colma, Daly City, East Palo Alto, El Granada, Foster City, Hillsborough, La Honda, Menlo Park, Millbrae, Montara, Pacifica, Pescadero, Portola Valley, Redwood City, San Bruno, San Carlos, San Gregorio, San Mateo, South San Francisco, and Woodside.

The county is home to several endangered species including the San Francisco garter snake, the Mission blue butterfly and the San Bruno elfin butterfly, all of which are endemic to San Mateo County.

* 1934 – Bruno Hauptmann is arrested for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr ..

The test that Bruno and Buffalmacco submit Calandrino to was really a medieval lie detector test and the tale is consistent with what we know about the characters of the three painters.

Master Simone, at the instance of Bruno and Buffalmacco and Nello, makes Calandrino believe that he is pregnant.

Calandrino being enamoured of a damsel, Bruno gives him a scroll, averring that, if he but touch her therewith, she will go with him: he is found with her by his wife, who subjects him to a most severe and vexatious examination.

** Mafioso Angelo Bruno is murdered in Philadelphia.

* April 3 – Bruno Richard Hauptmann, convicted of kidnapping and killing Charles Lindbergh III, is executed in New Jersey.

* February 13 – Bruno Richard Hauptmann is convicted and sentenced to death for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr.

It stars Lon Chaney, Jr. as Bruno, the chauffeur and caretaker of three orphaned siblings who suffer from " Merrye Syndrome ", which causes them to mentally, socially, and physically regress backwards down the evolutionary ladder starting in early puberty.