It's easy to see why E. L. Doctorow's novel "Billy Bathgate" enticed Hollywood. At first glance it seems to have all the right stuff for a blockbuster both popular and prestigious: the legendary ...

Robert Benton`s ”Billy Bathgate” arrives amid a swirl of rumors that have labeled the film an expensive fiasco-a ”Bathgate” that might prove a ”Heaven`s Gate” for its producers at the Walt Disney ...

”Billy Bathgate” begins with darkness and mystery and leaves you there for the rest of the movie. The main mysteries are the plot and climax: There aren`t any! Oh, sure, there`s plenty of guts and ...

E.L. Doctorow, the author of historical fiction whose writing were adapted into feature films including “Billy Bathgate,” “Daniel” and “Ragtime,” has died. He was 84. The Bronx native died on Tuesday ...

Over the past 30 years, E. L. Doctorow has written eight novels for which he has received a number of prestigious awards. While the subject matter of these novels covers a time period of over 100 ...

Touchstone reportedly delayed the release of “Billy Bathgate” because of dissatisfaction with the ending of the film, one that was said to have been “fixed.” What they did was go back to the original ...

Novelist E.L. Doctorow, who died Tuesday from complications of lung cancer, was a quintessentially American storyteller who weaved together history and fiction as he explored and reinterpreted our ...

EL Doctorow, the author of Ragtime and Billy Bathgate, has died aged 84. Doctorow died from complications resulting from lung cancer, his son Richard told the New York Times. He was the author of over ...

With the same confidence that he used in revising history to add Sigmund Freud, Harry Houdini and Henry Ford to the lives of remarkable but unknown people, E.L. Doctorow again takes the screaming ...

William “Billy” Bathgate III, a farmer who helped San Juan Capistrano become a city in 1961 and was its second mayor, has died. He was 76. Bathgate passed away in his San Juan Capistrano home Monday ...

NEW YORK — E.L. Doctorow, a leading figure in contemporary American letters whose popular, critically admired and award-winning novels — including Ragtime, Billy Bathgate and The March — situated ...