1.   Carriere, who has written screenplays for Luis Bunuel and Peter Brook and adapts the works of others, also writes plays.

2.   De Simone recruited young music scholars at the Naples Conservatory to study and adapt the works for modern orchestras.

3.   Hamsun did not care about the difficulty of adapting works like his to film.

4.   He adapted works by Carl Sandburg and Edgar Lee Masters and made the language of the Bible, Shakespeare and Whitman the common currency of his research and writing.

5.   They are instrumental in adapting classic works for the modern stage and in finding and developing new playwriting talent.

6.   When it comes to adapting the works of the Bard for the big screen, Kenneth Branagh seemingly can do no wrong.

7.   In her diary, James deplores the lack of control a writer has when his or her works are adapted for television or film.

8.   Italian director Mauro Bolognini, a prolific filmmaker admired for his skill at adapting works by writers, died Monday after a long illness.

9.   Italian director Mauro Bolognini, a prolific filmmaker admired for his skill at adapting works by writers, has died after a long illness.