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Article: Scituate author unleashes praise for adaptation.(Arts and Lifestyle)
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- The Boston Herald
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- July 27, 2005
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Byline: SEAN L. McCARTHY
Romantic comedies are so by the book.
In the case of "Must Love Dogs," however, the film starring Diane Lane and John Cusack strays significantly from the bestseller by Scituate author Claire Cook.
Cook couldn't be happier.
"It's great," the 50-year-old said yesterday from her South Shore home. "How lucky am I? Every single novelist I know would be thrilled to be having this experience."
Cook said she and director Gary David Goldberg, who wrote the adapted screenplay, "became writer buddies very early" in the process. He shared various drafts of the script. She visited the set twice and watched the ...