home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- <text id=94TT0169>
- <title>
- Feb. 14, 1994: Died:Pierre Boulle
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Feb. 14, 1994 Are Men Really That Bad?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- MILESTONES, Page 18
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> DIED. PIERRE BOULLE, 81, French novelist; in Paris. An engineer
- who went to work on a rubber plantation in Malaya during the
- late 1930s, Boulle plumbed his World War II experiences in Indochina
- as a resistance fighter and prisoner of war to fill many of
- his moral-philosophical adventure tales with precise, vivid,
- details. The Bridge over the River Kwai (1952), chronicling
- the plight of British pows building a bridge for the Japanese,
- was perhaps the most famous of his 30 or so books; the 1957
- film adaptation, which Boulle wrote, garnered several Academy
- Awards, including Best Picture. The film adaptation of Planet
- of the Apes, Boulle's 1963 science-fiction novel, spawned sequels
- and a TV series as well as the sight of Charlton Heston in a
- loincloth.
- </p>
-
- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
-
-