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“Hacks” and “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” successfully fictionalize such frustrations, as the tribute acknowledges by opening with “Hacks” star Jean Smart’s pre-recorded reflections on the late comedian’s influence.

From Salon ● May 14, 2025

Instead of directly recounting the facts in Bissonnette’s book, Gore and Kulash elected to fictionalize certain aspects.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2023

Moriarty and Jaci supply each other writing prompts, while claiming first dibs on real-life anecdotes they wish to fictionalize.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 2021

Vanessa’s capacity to romanticize, to fictionalize, runs rampant.

From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2020

It was a means by which, if not to erase or delete memory, to splice it, to fictionalize it, and to some degree begin again; and yet he judged consciousness to be even less real.

From An Apostate: Nawin of Thais by Steven (Steven David Justin) Sills

Horton and her sister inspired the 2002 Disney Channel Original Movie “Double Teamed,” a fictionalized account of the twins’ time at Palos Verdes High.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Wunmi Mosaku -- who plays a fictionalized Zuckerberg advisor -- holds similar expectations for the film, which arrives in theaters Friday.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

Weightier than any of that is the ever-more involuted mystery enveloping the real Elizabeth Short, whose murder has inspired fictionalized homages before De Palma’s movie and since, but has yet to be satisfactorily rendered onscreen.

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026

Also, apparently, a fine pitch for a series, with the two men playing fictionalized versions of themselves.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

Mother tells me you have given up on the tribal art book and are pleased with this one, a sort of fictionalized travelogue?

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Her First American,” Segal’s best book, also draws closely from life, but its fictionalizing feels freer and brings out poignant elements of romance and tragicomedy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026

I don’t want to ask you specifically about that, but rather the creative habit of approaching Lincoln’s life stories from an array of directions including fictionalizing him as a vampire slayer.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2024

It also drew a blank when asked for a speech from George Santos, the New York Republican congressman who was caught fictionalizing his past.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 6, 2023

And it’s uncommon for producers to involve the people whose lives they are fictionalizing.

From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2023

The pair decided that Tembi Locke’s story of her marriage to an Italian man, over his mother’s resistance to the American interloper, and its aftermath would benefit from fictionalizing the characters.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 29, 2022