MOVIES - April 6, 1989

Award-winning Irish writer Christopher Nolan, who cannot walk, talk or control his twitching limbs, has confirmed reports that his life story may be filmed by producer Steven Spielberg. The 22-year-old author, called Ireland’s new James Joyce, hammered out his autobiography “Under the Eye of the Clock” with a “unicorn” stick strapped to his forehead. Nolan’s mother cupped his chin in her hands as he reached laboriously for each letter on a specially adapted typewriter. Last year, his book won Britain’s literary prize, the $35,400 Whitbread Award, and was adapted into a play for the Dublin Theater Festival, telling the story of how Nolan nearly died at birth from asphyxiation.