Adaptations are a funny thing. In 1976, author Manuel Puig published the novel Kiss of the Spider Woman, which he then adapted into a stage play in 1983. 1985 saw the release of the film adaptation, ...

Though she plays its vampy femme fatale, Jennifer Lopez is constantly receding from “Kiss of the Spider Woman.” The latest incarnation of Manuel Puig’s 1976 novel places its two prison cellmates — ...