Word: crichton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crichton is learning the movie business. Right down to those hard-boiled comments as familiar on film sets as in the operating room. Not that he ever spent much time in surgery. At Harvard, Crichton used a pen more often than a scalpel. Before graduating he had published half a dozen paperback thrillers under the name of John Lange. He also researched Five Patients, his documentary about the workings of a large medical center. In 1968 A Case of Need won the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award. For that book -a swiftly plotted story biased in favor of abortion...
...Case of Need, turned into a movie, is currently touring as The Carey Treatment. So is another Crichton novel, the recently released Dealing, a tale of the collegiate marijuana trade. The original novel, by "Michael Douglas," was actually a hasty collaboration between Crichton and his younger brother Douglas...
Novels, film scripts, and now directing, have naturally proved more profitable than medical practice. The film rights alone for The Terminal Man have brought Crichton $350,000 so far. Success steered him into psychoanalysis and broke up his five-year marriage. Although he walks with the slight stoop of a man concerned with not bumping his head, he seems to like towering over everyone else. On the L.A. party circuit, only the Lakers' Wilt Chamberlain could challenge this distinction. Crichton's tastes run to the sound and costly. He has a Mercedes-Benz sedan to replace a Porsche...
...Clearly, Crichton is an ambitious man. But then he came of a very achievement-oriented family. His father was the busy executive editor of Advertising Age. Growing up in Roslyn, N.Y., Crichton recalls that he and his brother and two sisters had to take music lessons whether they liked them or not. By the time Crichton was 14, he was already 6 ft. 7 in. tall. Before long, the high school basketball coach was whipping star performances out of this less-than-natural athlete. Crichton worked hard, because, as he says facetiously, "I wanted to be kissed by the cheerleaders...
...Crichton's success is in many respects conventional, but one should not count on his doing the normal thing. Even if he does, he will undoubtedly do more of it than anyone else...