Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...motion two years ago, when the idea for Holocaust occurred to NBC Programmer Irwin Segelstein. The project was assigned to Titus Productions, headed by Berger and his partner Herbert Brodkin (The Defenders, The Missiles of October). Titus' main asset was Writer Gerald Green, 56, best known for his novel The Last Angry Man. Long absorbed by the plight of Jews during the war, Green had already written two books on the subject...
There is at least one sign that Holocaust may do better than NBC executives expect. Earlier this month, Bantam brought out Green's paperback novelization of his shooting script, expecting the book to take off after the show went on the air. Much to the publisher's surprise, the novel hit a nerve with the public from the moment it appeared on the racks. Holocaust has already gone through eight printings (1.25 million copies) and is climbing on best seller lists. Not even Alex Haley's Roots had so wide a circulation before the airing...
...mostly for Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. He now turns out screeds under his own name, which is German for nut tree, as well as Alberto Avellano and A.F. Oreshnik, which have similar meanings in, respectively, Spanish and Russian. E. Richard Johnson is another con, whose fine first novel, Silver Street, won a Mystery Writers of America Edgar award in 1968. Johnson, alas, is back in the slammer: a slight case of armed robbery...
...Perelman, humorist, on the feminist novel: "The ladies all seem intent on trying to outdo Fanny Hill...
Irving Wallace, whose wife, son and daughter are also published authors: "The housekeeper is writing a book, and now my secretary is working on a novel...