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...When he took his screenplay Love Story to Paramount Pictures more than a decade ago, they told him to turn it into a novel while they were making the film. The ruse worked, and for one glorious week, Love Story stood at the top of both the hardcover and paperback bestseller charts and was the number one grossing movie in the country. Not bad for a Harvard man who teaches Latin and Greek literature at Yale...
Innocent Blood is James' so-called breakout novel. Her gloomy detective, Adam Dalgliesh, is absent, and the publishers have billed the book as "a major work of fiction." Commercially their hunch was right: Innocent Blood has been sold to the movies for $350,000, and the paperback rights went for $813,000. If it is not a thriller, neither is the new book a conventional novel; it depends solely on suspense for its sustained pace - and that is all to the good. The sad news is that the author has emphasized her real but riskier talent: writing about...
...fashioned bedroom farce, couldn't manage the frantic pace those works conventionally demand, and then settled for doing their own laid-back thing. The result is a literally offbeat movie that manages to capture the way people who have read one too many (or one too few) paperback sex guides really are talking about - and conducting - the battle of the sexes...
Foreign writers have rumbled across America in buckram and paperback trying to conquer it, to understand it. But Americans themselves now seem to have trouble imagining their country. The terms and arrangements of the American enterprise are changing. The entire American proposition has been built upon the premise of ever expanding opportunity, upon a vision of the future as a territory open-ended and always unfolding, upon ascendant history. "We are the heirs of all time," said Herman Melville. What happens if the future seems to be closing down, to be darkening? If nature, first an enemy to be subdued...
...through his messianic thriller The Second Son when his money ran out. The author went to MGM and two days later had a deal: $325,000 plus 5% of the producer's gross and a role in the film, plus a $200,000 advance from Avon publishers for paperback rights. "If you come to the studio with something written down, they'll pay more," says Sailor. "They know you could take it elsewhere. It's easier for them when you're selling...