Word: paperbacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...arbitrarily been ruled out as ever being successor to Cronkite still rankled. His 1977 autobiography The Camera Never Blinks (written with Mickey Herskowitz) amounted to effective lobbying over the heads of the network brass and toward the public at large. The book was a bestseller in both hardback and paperback. Says Rather today: "I suddenly found myself in a very competitive race, not of my making. But if I am in this race, I intend...
Finished reading Judith Krantz's new novel under a rented hair dryer, as you suggested, got a bad case of the frizzies but not the answer to the big question: Why did Bantam Books shell out a record $3.2 million for the paperback rights? That may not be much by Hollywood standards, but in publishing, it is long, long bread any way you slice it. It is enough to give a dollar bill to every man, woman and child in New Zealand, with change left over to pay a major league utility infielder for a year. Put it another...