Word: woolrich
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...Cornell Woolrich, the famous mystery writer, received a fan letter from his old Columbia University professor Mark Van Doren, complimenting him on the movie adapted from his novel ?Black Angel.? Woolrich replied that he?d seen the film in a Manhattan theater and added, ?I was so ashamed when I came out of there. All I could keep thinking of in the dark was: Is that what I wasted my whole life...
...Twenty years later, just before his death in 1968, Woolrich remembered one thing about ?Rear Window,? the most famous movie made from his fiction (which his agent had sold to Hollywood, along with five other stories, for a measly $5,000). ?Hitchcock wouldn?t even send me a ticket to the premiere in New York,? the writer told his young agent, Barry Malzberg. ?He knew where I lived. He wouldn?t even send me a ticket...
...Woolrich knew he was trading power for solvency when he sold his work to other media. In many years, film, radio and later TV versions of his work brought in the bulk of his income. In the 1940s he wrote 11 novels; Hollywood filmed eight of them within three years of their publication. True, Woolrich was not consulted when screenwriters gave his plots different endings (?No Man of Her Own?), different murderers (?Black Angel?). Authors rarely were then. Shakespeare and the Bible got rewritten with the same blithe abandon...
...fact is that Woolrich?s rep rests largely on the movies, good or bad, made from his fiction. Here, then is a festival of Woolrich films spanning seven decades and five countries. Most of the movies are available for purchase online, or can be rented from netflix.com. I found all but two in three Manhattan video stores (World of Video, Kim?s and, for the Indian film, Naghma House). A Woolrich starter set would comprise ?Phantom Lady,? ?The Window,? ?No Man of Her Own,? ?Rear Window,? ?The Bride Wore Black,? ?Kati Patang,? ?Martha? and ?Original...
When the venerable outdoor-clothing maker Woolrich began selling online three years ago, it moved more of its signature red-and-black buffalo-plaid woolen hunting gear than ever before. Today its website is its fastest-growing sales channel, gaining rapidly on sales through catalogs and stores. But the firm, based in Woolrich, Pa., has stopped taking orders from abroad. Overseas online orders proved "nonprofitable," says Bruce Heggenstaller, vice president of operations and distribution. "We experienced credit-card fraud, mail fraud and hidden shipping and duty fees...