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Although it may surprise our readers under the age of 40, there once was a time when the big Hollywood studios fell all over themselves to attract successful novelists and playwrights and turn them into commercial screenwriters. To be a literary lion wasn’t a bad thing as long as your work could be translated at the box office. […]
We hadn’t heard for a while from our Books2Movies maven, Larry Michie, and thus were delighted that he agreed to our proposal to compare the book and movie versions of The Lost Weekend. Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here today to […]
I have just learned that a majority of the people who become abnormal drinkers are superior in intelligence and are almost always introverts. — Dana Andrews, 1951 In this quote from author Carl Rollyson’s new biography, Hollywood Enigma: Dana Andrews, the actor is describing himself in a letter to his beloved and somewhat long-suffering wife, […]