Book Ad of the Week: MOVE! (1968)

May 26, 1968

Move!

by Joel Lieber

David McKay Company, 1968

Joel Lieber co-wrote the screenplay for MOVE (1970), the adaptation of his novel Move!, directed by Stuart Rosenberg and starring Elliott Gould, Paula Prentiss, Genevieve Waite, John Larch, Joe Silver, and Ron O'Neal.

Book Ad of the Week: CABAL (1979)

April 1, 1979

Cabal

by Norman Garbo

W.W. Norton & Company, 1978

The major motion picture based on Norman Garbo's thriller Cabal was never produced, although his next novel, Spy, became a 1989 television movie starring Bruce Greenwood and Jameson Parker.

Book Ad of the Week: WE ONLY KILL EACH OTHER (1968)

February 27, 1968

We Only Kill Each Other

by Dean Jennings

Prentice-Hall, 1968

Dean Jennings' non-fiction book We Only Kill Each Other was never turned into a major motion picture starring Tony Curtis as Bugsy Siegel. However, it is credited as a "research source" for Barry Levinson's film BUGSY (1991), written by James Toback and starring Warren Beatty as Bugsy Siegel. A movie tie-in edition of Jennings' book, with a photo of Beatty and Annette Bening on the cover, was published in the U.K. by Penguin in 1992.

Book Ad of the Week: AFTER (1973)

July 30, 1973

After

by Robert Anderson

Random House, 1973

Best known for his plays TEA AND SYMPATHY and I NEVER SANG FOR MY FATHER and the film adaptations of both, Robert Anderson wrote the screenplays for UNTIL THEY SAIL (1957) and THE SAND PEBBLES (1966) and was Oscar-nominated twice -- for THE NUN'S STORY (1959) and the screen adaptation of I NEVER SANG FOR MY FATHER (1970) -- but the major Paramount motion picture of his novel After was never produced.

Book Ad of the Week: THE TONGUES OF ANGELS (1990)

June 6, 1990

The Tongues of Angels
by Reynolds Price
Atheneum, 1990

The Tongues of Angels, written by the late novelist, poet, dramatist, essayist, lyricist and Duke University professor Reynolds Price, has yet to be adapted for the screen.

Book Ad of the Week: THE SILVER BEARS (1974)

August 22, 1974

The Silver Bears

by Paul E. Erdman

Charles E. Scribner & Sons, 1974

For the 1978 film adaptation of Paul Erdman's novel The Silver Bears, a strong international cast was assembled: Michael Caine, Cybill Shepherd, Louis Jourdan, Stéphane Audran, David Warner, Tom Smothers, Martin Balsam, Jay Leno, Charles Gray, and Joss Ackland. Scripted by Erdman and Peter Stone, it was directed by Ivan Passer and released by American International Pictures.

Book Ad of the Week: THE ORDWAYS (1965)

June 25, 1965

The Ordways

by William Humphrey

Alfred A. Knopf, 1964

William Humphrey's debut novel, Home from the Hill, became the 1960 Vincente Minnelli movie of the same title starring Robert Mitchum, Eleanor Parker, George Peppard and George Hamilton, but his sophomore work, The Ordways, was never adapted for the screen.