Book Ad of the Week: TOPLESS (1991)

August 16, 1991

Topless

by D. Keith Mano

Random House, 1991

The major motion picture from Carolco never materialized.

Book Ad of the Week: THE SHATTERED SILENCE (1971)

July 22, 1971

The Shattered Silence: The Eli Cohen Affair

by Zwy Aldouby and Jerrold Ballinger

Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1971

The major motion picture -- directed by Daniel Mann (OUR MAN FLINT, BUTTERFIELD 8), from a screenplay by Albert Maltz (TWO MULES FOR SISTER SARA, THE BEGUILED) -- was never produced.

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.