> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 12:54:53 -0800
> From: Kevin Burton Smith <
kvnsmith@thrillingdetective.com>
> Subject: Crawling from the Wreckage
>
>
> fred wrote:
>
> > "THIS SEASON, the TV drama "Lost" will make pop
culture history when it
> > becomes the first show ever to have a character
write a book in the
> > real
> > world."
>
> And Mark pointed out (once again beating me to the
punch):
>
> > That's crap, that this is the first time.
Wasn't Lawrence Block's
> > Markham novel originally credited to the
titular TV character? I also
> > seem to remember seeing some Jessica Fletcher
novels in stores.
>
> Yeah, and I'm sure there's others. But hey, most
people that write PR
> are about twelve (writing for eleven year olds), so
you have to forgive
> them for not knowing anything that happened more
than two TV seasons
> ago.
>
> > Any idea who therea author is?
>
> Hmmm... Max Allan Collins and Stuart Kaminsky have
CSI series going
> (and Kaminsky did a few ROCKFORD FILE novels), Lee
Goldberg is doing
> MONK and DIAGNOSIS MURDER.
>
> I wonder who's next. James Crumley doing VERONICA
MARS?
>
> Kevin
The writing of books based on TV series is a long and
honorable tradition. What I think the deal is with LOST is
something a ittle different. A few episodes back the doctor
and the hot girl discovered a copy of some real book in a
bunker on the island and the sales of the book spiked in
this, the so-called real world. So, publishing being what it
is today, the idea is that a LOST character will be writing a
book in the series that will actually be published. I'm not
sure how that is going to be justified, storywise, since, as
we all know, nobody's getting off that island to submit any
manuscripts. Still, I wouldn't be all that surprised if the
book becomes an Oprah pick.
>
> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 23:58:46 -0800
> From: "Jim Beaver" <
jumblejim@prodigy.net>
> Subject: James Crumley's Western
>
> The episode we're currently shooting is directed by
Tim Hunter (RIVER'S
> EDGE, TEX). He told me that he'd spent the summer
shooting a low-budget
> Western, financed entirely by the three actresses
who play the leads, sort
> of a throwback to the Randolph Scott-type picture of
the Fifties. He said
> it had a good story but a lousy script and so he
talked his old friend James
> Crumley into doing a page-one rewrite. He said this
is the first time
> anyone's ever gotten script material out of
Crumley.
>
Crumley and I shared an agent a while back and from her
office I snagged a script he'd written based on Dancing Bear.
It's packed away under about 1000 lbs of my own unproduced
scripts, but I could almost swear that Tim Hunter was the
co-writer.
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