Review: Hot Stuff
The original story of Hot Stuff was about a sting operation in Washington, D.C., that had been written up in Time Magazine. But the producers got hung up negotiating the rights with the cops, so we...
View ArticleReview: The Stepfather
The story goes like this: John Emil List, born 1935, raised a devout Lutheran, served in WWII, saw combat, spent some time in the military post-war, honorably discharged. In 1971, he was living in a...
View ArticleMr. Westlake and the Fender-Bonder
Dear Jeff, In LIVE AND LET DIE, I am the passenger in the red car in the stunt driving sequence on the FDR Drive in New York. When I saw the movie, back then, I was astonished at how much … Continue...
View ArticleReview: Forever and a Death
Until recently, when he visualized that destruction, the image in Curtis’s mind of the toppling skyscrapers was immediately supplanted by the image of the ancient bastards in Beijing, the shock and the...
View ArticleReview: Forever And A Death, Part 2
She rubbed her eyes. “What’s that you’re reading?” He showed her the cover. “It’s a caper story, called Payback, by an Australian writer named Gary Driver. He’s imitating the Americans, but he’s pretty...
View ArticleWanted for Questioning: Westlake’s Continental Op
It’s always interesting seeing how one novelist approaches transforming another novelist’s work to the screen. So, besides produced films like “The Grifters”, Don’s unproduced screenplay for “Red...
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