At 18:44 24-07-02 -0400, you wrote:
>I just picked up Heat Wave by Timothy Harris. It was
recently mentioned
>that it was the novelization of a script Harris
himself wrote, but could
>not sell. However, the cover says it was based on a
screenplay by
>Herschel Weingrod, who was Harris's co-scripter on 8
movies (and the
>copyright is Weingrod's). The cover also says Harris
is the author of
>American Gigolo, which I'm guessing must be the
novelization, since the
>movie was written (and directed) by Paul
Schrader.
>Mark
>
Yes, AMERICAN GIGOLO (1979) was a novelization. There was
another one: STEELYARD BLUES (1972) from Alan Meyerson's
film.
I still could not find HEAT WAVE, the novel among my books.
But I found back an interview Timothy Harris gave in France
in 1983 and reported (in French) by Franį¯Šs Guerif in Polar No
26 at the time. Harris explained the following:
"Interview (translated)
(After a discussion about how he came to write his first
novel'Kronsky/Mc Smash' -1969- a book which he didn't really
believe it could be published, as he himself saw it as a
parody and a satire)
"Q/ You decided to be a writer... TA/ Not really so. I was
asked to write novelizations, like for STEELYARD BLUES, a
film with Jane Fonda, and for HEAT WAVE which was an original
scenario I tried to sell for a friend
" So the confusion was in another other article I found
wherein implicitly I understood the scenario for Heat Wave
was by Harris.
Some abstracts of interest of the same interview:
"Q/ What about American Gigolo? TA/ I was broken and I wanted
to go to London, so I needed the money. I really dislike this
book! In fact, I really didn't like the script in the first
place.
"Q/ Which of your PIs do you like more? Thomas Kyd or
Paradise? TA/Paradise is the most realist.
"Q/ There are some authors you prefer? TA/ None amongst the
crime/mystery authors. What I like in Chandler's work it's
his style, his English culture serving the form of his
writing. I'm more attracted by satirists like Evelyn Waugh or
Joseph Kennedy O'Toole.
"Q/ During the last few years you didn't publish anything TA/
That's because I write scripts. To write books takes too much
of my time, with an unsatisfactory result.
(1983)"
E.Borgers Hard-Boiled Mysteries http://wwww.geocities.com/Athens/6384
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