![]() ![]() She spies actor Richard Kiley in the credits. Actually, his only sin was taking me to a cheap Hollywood restaurant for lunch. Over the stacks of 'Goodbar,' they have a big sign, 'DO NOT SHRED.' I was taken there by this obnoxious paperback salesman named Arnie. "They should put her on the cover of the paperback," Rossner is saying. In "Goodbar," Woody Allen's endearing, foot-in-the-mouth girlfriend in "Annie Hall" plays Theresa Dunn, devoted teacher of deaf children by day, singles-bar devotee by night. Rossner, 42-year-old author of five novels, Bronx-born, brassy, divorced mother of two, waves the glossy program festooned with a langorous Diane Keaton in disco heaven. As screening hour approaches, authors who sing away their creations to Hollywood come to feel like the father in the delivery room: They can't wait to see how things will turn out, but it's too late to make any changes. For courage, she has stashed a bottle of wine under the seat.Ī quarter of a million dollars and piece of the film - the deal her agent cut for movie rights to her novel "Looking for Mr. Judith Rossner burrows deep into her second-row seat and tries to hide. ![]()
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