Talk:Michael Hastings (playwright)

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Amazed there was no entry on Wikipedia, so kicked off a stub at least. Hope people can improve it.KD Tries Again (talk) 18:24, 28 October 2008 (UTC)KD Tries Again[reply]

Tussy Is Me

Wikipedia forbids original research so I can't add this to the article. Nothing prevents me adding it to the talk page. I'm researching the possibility that Hastings' novel Tussy Is Me may have been a commissioned assignment or even a novelization of an unfilmed script for producer Harry Saltzman. In a 1969 Films & Filming interview Saltzman mentions that he intends to film this project and that David Cregan is writing the script. The book's copyright belongs to "Steven, S.A.", one of Harry Saltzman's many production companies. The Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1971: July-December (p.2372) also says that "Steven, S.A." is an "employer for hire". On several occasions Saltzman commissioned novelizations of several film projects that didn't get made. The U.S. 1971 Delacorte hardcover first edition also says on the copyright page: "First published in England in slightly different form by Weidenfeld and Nicolson." Several reliable sources mistakenly claim that Tussy Is Me was published in 1968: Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television (Vol. 2; 1986; p.136), the 1985 Penguin edition of Hastings' own play Tom and Viv (p.1) and John Parker's Who's Who in the Theatre (1981; p.305). - Fantr (talk) 23:57, 20 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]