My Movie Business

John Irving, a former wrestling coach, writes about his novel The Cider House Rules being turned into a movie and his inspiration for the abortionist lead, his colorful grandfather. He is more charitable with the vile money people and creative lunkheads that infest Hollywood than is usual for this type of book -- Monster comes to mind as one that treated them more scathingly -- but maybe Irving simply had a good deal. Director approval and cast approval were his, plus he worked on the script. While My Movie Business encourages me to see the film, it does nothing to entice me to Irving the writer, who was, by his own account, an excellent wrestling coach.