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We just watched Funny Farm with Chevy Chase again. It's a movie that always makes us laugh.
But this time I noticed all the weird book publishing inconsistencies.
Chevy Chase is a sports writer, and he and his wife decide to leave the rat race to buy a house in the country in upstate New York so he can follow his dream and write his novel.
The first weird thing is that he's already been given a $10,000 advance to write the book. All he has at that point was an idea for a book: four poker buddies who knock over a casino. How did he get an advance based on that? He was a sports writer, not a previously published novelist, as far as we knew.
Secondly, his wife writes a children's book longhand and sends to to "one of the addresses in the back of Chevy Chase's magazines." It comes back typed and with a check for $5,000 and an offer for publication. Plus, they wanted to know what she had next.
Who in the world did she send it to? I've never heard of anything like that before. Sounds like a great publishing house, to accept a handwritten manuscript from an unknown author.
Other than those parts, I love the movie.
allen
But this time I noticed all the weird book publishing inconsistencies.
Chevy Chase is a sports writer, and he and his wife decide to leave the rat race to buy a house in the country in upstate New York so he can follow his dream and write his novel.
The first weird thing is that he's already been given a $10,000 advance to write the book. All he has at that point was an idea for a book: four poker buddies who knock over a casino. How did he get an advance based on that? He was a sports writer, not a previously published novelist, as far as we knew.
Secondly, his wife writes a children's book longhand and sends to to "one of the addresses in the back of Chevy Chase's magazines." It comes back typed and with a check for $5,000 and an offer for publication. Plus, they wanted to know what she had next.
Who in the world did she send it to? I've never heard of anything like that before. Sounds like a great publishing house, to accept a handwritten manuscript from an unknown author.
Other than those parts, I love the movie.
allen