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----- Original Message -----
From: "Kenny, Glenn" <gkenny@hfmus.com>
To: "'D. Barton Johnson '" <chtodel@cox.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 9:12 PM
Subject: RE: Query: Nabokov on Film
> The Bob Evans/"Ada" connection, or rather lack thereof, has already been
> disseminated and chortled over at length in this forum, but to make the
> story short for Mr. Rabiee's delectation, Evans' eccentric memoir "The Kid
> Stays in the Picture" recounts the young Evans flying to Montreaux on
behalf
> of Paramount, failing to comprehend "Ada" after a nine-hour marathon read
> fueled by amphetamines, passing on buying the movie rights and thus
earning
> the disapprobation of his Paramount colleagues, but then gloating when the
> movie rights to "Ada" were picked up by Columbia, which, Evans notes with
no
> small satisfaction, never produced a film version of the book.
>
> On being apprised of Mr. Evans' account of his encounter with M. and Mme.
> Nabokov, Dimitri Nabokov pithily and hilariously proclaimed Mr. Evans "a
> vulgarian and a fool" in this very forum.
>
>
> GK
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: D. Barton Johnson
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Sent: 9/2/03 9:00 PM
> Subject: Query: Nabokov on Film
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Rabiee" <costanza2000@yahoo.com>
> To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 1:15 PM
> Subject: Nabokov on Film
>
>
> >>
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> > I heard somewhere that there was to be a "Pnin"
> > adaptation starring Peter Sellers. Is there any fact
> > in this? Also, what became of the "Ada" adaptation?
> > I've heard Robert Evans's name attached to it. And one
> > last question...who owns the rights to "Pnin," "Ada,"
> > et al.? Has anyone dared to purchase the film rights
> > to, say, "Pale Fire" or "Transparent Things"? Is there
> > anything in production right now?
> >
> > -Rob Rabiee
From: "Kenny, Glenn" <gkenny@hfmus.com>
To: "'D. Barton Johnson '" <chtodel@cox.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 9:12 PM
Subject: RE: Query: Nabokov on Film
> The Bob Evans/"Ada" connection, or rather lack thereof, has already been
> disseminated and chortled over at length in this forum, but to make the
> story short for Mr. Rabiee's delectation, Evans' eccentric memoir "The Kid
> Stays in the Picture" recounts the young Evans flying to Montreaux on
behalf
> of Paramount, failing to comprehend "Ada" after a nine-hour marathon read
> fueled by amphetamines, passing on buying the movie rights and thus
earning
> the disapprobation of his Paramount colleagues, but then gloating when the
> movie rights to "Ada" were picked up by Columbia, which, Evans notes with
no
> small satisfaction, never produced a film version of the book.
>
> On being apprised of Mr. Evans' account of his encounter with M. and Mme.
> Nabokov, Dimitri Nabokov pithily and hilariously proclaimed Mr. Evans "a
> vulgarian and a fool" in this very forum.
>
>
> GK
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: D. Barton Johnson
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Sent: 9/2/03 9:00 PM
> Subject: Query: Nabokov on Film
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Rabiee" <costanza2000@yahoo.com>
> To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 1:15 PM
> Subject: Nabokov on Film
>
>
> >>
> > ----------------- Message requiring your approval (10
> lines) ------------------
> > I heard somewhere that there was to be a "Pnin"
> > adaptation starring Peter Sellers. Is there any fact
> > in this? Also, what became of the "Ada" adaptation?
> > I've heard Robert Evans's name attached to it. And one
> > last question...who owns the rights to "Pnin," "Ada,"
> > et al.? Has anyone dared to purchase the film rights
> > to, say, "Pale Fire" or "Transparent Things"? Is there
> > anything in production right now?
> >
> > -Rob Rabiee