The Wombat File Is Yours to Keep: The Friday Quiz: Late, Short, and Sweet

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The Friday Quiz: Late, Short, and Sweet

In haste, and as is customary, steeped in apologies:

In 1956 he penned the teleplay for a CBC television film called Flight into Danger, that was adapted first as a theatrical release from Paramount, then as a novel, under a different title (Runway Zero-Eight). Nine years later he had his first breakout into major bestseller-dom with a business-centric novel, set in New Orleans which he said he researched by reading 27 books on the industry in question. That book, in turn spawned a television series, although the setting was changed to San Francisco.

However, it was in 1968 that he published the biggest bestseller of the year. The film adaptation garnered one of its stars the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Who was the author? What was the title of the 1968 bestseller? Who was the actress?

First correct answer posted to comments wins a heaping plate of pasta. No Googling or...look, it's late, so just don't Google. Don't put a lot of guesses into one comment. The usual, y'know?

Posted by BT on August 17, 2007 12:53 PM | Permalink

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The 1968 bestseller was "Ode to Billy Jack."

That's all I got.

Oh, and I can sing "One Tin Soldier" for a bonus.

Posted by: boxjam | August 17, 2007 01:21 PM

Please feel free to sing One Tin Soldier. Or Tin Soldier by the Small Faces.

But nope.

Posted by: BT | August 17, 2007 01:38 PM

Damn, and I thought I was the only one left who knew all the lyrics to that song.

Was it Funny Girl?

Posted by: bootsy3000 | August 17, 2007 01:55 PM

Rosemary's Baby.

Ruth Gordon won best supporting actress.

Posted by: boxjam | August 17, 2007 04:22 PM

The Exorcist.

Posted by: boxjam | August 17, 2007 04:22 PM

Harold and Maude.

Posted by: boxjam | August 17, 2007 04:23 PM

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Posted by: Jonathan | August 17, 2007 04:52 PM

The Towering Inferno

Posted by: Jonathan | August 17, 2007 04:52 PM

The Graduate
Plastics
Anne Bancroft

Posted by: art | August 17, 2007 08:40 PM

wait, you guys have gotten me confused:

Author: Arthur Hailey
Novel: Airport
Best Supporting Actrss: Helen Hayes (I'm not kidding)

Posted by: art | August 17, 2007 08:42 PM

Art gets it all. (I'm not kidding). Should have known the resident cinema expert would get this.

Posted by: BT | August 18, 2007 12:35 AM

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