The guy who ripped me off the most was the late writer/director Richard Brooks. I adapted Jack (Shane) Schaefer’s historical book The Great Endurance Horse Race into a screenplay for Lorimar Productions. Lorimar offered the screenplay to Brooks to direct. He asked to buy it. Lorimar would not sell it. I picked up the LA Times one Sunday to see Brooks announce he was making Bite the Bullet, based on public domain materials. No one, not my agent, not Lorimar, ever called to tell me this had happ
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