You can make book on it: Hollywood is back in love with novels. After a decade or so when movie moguls thought that literacy was hazardous to their fiscal health, theaters are burgeoning with films based on books. Best-selling books: Misery, The Bonfire of the Vanities, Presumed Innocent, The Hunt for Red October. Cult faves: The Grifters, The Sheltering Sky, Mr. Bridge and Mrs. Bridge. Nonfiction too: Wise Guy (become GoodFellas) and Awakenings. Some sizzle at the box office; some fizzle. But when the year's first two runaway hits, The Silence of the Lambs and Sleeping with the Enemy, are close...
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