Evening Class (novel) an undisclosed sum, when her publisher contacted the producers of the movie, Lars von Trier's company Zentropa. Although the film's writer-director Lone Scherfig had told the press that the film was based on her idea, executive producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen later admitted that she had made him aware of the similarities but that he had simply decided not to pay the original author. Evening Class (novel) Evening Class is a novel by Maeve Binchy. It was adapted as the award-winning film "Italian for Beginners" (2000) by writer-director Lone Scherfig, who failed to formally acknowledge the source, although at the very
The Man Who Studied Yoga quit. After missing a publishing opportunity with a "lady's magazine", Mailer conceived of an eight-novel series based on the dreams of "a small frustrated man". This series would include Sergius O'Shaugnessy, the roguish protagonist of "The Deer Park" and "The Time of Her Time", and other characters with shifting names travelling through time and "through many worlds, through pleasure, business, communism, church, working class, crime, homosexuality and mysticism". While Mailer deserted the overly-ambitious eight-novel idea, he wrote the first draft of "The Deer Park" and the 29-page abandoned prologue to it became "The Man Who Studied Yoga". Mailer credits his