Looking for Mr. Goodbar (film) in the novel as somewhat of a "Plain Jane". Author Judith Rossner "detested" the film, although she praised Keaton's performance. Rossner added, "I feel like the mother who delivered her 13-year-old daughter to the door of Roman Polanski and didn't know what was going to happen." Robert O. Friedel, MD, has suggested that Theresa's behavior in the film is consistent with a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder. "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" introduced Richard Gere, LeVar Burton and Tom Berenger, all as men whom Theresa encounters. The film also inspired the music video for the 1993 Madonna song "Bad Girl". In
Thank You, Mr. Moto (novel) man who goes out of his way to make sure the Americans remain safe. The historian Michael Schneider observed that Mr. Moto novels show Japanese expansionism in a light that might appeal to many Americans and Mr. Moto as a “moderate” in the spectrum of Japanese politics. Chinese culture is shown as ancient and exotic, but Schneider concludes that it is "difficult to see the novels as doing anything more than buttressing prevailing racial and ethnic stereotypes." The novel was praised for its "vitality and vividness" and "swift action". This novel was used as the basis for the movie "Thank