Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer a disclaimer, disassociating itself from Rossner's novel and subsequent film. Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer is a television film starring George Segal, Shelley Hack and Tracy Pollan. It first aired on October 15, 1983, on the CBS television network. Produced by Sonny Grosso and Larry Jacobson, the film was directed by Bill Persky. The film follows the investigation into the 1973 rape and murder of a young Manhattan school teacher. The film appropriates the title of Judith Rossner's acclaimed best-selling novel "Looking for Mr. Goodbar", published in 1975 and filmed in 1977. Mistakenly referred to
Jason Starr was hailed as one of the best crime novels of the year by Barnes and Noble.com and Bookreporter.com. That same year, Vintage Books published a collection of stories and essays on horse racing called "Bloodlines: A Horse Racing Anthology", which Starr co-edited with Maggie Estep. In 2007, Starr's thriller "The Follower", called "this generation's Looking for Mr. Goodbar" by the New York Post, was first published by St. Martin's Press and Orion Books. TV/Film rights for The Follower were purchased by Lionsgate with Bret Easton Ells attached as writer. Also in 2007, Hard Case Crime published "Slide", a second novel