Richard Brooks "Bite the Bullet" (1975) was Brooks' return to the western. He based his original screenplay on the endurance horse races popular at the turn of the century. In 1977, he released another controversial film, an adaptation of Judith Rossner's 1975 novel "Looking for Mr. Goodbar." It starred Diane Keaton as a Catholic school teacher who searches for sexual satisfaction in singles bars. Brooks made the film on a tight budget, and its frank treatment of sex and its horrific storyline brought praise and condemnation and sold tickets. He ended his career with "Wrong Is Right" (1982), a satire about the
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