Ardel Wray inspired by the life of the notorious English pirate Edward Teach and set to star Boris Karloff. Remarried and living in Hollywood, Wray left RKO shortly before she gave birth to her daughter in May 1945. Her last produced screenplay for Lewton, "Isle of the Dead", was released in September of that year, a few days after Japan surrendered, ending WWII. Lewton's films had played a major role in returning RKO to profitability during WWII but, when the war ended, audiences lost interest in horror movies. When Bedlam lost money, RKO did not renew Lewton's contract and his group disbanded.
What to Expect When No One's Expecting for "The New York Review of Books". Elizabeth Kolbert discussed the book along with many others in an article for "The New Yorker" about population. Last wrote a response to Kolbert's review, and Daniel Halper concurred with Last's assessment of the review, claiming that Kolbert "gets it completely wrong." A "New York Times" article in April 2013 listed Last's book as one of many that was raising a "false alarm" about declining US fertility. What to Expect When No One's Expecting What to Expect When No One's Expecting: America's Coming Demographic Disaster is a book by the "Weekly Standard" columnist