Ira Levin 'The Exorcist,' 'The Omen.' A whole generation has been exposed, has more belief in Satan. I don't believe in Satan. And I feel that the strong fundamentalism we have would not be as strong if there hadn't been so many of these books [...] Of course, I didn't send back any of the royalty checks." Other Levin novels that were made into films included "The Boys from Brazil" in 1978, and "The Stepford Wives" in 1975 and again in 2004. In the 1990s, Levin wrote two more bestselling novels: "Sliver" (1991) which became a film in 1993 by Phillip Noyce,
Bernard Levin with "Truth's" support of the Anglo-French military action in the Suez Crisis. The proprietor and editor of the long-established weekly "The Spectator", Ian Gilmour, invited Levin to join his staff. Levin left "Truth" and became the political correspondent of "The Spectator". He declared that he was no expert in politics, but Gilmour advised him, "review it as you would review television". Levin wrote his column under the pseudonym "Taper", from the name of a corrupt political insider in Disraeli's 1844 novel "Coningsby". He followed Gilmour's advice, becoming, as "The Guardian"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Simon Hoggart said, "the father of the modern parliamentary sketch":