The Big Sleep (1946 film) E. Jackson were completely eliminated. Because of the two versions created by the re-shooting, there is a substantial difference in content of some twenty minutes between them, although the difference in running time is two minutes. Novelist Raymond Chandler said Martha Vickers (Carmen) overshadowed Lauren Bacall (Vivian) in their scenes together, which led the producers to delete much of Vickers' performance to enhance Bacall's. The re-shot, re-edited and revised "The Big Sleep" was finally released on 23 August 1946. The cinematic release of "The Big Sleep" is regarded as more successful than the 1945 pre-release version (see below), even though
The Glitch in Sleep of humor, seeming to draw a novel from David Wiesner's Sector 7" "The Glitch in Sleep" was nominated for the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, a Vermont children’s choice award. It was also chosen as one on Amazon's Best Books of 2007 along with nine other books and was also named as an Autumn Book Sense Children's pick in 2007. "The Glitch in Sleep" was also in Publishers Weekly "BEA 2007: Fall Titles to Watch" list. Film rights to the first book have been acquired by Twentieth Century Fox, but no release has been yet planned. The movie will be directed