Ira Levin, the original writer of Rosemary’s Baby, The Stepford Wives and The Boys From Brazil, has passed on. Levin’s book of Rosemary’s Baby was engrossing, quietly chilling and well-crafted but Roman Polanski’s film was somewhat better. And yet Levin’s books of The Stepford Wives and The Boys From Brazil were much, much better than the films. Not great literature and not trash, but crafty, well-shaped reads that were definitely a cut or two above “airport fiction.”

November 13, 2007by Jeffrey Wells13 Comments