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"... so I don't think it's a subject that would be treated objectively. It's a runaway, underground, counter-culture kind of thing - that's why it hasn't been done," said Charles Webb, quoted in "What happened next? (the author will let you know after he dies)," a 2005 article in The Guardian, which I'm reading this morning after blogging the NYT obituary for Charles Webb yesterday.

Webb, the author of the novel "The Graduate," signed away the rights to the characters in his story when he sold the movie rights, and the characters were based on himself and his wife. Webb did write a book about their later life, called "Home School." I was able to purchase this book at Amazon by paying a hefty shipping charge to have it sent from the UK. The 2005 Guardian article says that Webb didn't want the book published until after his death, because he had long ago signed a contract that would allow a film to be made without his consent.

'It would be devastating to publish the book and then be a bystander and watch a mediocre movie made of this story,' Webb, 65, told The Observer. 'I guess I was naive to think it was an obvious thing we would all agree on.'...

Home School owes its inspiration to Webb and his partner's decision to take their own children out of school and teach them at home, an illegal act which left them on the run from the US authorities and seeking refuge by running nudist camps.

It is this unorthodox subject matter which causes Webb to fear that a film version would wreck the integrity of his creation....

'As soon as any sequel is published it is their property and I have no legal recourse. It's frustrating. I hoped something could be worked out with the company: I didn't want to control the film but I did want some basic say over the story. I hoped they'd let me do the screenplay and my younger son be an adviser, because he is the real thing in terms of being home schooled. This wasn't a suggestion they were willing to accept. So I'd rather not be around to see it if not even minimal control is possible.'

While the impasse continues the 130-page novella will remain locked inside Webb's laptop and on floppy disks - no hard copy exists - until bequeathed to his sons, John, 40, and 36-year-old David.... 'I guess posthumously it could be done. Who knows? The children will face the same problem. They can publish the book but the company can go ahead and make a bad movie. I won't know anything about it.'

Ron Halpern of Canal Plus in Paris [the current owner of the rights] was unavailable for comment, but Larry Turman, producer of The Graduate, who bought the original rights 40 years ago, believed Webb was being unnecessarily pessimistic in assuming he would be frozen out of a new film. 'I don't think that would happen at all,' he said from Los Angeles.

Larry Turman, if he had any decency at all, would have given Webb the rights to his characters. Obviously, Webb wasn't the sort of person who would get his own lawyers and wheel and deal with a Hollywood big shot to get some role that was something less than being entirely frozen out. Imagine going all your life seeing the world so interested in the characters who are you and your wife, having great writing talent, and not being able to tell your own story. They already got the original book cheap — "Webb sold the film and theatrical rights for The Graduate for £14,000 and missed out on any share of the 1967 movie's £60 million gross" — and they put an additional, grasping clause in the contract that really hurt this author they supposedly valued and they distorted his entire life. And Turman acts bemused that Webb would be unnecessarily pessimistic. In his world, which was so fascinatingly idiosyncratic, Webb was necessarily pessimistic.

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