What made "Sammy" stop running and other never-were adaptations.
In what's easily the best thing he's done since, uh, guest star on "Undeclared," Ben Stiller took time out from mugging, shrieking and frittering away his talent to pay affectionate tribute to the late Budd Schulberg, who died August 5th. For the past few years, Stiller's evident frustration with Hollywood has been erupting in odd ways -- spending $90 million on "Tropic Thunder" to prove how much he hates other blockbusters, mocking studios for having the gall to work with him -- so it's not really a surprise that for over a decade, he and screenwriting partner Jerry Stahl sweated and ultimately failed to bring Schulberg's gold-standard indictment of Hollywood to the screen. And Stiller isn't alone in his frustrations with Tinseltown, here are a handful of other long-gestating adaptations that could happen someday, but probably won't. 1. Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, "Good Omens" Pratchett & Gaiman's widely beloved...
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