![]() $250,000 for the rights.Īnd in the spring of 1979 filming of “Rubyfruit Jungle” is scheduled to begin under the direction of Joan Jewkesbury, screenwriter of Robert Altman's “Nashville.” No star has yet been signed to play the book's spirited heroine, Molly Bolt, but Miss Brown, who was the co‐author of the script with Arnold Reisman, said she hoped it would be Lily Tomlin. No major publisher would touch it at the time.Įarlier this month, a major paperback house, Bantam Books, began distributing 250,000 copies of the book after paying Miss Brown and Daughters Inc. The book became an underground phenomenon and sold 70,000 copies after it was published in 1973 by a small Manhattan women's collective, Daughters Inc. ![]() And a political activist, and a poet, as well as the author the humorous autobiographical novel, “Rubyfruit Jungle,” about a woman who grew up homosexual and enjoyed it. She has a short, flippy hair style, smiling brown eyes, a girlish, Southern drawl, and the kind of high voltage energy that reminds you of a varsity cheerleader. If feminists hadn't banished such adjectives as peppy, perky and pert from the language, those words could be used aptly today to describe Rita Mae Brown. ![]()
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