On The Soul Train To Stardom
September, 1987
"It's like walking down the street and being hit on the head by a falling brick," says Chicago Lawyer Scott Turow of his recent success. Make that a solid-gold brick, since Turow's first novel, Presumed Innocent, is one of the summer's big books and director Sydney Pollack has bought the movie rights for $1,000,000. Add the hardcover, paperback and foreign-rights deals, and Turow, 38, easily stands to pocket a cool $2,000,000. All this for a 431 -page thriller about a deputy public pro...
