![]() and Steve Tisch bid for it with Wendy Finerman shepherding the deal. ![]() to Paramount?Īnswer: When the book was in galley proofs, Warner Bros. ![]() Question: How did “Forrest Gump” get from Warner Bros. “My wife and I,” he says of his Gumpian experiences, “are still trying to figure out what just hit us.” The former Washington Star writer has seven books to his credit his first, the 1978 Vietnam novel “Better Times Than These,” was followed by the nonfiction “Conversations With the Enemy” with Duncan Spencer. There will never be a ‘Forest Gump 5 or 6,’ ” he says. ![]() Groom and his wife, Anne Clinton, have headed to a retreat in the North Carolina mountains where, with his new tape recorder (“the best one I could buy, the kind detectives use”) he’s working on a sequel, taking Gump and his son from the late ‘80s to the present. There’s Groom’s next book, a nonfiction history, “Shrouds of Glory,” an accounting of the last big Confederate army campaign in the Civil War to attack Chicago.Īnd now he is about to do something about his unlikely hero, Forrest Gump. * An audio version of the book read by Groom has been brought out and three of his earlier novels will be reissued by Pocket Books. ![]()
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