Wes Phillips

The Graduate—Happily Ever After?

By Wes Phillips • Posted: Apr 19, 2006
What happened to Benjamin and Elaine after they got off the bus? Writer Charles Webb, who based the characters on himself and his wife, can't tell you. He thinks he no longer owns the rights to his own story.
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Submitted by Jeff Wong on April 19, 2006 - 10:58am.

I wonder if Calder Willingham and Buck Henry did significantly better than Webb. This reminds me of the Winston Groom debacle, where he took a percentage of the net and not the gross on Forrest Gump and ended up with practically nothing.

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Submitted by Wes Phillips on April 19, 2006 - 11:34am.

As William Goldman said in The Princess Bride," ""Always take the points!"" I guess he should have been more specific about where you take them from.

Al Marcy's picture
Submitted by Al Marcy on April 19, 2006 - 5:12pm.

Sometimes buses go off a cliff. Life ain't artistic.

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Submitted by Wes Phillips on April 19, 2006 - 6:40pm.

Too true, al. I used to worry everytime I boarded a bus in Peru. The Times

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