Whipped Cream Difficulties

I nearly missed this one. The only coverage I’ve seen has been on the A/V Club.

William Harrison, novelist and screenwriter, died on Tuesday.

I was unfamiliar with much of Harrison’s work. Apparently, he wrote a lot of novels set in Africa. But perhaps his biggest claim to fame is a short story, “Roller Ball Murder”, which was published in Esquire in 1973.

Norman Jewison hired Harrison to do a screenplay based on the story. The result:

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