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A Book Too Far? It's a story of greed, kinky sex, and corporate intrigue, but the best-selling expose Hit & Run: How Jon Peters and Peter Guber Took Sony for a Ride in Hollywood may be too salacious and too close to home to turn into a movie. Even HBO, which has honed hits from Barbarians at the Gate and The Late Shift, denies interest in the book. But that won't stop industry wags from their favorite parlor game: casting the hypothetical movie. Coauthor Kim Masters says she can picture Alec Baldwin and Steve Guttenberg as the partners from hell. Peters allegedly sees himself as John Travolta and his erstwhile partner as John Malkovich. Still, though Sony had no comment, it's unlikely that the struggling studio will option the book. It's already seen that picture.
And You Are... To byline or not to byline? That was the only question left after Anonymous revealed his true Colors as Newsweek columnist Joe Klein. According to Random House president and publisher Harold Evans, Anonymous stays. So much for the 1.2 million or so owners of Primary Colors who were hoping they had a collector's edition. Meanwhile, Warner Books' paperback version, due in stores this October, will not feature Klein's name either, even though Warner Books chairman Laurence Kirshbaum requested it (the scribe refused). Thus far Klein is keeping mum about the casting of Mike Nichols' upcoming film, but Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson are reportedly in the running.
