Success Story

Diane Yeager, an ambitious reporter, is attracted to bestselling author John Bradley Jr., who writes a novel about a week the two spent together (for which he paid her $50,000). Nearing completion of the work, he sends her the manuscript and asks her to give it a happy ending by marrying him. PW noted that there are ""some tender scenes,'' but that they ``don't compensate for the gimmick that underlies the tale.'' (May)