After 64 years, murdered film director William Desmond Taylor (the case was written up in last week's Calendar) is very much alive--in development deals.
Author Sidney Kirkpatrick said Paramount has taken a six-figure option on his book about the unsolved murder, "A Cast of Killers," with Robert Towne and Kirkpatrick scripting. (As a neat irony, the book suggests that Paramount was involved in a cover-up after the murder.)
