As opposed to the dreadful 1987 feature film - with Louise Fletcher, Victoria Tennant, and Kristy Swanson - it is faithful to the book. Andrews became a phenomenon upon the 1979 release of the gothic incest classic Flowers in the Attic, which has endured as a nostalgia-fueled oddity: Lifetime's TV movie version of it - starring Heather Graham, Ellen Burstyn, Kiernan Shipka, and Mason Dye - premieres Saturday night. Keeping her alive - even if just in spirit - was simply smart business. And though Andrews' death was not a secret (all the major newspapers carried her obituary), in a pre-internet age, it was easy enough to continue publishing books under her name so prolifically that the news of her death might have faded from your memory - if you had happened to hear of it at all. Andrews since shortly after she died from breast cancer in December 1986. Neiderman has been ghostwriting the novels of V.C. "I leaned over to the one who spoke English, and said, 'Can you tell me why she's been staring at me for the last half hour?'" The answer was due to a common mistake: She didn't understand why this hugely successful and beloved female author was, in fact, a 48-year-old man. "After a while it gets a little unnerving," said writer Andrew Neiderman over lunch at a restaurant in Palm Springs, recalling a 1989 meeting with three South Korean publishers, one of whom looked particularly perplexed. Andrews had been dead for years and no one seemed to notice.
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