Gregory McDonald, author of the “Fletch” series of books, died yesterday at his home in Tennessee. McDonald started his career as a journalist for the Boston Globe, then went on to fiction, penning the successful mystery series (”Fletch”, “Confess Fletch”, “Fletch’s Fortune”, etc.) which was later turned into a couple of films starring Chevy Chase.
His passing at this time is unfortunate, in the light of the possibility that’s been kicking around for a couple of years now that the “Fletch” movies were getting a re-boot, with Kevin Smith and Zach Braff attached at certain points. If all you know are the Chevy Chase films, you owe it to yourself to give the books a read (they’re quick reads, I don’t think it ever took me more than a day to get through one of them) and hope under your breath for a new film. While Chase was memorable and entertaining as Irwin Fletcher, it wasn’t the Fletch from the books.
His website can be found here, as well as a really good excerpt from “Merely Players” called “The Circle Line Theory of Art”.
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