Three Weeks Before Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, There Was Dorothy Parker's

I will take this opportunity, as I take even more tenuous ones, to pimp Mary McCarthy's review of Pale Fire (my favorite book), which is an act of the creative spirit almost as stunning as Nabokov's original:

http://innerlea.com/aulit/paleFire/notes/mccarthy.html

Hollywood has a lot of stories like this, for recent example this year saw two movies about the White House being taken over by terrorist, Olympus Has Fallen and White House Down.