Patterson: Eleven Hollywood Studios Bidding for Movie Rights to Bill Clinton Book

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PATTERSON: "It will hopefully be the best novel about a president ever because we have a president who is writing and collaborating and forcing me to absolutely get it right. We were out in Hollywood last week and we had like 11 companies bidding for the film rights or whatever which was a lot of fun to be there with President Clinton. And I said, you know, I had been with President Clinton a number of times now, but it was one of our sessions that goes four or five hours and all of a sudden — this was a couple of weeks ago up in Chappaqua — it washed over me, 'I'm sitting here talking to Bill Clinton,' you know, for four hours. And the realism and the authenticity in this novel called 'The President Is Missing,' which is right off the bat I'm interested, 'Okay, how did that happen? What happened to the President?' etc."