I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor - which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history.
-- Sidney Sheldon
   
Sidney Sheldon   Name:
Sidney Sheldon
Type:
Novelist
Nationality:
American
Birth:
February 11, 1917
Death:
January 30, 2007
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