Looking for Mr. Goodbar
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- This article is about the novel; for the 1977 film, see Looking for Mr. Goodbar (film)Looking for Mr. Goodbar (film)Looking for Mr. Goodbar is a 1977 film written for the screen and directed by Richard Brooks and starring Diane Keaton, Tuesday Weld, Richard Gere, and also features Tom Berenger...
Looking for Mr. Goodbar is a 1975 novel by Judith Rossner
Judith Rossner
Judith Perelman Rossner was an American novelist, best known for her 1975 novel Looking for Mr. Goodbar, which was inspired by the murder of Roseann Quinn and examined the underside of the seventies sexual liberation movement. Though Looking for Mr. Goodbar remained Rossner's best known and best...
. Rossner based the novel on the events surrounding the brutal murder of Roseann Quinn
Roseann Quinn
Roseann Quinn was an American schoolteacher whose murder inspired Judith Rossner's 1975 novelLooking for Mr. Goodbar, as well as its 1977 film adaptation directed by Richard Brooks...
, a 28-year-old New York City
New York City
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schoolteacher in 1973.