FoxNews.com reports: “Fear of Flying,” Erica Jong’s sexy novel that blew people’s minds in the early 1970s, may finally be coming to the big screen. The word is that Diane English, best known for “Murphy Brown,” will write and direct. And English wants Maggie Gyllenhaal to play the lead character, Isadora Wing.

Gyllenhaal is a perfect choice based on her unbridled (and unrivaled) performances in “Secretary” and “Sherrybaby.”

Wing, as the book’s many readers know, was out there on the sexual frontier. Jong even invented a term for her that should gain a risky new popularity in this generation: “The zipless” you know what.

The saga of making or not making “Fear of Flying” is one of those Hollywood legends at this point. For years and years, famed producer Julia Phillips (”Taxi Driver,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”), who won an Oscar for “The Sting,” tried to make the movie at Columbia Pictures. Read the rest of this entry »