Harper Lee's Estate Sues Over Broadway Version of "Mockingbird"

Good.  Here's the full article at the NYT, and here's the bottom-line quote:

In the complaint filed Tuesday in federal court in Alabama, the estate argued that Mr. Sorkin's adaptation deviates too much from the novel, and violates a contract, between Ms. Lee and the producers, which stipulates that the characters and plot must remain faithful to the spirit of the book.

It's about time.  After decades of watching scriptwriters mangle well-regarded works of literature into generic story lines resulting in movies and plays that neither convey the author's original ideas nor actually turn a buck, it is gratifying to see an author's estate go after these hacks.

In other news, I hear that the estate of Robert Heinlein has despatched a crack team of up-armored camel spiders to Paul Verhoeven's last known location, in retribution for the theme-reversal job he did on Starship Troopers.