This movie ad has its own plot twist
From a Times staff writer
An ad for 20th Century Fox’s new remake of “Flight of the Phoenix” in Friday’s Calendar section featured a quote attributed to The Times: “A twist to die for!” But the review of the film two pages later said no such thing.
So where did the quote come from? It was in an article that ran in the paper Nov. 21, written by J.P. Trevor about his father, Elleston Trevor, who wrote the novel “Flight of the Phoenix,” from which the 1965 film was adapted. His reference to the “twist to die for” was about the book -- and didn’t include an exclamation point.
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