![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But the one that really showed how big these films could be was The Notebook, making teens swoon since 2004 (Gena Rowlands and James Garner both die). That was followed by A Walk to Remember in 2002, where Shane West's bad boy falls for Mandy Moore's cancer-stricken teen (she dies). The first Sparks adaptation was Message in a Bottle in 1999, with Kevin Costner and Robin Wright as the couple united when a journalist finds his letters in a bottle to his dead wife (he dies at the end). A former pharmaceutical salesman from Omaha, Nebraska, Sparks has sold a reported 97 million books worldwide, and the films based on them have, so far, have grossed a total not far short of $US1 billion. Nicholas Sparks is more than just a bestselling author of sappy romantic fiction he's a pop culture phenomenon. ![]()
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