Bernie Rhodenbarr in Other Media
The second novel in the series, The Burglar In The Closet, was subsequently adapted into the film Burglar, in which Bernie - a white male - was portrayed by Whoopi Goldberg (renamed "Bernice"), although Bruce Willis had originally been offered the role. Block was displeased by the adaptation (he describes watching an in-flight movie, with no sound, and not recognising it as being based on his novel until the credits rolled), and has written the subsequent novels in such a way as to render them unfilmable. In a special movie tie-in edition of the novel, Block added a short intro in which Bernie explained that he has a cousin named Bernice who is also a thief, giving a whimsical "in-continuity" explanation of the changes to the character.
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