Few imaginary cities are as well known as Peyton Place, and perhaps only Metropolis and Gotham City can rival it for success in a variety of media. The fictitious New England village has been the setting of two novels, two motion pictures, one prime...

Peyton Place is a 1956 novel by Grace Metalious. Selling sixty thousand copies within the first ten days of its release, it was publishing's second "blockbuster," (following Gone with the Wind in 1936) and remained on the New York Times best seller list...

Byline: BILL MOULAND IN his three years at Brighton College, Derek Charles Wakehurst Peyton failed to make much of an impression. But more than 70 years after he left, he is suddenly the centre of attention at the [pounds sterling]21,000a-year public...

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When moviemakers wanted to film "Peyton Place" in this small seaside town, the best-selling novel the movie was to be based on was so scandalous the local library didn't even keep it on its shelves.The book had sparked outrage with its titillating look behind closed...

Tom Moore, who in the 1960s helped the fledgling ABC Television Network become a competitive rival of CBS and NBC, has died. He was 88.Moore, who also won several Emmy awards as head of his own production company, died Saturday of congestive heart failure in...