Over at the Hollywood Reporter, Randee Dawn revisits an film industry journalism evergreen: novelists coping with the lack of input in movies based on their books. Except, of course, for authors like Tom Perrotta who have close relationships with production companies and thus wind up co-writing screenplays to films like Little Children. “A savvy author tends to know when to step aside and let the filmmakers take charge,” says Dawn, which is an easy enough segue to the article by Boris Kit about this year’s nominees for the Scripter Award, presented annually by the USC libraries to the best achievement in English-language adaptation of literature into film. The slate for 2006? Children of Men, The Devil Wears Prada, The Illusionist, The Last King of Scotland, and Notes on a Scandal. One rather feels The Prestige was robbed, but such is life…