**FILE**Author Pete Hamill responds during an interview at the Skylight Diner in New York in this June 5, 2007 file photo. Hamill's readers started writing him about an upcoming Fox network television show, "New Amsterdam." Its lead character was killed centuries ago ... and brought back to life. Eternal life. Granted immortality, he lives in Manhattan ... Which they said sounded similar to Hamill's best-selling 2002 novel, "Forever."(AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)