text: Film adaptations Slim's first novel, Trick Baby, was adapted as an eponymous 1972 movie directed by Larry Yust and produced independently for $600,000, with a cast of unknowns. Universal Pictures acquired the film for $1,000,000 and released it in 1973 to a considerable amount of Iceberg Slim fanfare; the movie grossed $11,000,000 at the US box office. The New York Times praised the film for its depiction of race relations and the friendship between two con men, set "in the grimier reaches of Philadelphia".
  In 2006, independent film producers Dave Mortell and David Harb acquired the film rights to produce a film adaptation of Mama Black Widow. In 2008 Mos Def was contacted to play the character of Papa Tilson alongside Rihanna (in what would have been her acting debut in a feature film at the time), Kerry Washington and Macy Gray.
  In 2009, television executive producer Rob Weiss, of the HBO show Entourage, and Mitch Davis purchased the film rights to produce a screen adaptation of Pimp.
  Personal life
  After his release from prison in 1961, Beck met Betty Shue, who became his common-law wife and the mother of his three daughters (Melody, Misty and Camille) and one son (Leon) while he was working as an insecticide salesman. Shue encouraged Beck to write his life story and helped him write drafts.
  Beck married Diane Millman Beck in 1982.