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...Wasserman, who was my agent then, told me, "Tony, you're going to have to work three pictures a year for ten years. At the end of ten years, you should be a star all around the world." He was absolutely right. I just worked, worked, worked. Today, there are no such animals. I don't know anybody who's putting together a career like that. I made 150 movies of every conceivable kind...
...book and was sitting beside him at the table, the win was especially sweet. The White Tiger was the first book he bought for Atlantic, which hired him in 2006 after he was fired from a job at Random House. The novel was shown to him by Adiga's agent, who insisted that he read it that night and make an almost instant decision about whether to bid for it. "I sat down with the manuscript and after the first six pages I was just so excited," Mirchandani said. "When you're reading a first novel, you're often thinking...
...Angels reliever Donnie Moore to give Boston a 6-5 lead. The Red Sox won that game, and the next two, to take the pennant. Tragically, Moore never got over that one pitch to Henderson. He committed suicide in 1989. "That home run killed him," said his agent...
...proved in Black Hawk Down that he knows how to detonate suspense in the bazaar of political ideas. More important, Body of Lies is based on David Ignatius' best seller, which casts Ferris as a good-guy hero, firmly in the spy-novel tradition, and makes him the agent of a devious plot that could just about save the world...
With tales of Putin's machismo flooding Russian media, the former KGB agent, TIME Person of the Year and - to be fair - judo black belt is a few steps away from becoming a post-Soviet Chuck Norris: all he lacks is a beard and a website. "Who needs bodyguards when you're this good at self-defense?" asks this Russia Today reporter, which is a quite ridiculous thing to say since the ability to flip people isn't at all going to stop an assassin's bullet. The real question begged by these clips from Let's Learn Judo with...