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...could possibly mistake him for a role model. Yet Sammy became just that for many a brash entrepreneur in Hollywood and on Wall Street. Schulberg later said he was pained that Glick, reputedly based on writer-producer Jerry Wald, had become a template for go-getter corporate America. The novel did not endear Schulberg to Mayer, who told B.P. that Budd should be deported. "He's a U.S. citizen," B.P. supposedly answered. "Where the hell are you gonna deport him? Catalina Island?" Sammy remains one of the few popular Hollywood novels never to have been turned into a Hollywood movie...
...statement, the Recording Industry Association of America, a national trade group that organized litigation against peer-to-peer file-sharing from 2003 to 2008, lauded the outcome of the trial as a "recognition of the impact of illegal downloading" on the music industry...
...feels-god-do-it approach enshrined by young boomers subsequently enabled the risk-taking, party-hearty paradigm that has governed so much of American life, economically and otherwise, for the last quarter century. Now in the twilight of their hegemony, with this crisis and the necessary reshaping of America, the boomers have their last best shot at helping to straighten out the mess they helped make. In their empty-nested years, for instance, perhaps they can channel some of the vast energies and micromanagement they lavished on their children to pro-social enterprises and volunteer work...
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...journalists a sign of North Korea's "humanitarian and peace-loving policy." And at 5.50 a.m. pacific time (8.50 a.m. ET) Wednesday, their plane touched down at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank outside Los Angeles. (See pictures of Euna Lee and Laura Ling's return to America after Bill Clinton's rescue mission...