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...sale makes Bertelsmann, based in Gutersloh, Germany, the leader in American publishing. It's just more evidence that in a world of global-media companies, assets don't care what address they call home. Bertelsmann, known for its hands-off reputation with its other U.S. publishing division, Bantam Doubleday Dell (BDD), will maintain the Random House name and keep the editorial operation independent. But the new two-volume division will get much greater leverage with agents, authors and booksellers...
...other legal news: The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday left intact a ruling that John Grisham's novel "The Chamber" did not infringe on a nonfiction work written by serial killer Ted Bundy's last lawyer, Polly Nelson. She had sued Grisham and Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, alleging the novel was too similar to her copyrighted book "Defending the Devil: My Story as Ted Bundy's Last Lawyer." A U.S. district court dismissed the case before it went to trial after an "exhaustive examination of both books" showed them to be substantially dissimilar. The decision was affirmed...
Director Nick Cassavetes is less a full-fledged auteur here than a cheerleader and referee, keeping the stars fighting without biting. Wright, like Maureen, is game for any outsize challenge, but her bantam desperation sounds shrill; at times she is overrun by the wild gestures that seize Maureen. Travolta, though, balances nicely on a seesaw of caring and exasperation; and Penn has every garish shade of Eddie in his palette. He gets the pain, charm and drive, the stumbling humor of a guy whose only religion is the woman who betrayed him. He turns a jerk into a heroic figure...
FORT WORTH, Texas: Ben Hogan, the golfer made of stone, died Friday at 84. Some called him "Bantam Ben," because he stood a slight 5-foot-8. Some called him "The Hawk" for the way he analyzed a course. But the Scots called him "The Wee Ice Mon." Because he was Ben Hogan. Hogan was the game's third-winningest player with 63 tour victories. He won nine major championships, four U.S. Open titles, the career Grand Slam and was the only person to win three Grand Slam events in a single season. But the Hogan Mystique was truly born...
...also expect the movie to be a hit, and to solidify Lawrence's rep as a multimedia comedy star: Richard Pryor, the next generation. Lawrence has Pryor's bantam pugnacity, but he lacks the underdog charm, the skewed genius for mimicry and acerb social humor. He has got the Pryor attitude but not the aptitude. And maybe there can be another difference: Lawrence must keep from setting himself and his career on fire...