Word: bartimaeus
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...directed the animated hit Shrek, a more comic medieval fantasy. Miramax will shortly begin work on a movie version of the best-selling Artemis Fowl books, a hot contender for the post--Harry Potter sweepstakes, and the company paid seven figures for book and film rights to the Bartimaeus trilogy, a series of novels about a jinni and a young magician by British writer Jonathan Stroud. Not to be outdone, Disney reportedly paid nearly $8 million for the film, theme-park and multimedia rights to Clive Barker's fantasy novel Abarat...
...give up. "I believed in him," he says quietly. "There was great work to do out there, and he was pivotally placed." Franklin, "under duress," tried again in 1989 in Juneau, Alaska. He preached one of his father's favorite sermons, the story of the blind man Bartimaeus, whose sight Jesus restored. The revival's first night was successful, White says, but the second was something more: "They packed the place, drunks and divorces and prostitutes. He gave the invitation, and they poured down. It was a miracle, and he knew...
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