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...little higher each week. It wasn't a gigantic phenomenon overnight - I think people think that now, but it wasn't." Lori Joffs, a stay-at-home mom in Nashville, read it three months later. Like Meyer, she's a Mormon, but she'd put off starting the book because she didn't think a Mormon writer could do vampires. "I read all night, closed the book, took a deep breath and opened it back up to reread several chapters," she says. Joffs went looking online for other people who felt the same way, but she didn't find many...
...Summit gave Hardwicke 48 days and $37 million to make Twilight. That's not a lot, especially in retrospect, but nobody knew whether the book's popularity would translate into box-office success. "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, that was successful," Hardwicke says, "but it made $30 million with this kind of fan base." That led to some improvising. In the book, the crucial scene between Bella and Edward in the school parking lot happens on a snow day, but snow is expensive. "So the snow became the rain. And then I had to cut the rain out and show...
...CNBC during that period often moved the market. He's well aware of the animosity. "They don't like the fact that I called them on the carpet," he told me. "I mean, you are not going to see a lot of Wall Street guys hanging out at my book party...
...their life savings in now worthless company stock, cleared out. Though Wall Street, with government intervention, survived, Gasparino has plenty of finger-pointing to offer. He argues, for instance, that the SEC should be disbanded because of "the false sense of security it provides." Then again, after reading this book, you're not likely to be that susceptible anymore...
...Alberses and Moholy-Nagy would also end up as hugely influential teachers and practitioners. The Bauhaus was gone, but its gospel would go on. Decades later, Tom Wolfe would call his lightheartedly reactionary takedown of modernism From Bauhaus to Our House. No matter what you think of the book, you can't say he didn't get the title right...