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...YORK: Continuing the conglomeration of all things media, German giant Bertelsmann AG snapped up America's largest publishing house Monday. Random House, which hires such pen-pushers as Michael Crichton, Norman Mailer and John Updike, was sold for an undisclosed sum. The big news for web users is that Bertelsmann, the world's third-largest media company (behind Time Warner and Disney), is in the midst of creating BooksOnline, a rival to Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble -- which will be a lot more comfortable with Random House's back catalog...
...scientific team assembled by writers Stephen Hauser and Paul Attanasio, adapting an old Michael Crichton novel, is ragtag and cranky. The chief credential of its psychologist (Dustin Hoffman) is a report on how to handle alien encounters, which he admits cribbing largely from sci-fi tales. The biochemist (Sharon Stone) is a pill popper. The mathematician (Samuel L. Jackson) is a cynic, the astrophysicist (Liev Schreiber) is twittily lusting after a Nobel Prize, and the team leader (Peter Coyote) needs to try a little tenderness. In short, the possibilities for amusing dysfunction are potentially larger than we usually find...
Bill Gates could buy her on a whim. So, for that matter, could Steven Spielberg, Michael Crichton or Madonna. She would make a terrific conversation piece--one of the biggest and most complete fossil skeletons of Tyrannosaurus rex ever found. She's called Sue, and she's for sale to the highest bidder...
Cecil B. DeMille would have fun with this epic. Naturally Charlton Heston plays Coach Murphy. Michael Crichton '64 (MD '69) would write the screenplay...
...collaboration, Steven went off and did his own movie. When Michael turned the book over to Steven, he knew his work was finished." The author was never consulted about the sequel, nor was he sent a script until he held back approval of certain merchandising rights. But Crichton now sounds sanguine about the process. "When I write," he says, "I have to have the book be exactly the way I want it to be, and that's that. The movie will be exactly the way the director wants it to be. And that's that...