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...thrust of a Jurassic Park sequel seems simple enough: get the dinosaurs off the island to run rampant in a big city, a la King Kong and Godzilla. But Michael Crichton's follow-up to his best-selling novel was less a continuation of the original than a rewrite. It provided just two notions that excited Spielberg: the existence of a secret island where the DNA dinos had been created, and a set piece where a T. rex tries pushing a trailer off a cliff after its babies are threatened by scientists...
...online, at a Website a fan set up for her. The meeting of Webheads and her story of a time-traveling British army nurse seems to be happy. Drums of Autumn, the latest in the Outlander series, is a surprise best seller, beating out such literary veterans as Michael Crichton and Jonathan Kellerman in some stores...
...indicator to date that Hollywood and Silicon Valley's marriage of convenience might turn into true love after all. "We are all, like it or not, surfers on that growing [high-tech] wave," CAA president Richard Lovett told a crowd of bold-faced names like Jennifer Aniston and Michael Crichton. "Some of you in this room are already old pros...but there are many of us who are afraid of getting our feet...
...When an accident occurs on a Norton jet, it's her job to figure out what went wrong, aided by a gruff, profane but lovable band of engineers. She is up against corporate intriguers, angry union members and Jennifer Malone, a young, cynical producer for Newsline, a TV newsmagazine. Crichton has done a lot of research into the construction and testing of aircraft, and the detail on this subject is the most impressive part of the book. He plays fair with the mystery; the characters adequately fulfill their roles of heroes and creeps; you want to know what happens...
...Crichton sometimes has morals to his stories, and here there are two: that aircraft are ingenious and safe, and that TV journalists aren't after the real truth, just great visuals--but these pearls don't get in the way. The only real problem is that the stakes are so low. How much do we care that an aircraft company may be the subject of a damning news story...