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...Anthony Crichton-Stuart, who directs the "old master" paintings department at Christie's, traveled to West Newbury to investigate...
...LEAST 1994 Nuclear Terror for Sale (8/29) 68 1995 Michael Crichton (9/25) 48 1996 Fidelity Investments (9/30) 20 1997 Mir: Crisis in Space (11/3) 12 1998 Tom Wolfe (11/2...
Perhaps that's because the universalist desire to reform all culture, make everyone see in a new way, is dead. What's true of literature is true of all the arts now: there are readers of J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace, there are Michael Crichton's readers, and the twain don't meet. Except, possibly, theoretically in cyberspace. F. Scott Fitzgerald had it right: "Culture follows money." And the money--perhaps even the creative zeal--is now in the new media. A radically reshaped culture is beginning to be created there. We can already begin to see what the generation born...
...tale from the author of Jurassic Park. Here, America's favorite didact is out to learn us a thing or two about quantum mechanics and taking history seriously. His highly educated, lightly characterized academic heroes get their soft hands roughed up battling 14th century knights rather than prehistoric raptors. Crichton has clearly learned from his best-selling history. The rest of us are condemned to repeat...
Rumors of the demise of Michael Ovitz's power in Tinseltown, it appears, are premature. Two weeks ago, speculation abounded--in the pages of this magazine, among others--that the former superagent might be having trouble making deals, because he had not sold the movie rights for MICHAEL CRICHTON'S new novel, Timeline, due out next month. Ovitz put such talk to rest last week when Paramount signed on for the film. It will be directed by a big name to boot: RICHARD DONNER (Lethal Weapons 1, 2, 3 and 4). Folks at Paramount weren't talking, but the film...