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...money, and Hollywood is a bottom-line town. That is why box-office receipts are kept track of so closely. When African-American talents such as Loretta Devine, Lela Rochon, director Forest Whitaker and author Terry McMillan become common household names like Madonna, Demi Moore, Ron Howard and Michael Crichton, then Hollywood will, I hope, produce more films that explore African-American life. Yes, ultimately some of these movies will be slick Hollywood trash. But only then will African Americans as a group have arrived--when we can create Hollywood "trash" that affects the bottom line. BRONWYN O. BROCKETT...
They will replace a distinguished quintet of overseers which includes two-time Overseers President Theodore M. Hesburgh, who is president emeritus of the University of Notre Dame; Michael Crichton '64, author of the best-selling book Jurassic Park; and John A. Armstrong '56, a former vice president...
Successful religious novels draw on the same thing that Michael Crichton and Tom Clancy thrive on: relentless plotting, no matter how far-fetched. The king of the genre is Frank Peretti, author of four best sellers. His latest, The Oath (Word; 550 pages; $23.99), which has sold 500,000 copies, is a backwoods potboiler that shoots off volleys of suspense. Dismembered bodies start turning up in a remote valley in the Pacific Northwest (the Northwest is a favorite Evangelical site). The local law blames the killings on a deranged bear, but that's too easy. Better to look...
...HUNDRED YEARS FROM NOW, THE name Michael Crichton will be a trivia answer, and his books will be out of print, worth nothing but regret for the trees felled to make them. Meanwhile, America's true pre-eminent novelist of ideas and scientific conundrums, Don DeLillo, will be taught in university courses, read in classic paperback reprints and celebrated for his genius. Why is the future always smarter than the present? DAN POPE West Hartford, Connecticut...
...their arrival, they encounter, to their amazement, living dinosaurs. The explorers are separated, and after several harrowing incidents just barely manage to escape, leaving the prehistoric beasts behind. Jurassic Park? No. It is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 1912 science-fiction classic The Lost World--coincidentally the title of Crichton's Jurassic Park sequel. While Crichton is a master of weaving the latest technology into his tales, he has no problem reaching into the past for inspiration. STEVEN T. DOYLE Zionsville, Indiana Via E-mail...