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...Internetting or iPodding of movies does take over, that would be a strange revolution indeed. It's one thing to miniaturize phones and radios for easier use. It's another to reduce the 65-ft. movie-palace dream images of old--the ones revived for last week's Oscar show--onto a screen the size of Dick Tracy's wristwatch...
...York. He always wanted to be a writer, but he didn't find it necessary to starve along the way: he had a highly successful career in advertising, including a six-year run as chairman of J. Walter Thompson in North America. But he never gave up on his dream. In 1977 his first novel, The Thomas Berryman Number, won an Edgar Award, the Oscar of the mystery world, although it wasn't a big commercial success. His evolution into James Patterson, The Man Who Only Writes Best Sellers, had yet to to be fulfilled...
...collaborator, Andrew Gross, used to run the sports-equipment company Head, but his dream was to write novels, and he couldn't get any traction with publishers. One day he got a call: Patterson had seen his manuscript and wanted to have breakfast. "Basically what he said was, I've got a lot of stories to tell, and nobody has the resources to tell 'em all, and would I like to talk about a project with him?" That was the beginning of a seven-year partnership, a highly educational one for Gross--he jokes that it's the equivalent...
...witness without objections from opposing counsel. But the government, reluctant to appear to be defending Fastow, sat back and mostly let Jeffrey Skilling's defense attorney, Daniel Petrocelli, have his way. "It?s like fighting a guy with his hands tied behind his back - it?s a lawyer?s dream," said one courtroom observer, former Federal prosecutor Michael Wynne...
...caliber performances of both the long-running Broadway production and the star-studded Rob Marshall film version that many potential audience members have seen. This task presented difficulties from the very beginning, when a Harvard production of “Chicago” was little more than a pipe dream. Instead of merely buying performance rights for the show, as is normal procedure for most existing musicals, Hanley actually spoke with the producers of the current Broadway run of “Chicago” about acquiring the rights to perform it. Getting the rights to perform...