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...Edwin Drood, remains unfinished; readers will never know what happened to its vanished main character. For a while, a mini-cottage industry arose around posthumous books by Ernest Hemingway - bullfighting tome The Dangerous Summer, Parisian memoir A Moveable Feast and novels Islands in the Stream and The Garden of Eden. Papa Hemingway's pal F. Scott Fitzergald's The Last Tycoon hit bookstores about a year after his death, while a seemingly endless list of Middle Earth tales, starting with The Silmarillion have been apportioned out over the past thirty years by J.R.R. Tolkien's son and literary executor, Christopher...
...Leonard Rosenman, 83, was writing chamber music when a young actor named James Dean helped him get jobs writing the scores for East of Eden and Rebel Without a Cause. He won Oscars in consecutive years for Barry Lyndon and Bound for Glory. Rosenman's themes for movies (Fantastic Voyage) and TV (Combat!) were more hummable than dramatic. It was just the opposite for the theme that Alexander Courage wrote for the original Star Trek series, or the jaunty whistling jingle that Earle Hagen composed for The Andy Griffith Show. (In a more serious, romantic vein, Hagen wrote Harlem Nocturne...
...Rowland, a native of Eden Prairie, Minn., played for a strong high school team at Hopkins High and is looking forward to being a part of another winning program. But while the Crimson was picked as the top team in the league in the media preseason poll, Rowland and the rest of the squad are not allowing the lofty expectations to burden them...
...nursery is a false Eden, because class inequalities are already at work. According to a 2007 report by the nonprofit Sutton Trust, cognitive test scores of bright 3-year-olds from the poorest British households drop around 30% by the time the children reach age 5. As kids grow, so does the education gap. The chances for smart-but-poor Britons to reach top universities are slim. A 2006 study for the Bonn-based Institute for the Study of Labor found that Britain had the lowest social mobility of the 12 developed countries surveyed...
...talk show host said Franzen "was not even a blip on the radar screen of my life," although by 2003, she switched from picking contemporary books to classic titles, including John Steinbeck's East of Eden and Gabriel Garcí]a Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. Winfrey's picks boosted sales: Penguin ordered 800,000 more copies of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina after the 19th-Century Russian novel got the nod. But much of the publishing industry was dismayed at missing the chance to hitch their latest books - and their profits - to Oprah's train...