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...world conquered, and precocious undergraduates from Sydney to San Francisco at his feet, the postmodernist master dismisses the foreign adulation with a tired hand, and finds himself returning to the world of his parents and his birth. Despite the title - and a cameo appearance by Colonel Sanders of KFC fame - 2002's Kafka on the Shore was Murakami's most overtly Japanese novel yet, delving into the florid mysteries of Shinto. He continues his homeward orientation in After Dark, a slip of a novella that explores a single night in and around Tokyo's sleepless Shinjuku district...
...weeks ago, he was spending more of his time in places like Florida and California, which have moved their primaries forward onto the heels of the early contests. Giuliani seemed to be calculating that he would have a better go of it in big states, where his 9/11 fame - which has made him the front-runner in all the national polls - would give him an edge over the rest of the field, and where more diverse groups of voters might forgive his liberal stance on social issues like abortion and gay rights...
...other kind of reality show,” Kirschner says. “I think his decision was because he cares about his career and he cares about reaching an audience…I don’t think he’s somebody who enjoys fame for its own sake...
...starring Claire Danes, Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert De Niro. Beowulf, written by Gaiman and directed by Robert Zemeckis, is coming in November. Next year Dakota Fanning will star in Coraline, based on Gaiman's children's book. Is he about to cross over from the weird world of cult fame to the equally weird but more lucrative world of actual, real-world, mainstream fame? "Oh, God," says Gaiman. "I hope...
...commotion surrounding the movie brought with it the chance for fame for some Harvard students...