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...premise that journalism provides good fodder for movies is not an altogether well-tested one. There have been some notable examples, from Saturday Night Fever and Urban Cowboy to, more recently, Con Air and The Peacemaker. In fact, optioning magazine and newspaper articles has been a growing trend in Hollywood the past few years. Susan Lyne, a former executive editor of Premiere who pursued magazine-based movie projects for Disney and now works for ABC, cites economics: "You're no longer able to buy high-end books for under seven figures, while magazine options for the most part are still...
With tax-cut fever running high, you may be surprised to learn that two popular estate-planning goodies could disappear as early as this fall. For most it won't matter because the $625,000 lifetime exclusion ($1.25 million if married with a bypass trust) and the ability to give as gifts as much as $10,000 per person per year provide adequate shelter from estate-tax rates that can rise to an onerous 55%. But if the bull market has swelled your estate to $1.5 million or more, consider these tax breaks now--before they vanish...
...Come Undone was rediscovered. Even so, his life as a solitary writer was tossed upside down. "When Oprah came tapping at the biosphere door, it was a kick," he says, "but I sort of had to take a hiatus for a couple of months." At the peak of Oprah fever, Lamb was getting about 75 letters a month from readers, and he had to rent a telephone-free office across town in order to finish the new novel...
Have a child with an ear infection? Five days on antibiotics instead of the customary 10 may be all that's needed to clear up uncomplicated cases. A new study that looked at 20 years of data on 3,000 kids concludes that with either regimen, pain and fever usually subside within three days, and the odds of a relapse are about the same...
...Saturday Night Fever makes John Travolta, the Bee Gees and white suits cool...