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...ending up a hack. Not exactly the same as being caught after dark in a pet cemetery, but chilling enough to make King, 54, decide to stop publishing at year's end. As he revealed to the Los Angeles Times, his greatest "nightmare" is "finish[ing] up like Harold Robbins," the novelist who churned out books into his 80s. King said he worries about repeating himself, which seems inevitable, since he's published at least a book a year since 1974. He plans to finish the last three novels in his "Dark Tower" series and this fall publish From...
...DIED. HAROLD RUSSELL, 88, actor-by-fluke and World War II vet who lost both hands during the war and later won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 1946 for The Best Years of Our Lives; in Needham, Mass. Russell, who had never acted before director William Wyler noticed him in an educational film for disabled soldiers, spent most of the rest of his life working for veterans' organizations...
...Fairweather Muslim Harold B. Mackey ’05, who once prayed to Mecca, ate a hot dog and drank a beer on the first day of Ramadan, decided to go vegetarian this semester. “I just want to cleanse my body and mind,” Mackey said. After the first day of class, he smoked an entire eighth of an ounce of marijuana, ate three plates of boneless spareribs from the Kong and passed out in a pool of pork juices. “Allah doesn’t really see everything, right...
...Harry is doomed to repeat himself. The temptations--harder drugs, indiscreet women--are infinite, while his future occupation is a yawning void: if not a polo-playing, ribbon-cutting, organic farmer like his dad, what will he become? The younger siblings in royal families "are almost always neglected," says Harold Brooks-Baker, publishing director of Burke's Peerage. "Instead of going to pubs on the holidays, he should be meeting heads of state, learning the ropes. He needs training to take the throne if he's called on, and to earn his own living if he wishes...
...mainly comes up when there’s a situation between people, or when there’s some kind of small conflict about something—then I would think about how my dad would handle this. And on this movie, with great directors like Garry Marshall and Harold Ramis on the set, you’re always in student mode. You hope you never stop being in student mode, and you gotta ask those questions, especially when you’re surrounded by great comedy directors...