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...just after World War I, this novel moves from the labor troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York, to London and Gottingen, Venice and Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia at the time of the mysterious Tunguska Event, Mexico during the Revolution, postwar Paris, silent-era Hollywood, and one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all. With a worldwide disaster looming just a few years ahead, it is a time of unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places. No reference to the present day is intended...
...hands off such hoopla. "We're respecting the author's choice for us to stay apart from these things," says the Penguin rep. "Oh my god, that book will sell itself - there's a built-in audience of his fans," says Charles Day, marketing manager at the popular West Hollywood, California retailer Book Soup. Day expects to trumpet the release with large window displays, staff recommendations, and prominent placement of the hefty volumes near the cash register...
...spotlight of Hollywood will soon shine on the Harvard psychology department...
Scientologists aren’t just in Hollywood anymore...
...Bush and Tony Blair for overreaching their authority on failed quests—particularly the “War on Terror”—these films seem perfectly timed. But the relationship between the political reality and the cinematic representation of leadership uncertainty seems surprisingly elliptical for Hollywood, particularly during the last few years...