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...bitter strike of Hollywood screenwriters, partly over the studios' insistence that the writers accept a rollback of the rerun payments called residuals. Studio executives were saying writers had to make some sacrifices in the leaner economic conditions the industry was facing. Then, in an article in the New Yorker, Joan Didion pointed out that the total received in residuals by all 9,000 members of the Writers Guild was $58 million and that Eisner's 1987 compensation was an estimated $63 million...
...said McCartney, "and I'm gratefully receiving it on behalf of the people of Liverpool and the other Beatles, without whom it wouldn't have been possible." McCartney wasn't the only celebrity honored. Now, it's Lord Lloyd Webber, who can sit in the House of Lords, and Joan Collins, O.B.E.--honored for her acting, not her literature...
...Robert Jordan 4. Rabbi’s Cat Joann Sfar 5. The March E.L. Doctorow 6. Slow Man J.M. Coetzee 7. Third Brother Nick McDonnell 8. Gilead Mailynne Robinson 9. Acme Novelty Library, Vol. 17 Chris Ware 10. Anansi Boys Neil Gaiman Hardcover Nonfiction 1. Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion 2. Jesus and Yahweh Harold Bloom 3. Maimonides Sherwin B. Naland 4. Beyond Reason Robert Fisher 5. 1491 Charles Mann 6. Freakonomics Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner 7. Little History of the World E.H. Gombrich 8. The World Is Flat Thomas Friedman 9. Bait and Switch Barbara Ehrenreich...
...Kennedy School chose Grove and Wei, both of whom applied for the ABC internship through the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy...
...Joan Didion will speak with Christopher Lydon regarding her new book, “The Year of Magical Thinking,” at 6:30 p.m. today at the First Parish Church. Tickets cost $3 and can be purchased at the Harvard Book Store or by calling (617) 661-1515.For anyone who wonders whether an account of a year of personal tragedy and grief can be anything more than a chronicle of catharsis that happened to get published, Joan Didion’s new book “The Year of Magical Thinking” answers with a resounding?...