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...bulky boxed set went to No. 1 in 1971, propelled by such hits as My Sweet Lord and What Is Life. Harrison had found a new spiritual mentor, Srila Prabhupada of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, and Hindu sentiments and sounds permeate the record, further spurring sitar sales and causing many listeners to investigate Eastern religions. In the early aftermath of the Beatles demise, Harrison, the revelation, rivaled Lennon or McCartney as a pop icon, and Shankar realized his friend might be the perfect front man for a good cause. In August 1971, Harrison and friends Dylan, Starr, Leon...
...with the Traveling Wilburys, a supergroup that included Dylan, Tom Petty and others. But various legal battles took up even more of his time. In 1976 he had to pay $587,000 for "subconsciously plagiarizing" the old Chiffons hit He's So Fine in his melody for My Sweet Lord. In 1991, he brought a seven-figure defamation-of-character suit when the tabloid the Globe published a story calling him a "Big Nazi Fan." And in 1996 he won an $11.6 million judgment against his former business partner in HandMade films, Denis O'Brien, for not assuming his agreed...
...movie,'" meaning a book that kids have first experienced on the screen. The Harry Potter movie has led to a bump in reading of the already popular Harry Potter books, which has led young readers to C.S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia) and Tolkien. "We can't keep Lord of the Rings on the shelf," Kunzel says. Tolkien purists who can't bear to see images of Middle-earth put on the screen should take some comfort in the fact that the paperback version of the trilogy is flying off the shelves. The first volume, The Fellowship of the Ring...
...Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring December 19 No introduction is required for this giant-budget production of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epochal first installment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. New Line Cinema and director Peter Jackson took a huge gamble when they decided to film all three books back-to-back over a grueling 18 months of production, with a rumored $300 million budget and a juicy Christmas release for the films over a period of three years. With no major stars (does anyone remember Elijah Wood?) and a premise that is decidedly...
...RING-A-DING-DING: PW reports that anticipation is building for "The Lord of the Rings," which opens on December 19 in 10,000 theaters internationally. The mass-market paperback edition of "The Fellowship of the Ring" (Ballantine; paperback) is already No. 1 on PW's mass-market list. "The Lord of the Rings Official Movie Guide" (Houghton Mifflin paperback) is No. 11 on the 12/9 NYT paperback nonfiction list...