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...book also failed to seduce Jonathan Demme and Ted Tally, the Oscar-winning director and writer of Silence. Director Ridley Scott, however, read Harris' manuscript while shooting Gladiator in Malta and signed on right away. "I saw in the material humor and romanticism," says Scott. "I think the first team missed that." Zaillian says he took on the writing challenge "because it sounded like...
...think that I was thinking much when an eerie second of silence fell over Science Center B, about a half minute into the fourth slide of my Literature and Arts B-21, "Images of Alexander the Great" exam yesterday. I had been wrestling with the question of whether the manuscript being shown was Byzantine or Islamic, whether the title was "Alexander fighting the Persians" or "Iskandar versus Dara...
...Harvard Business School Press (HBSP) has paid a $250,000 advance for a book about a secret, potentially revolutionary device nicknamed "Ginger," without ever laying eyes (even bionic ones) on the manuscript or on the machine itself...
Three and a half years ago, no one on earth had heard of Harry Potter except J.K. Rowling, the writer who dreamed him up, and the publishers' readers who had rejected the manuscript of her first book featuring the bespectacled boy wizard. And now? Four Harry Potter novels later, translations into 42 languages later, 76 million copies sold worldwide later? Strange, strange things are happening wherever on Earth the young fictional hero and his friends can be found...
Fortunately, I am not the first to face this dilemma; this is the third millennium, after all, and there are some precedents for how to proceed. An obscure manuscript recently discovered in the Vatican Library has been revealed to be a message from a clerk to his fellow students at the cathedral school of Fleury (this was before universities) containing his comments on the passage of the millennium. I have reproduced it here with my comments, so it may serve as a basis for comparison with our time...