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...thought the Collins trial would distract me. Random House was maintaining it shouldn't have to pay Collins the $1.2 million advance for her novel because her manuscript was subliterate gibberish. Her lawyer, who implied that Random House's real problem with Collins was that her celebrity had faded since they'd signed her up, could have summed up his case with one question: "You were expecting maybe The Brothers Karamazov...
...said that the press only consulted the British embassy in Athens about potential reprisals by nationalists, and did not contact the Greek government or any other Greek authorities who would have been more qualified to assess the risks from publishing the manuscript...
...added that the grounds for turning down the manuscript were not sufficient, even with the potential threat to employees
...actress, by turning in work they deemed below the threshold of trashiness, had not lived up to her side of the deal. The publisher sued Collins for the return of her $1.3 million advance. The actress countersued, arguing that her sweetheart contract required her only to submit a "complete manuscript," not an "acceptable" one. Since she turned in two novels, A Ruling Passion and Hell Hath No Fury, as her contract stipulated, Random House owed her the rest of the $4 million...
...cabbage.'"), along with careful descriptions of her clothing. While grilling Evans, the actress's lawyer harked back, perhaps unintentionally, to a precept set forth in Aristotle's Poetics: "She turned in--however good, however bad--a story that had a beginning, a middle and an end, a completed manuscript?" After a pause, Evans said...