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...Celebrate Hanks' 50th birthday by visiting major league ballparks B) Celebrate Hanks' 50th birthday by finding Meg Ryan C) Get their kicks on Route 66 D) Film The Da Vinci Code 2: Electric Boogaloo...
...packet of sparklers are the simple sense-memory props that begin the journey: we are backstage at an end-of-year school production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Puckish Tom (Leon Cain), the son of poor English migrants, is making his first tentative teenage overtures to middle-class Meg (Francesca Savige); her shrewish mother Gwen (Barbara Lowing) in turn is being gently snubbed by the headmaster's aloof wife Coral (Georgina Symes). As the three families go their separate ways over Christmas?to camp, caravan park and Gold Coast resort, respectively?only to meet up on the same stretch...
...unfolded at a rapid pace. That Thursday, Little, Brown asked bookstores to take “Opal Mehta” off their shelves until a revised edition could be put together. By May 2—after similarities were found between Viswanathan’s novel and books by Meg Cabot, Salman Rushdie, and Sophie Kinsella—the sophomore’s two-book contract had been cancelled and Little, Brown had decided not to rerelease “Opal Mehta.” The entire sequence of events played out in just over a week.Amid the controversy, administrators...
...Viswanathan admitted last week that she borrowed language from two of Megan F. McCafferty’s novels but that any similarities were “unintentional and unconscious.” The Crimson reported yesterday that “Opal Mehta” also contained similarities to Meg Cabot’s 2000 novel “The Princess Diaries.” The New York Times noted further parallels between Viswanathan’s book and two works by Salman Rushdie and Sophie Kinsella. Viswanathan said in a statement last week that the novel would be revised...
Page 12 of Meg Cabot’s 2000 novel “The Princess Diaries” reads: “There isn’t a single inch of me that hasn’t been pinched, cut, filed, painted, sloughed, blown dry, or moisturized. [...] Because I don’t look a thing like Mia Thermopolis. Mia Thermopolis never had fingernails. Mia Thermopolis never had blond highlights. Mia Thermopolis never wore makeup or Gucci shoes or Chanel skirts or Christian Dior bras, which by the way don’t even come in 32A, which...