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Howard and producer Brian Grazer acquired the rights to Sylvia Nasar's unauthorized biography of John Forbes Nash and his wife Alicia. But they also had to pay Nash for his "life" rights. Nash negotiated a deal containing a "can't include without consent" clause and insisted he not be depicted as a homosexual because it wouldn't be true. He made no demands about his episode of anti-Jewish delusions described in the book or his relationship with another woman, with whom he fathered a son. Howard just didn't care to focus on those aspects, which he thought...
...filmmakers weren't interested in these incidents, Internet muckmaker Matt Drudge was. When the movie opened, he ran an item saying it had "completely scrubbed" any gay scenes from Nasar's book. Some thought the tip came from Miramax, but Drudge won't finger his source, saying, with a laugh, "Birds have been singing outside my window." A few weeks ago, he raised the Jewish question. Others tried to trace that tip to Fox, but Drudge says he found it himself when he read the book "and the Jew stuff popped...
...recover rationality after being irrational, to recover a normal life, is a great thing," declared John Nash, who awoke from a quarter-century of schizophrenic debilitation to accept the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics. Nash's life, set forth in the new biography, A Beautiful Mind, by journalist Sylvia Nasar, is a miracle of resurrection. Mindful of that fragile journey, Nash pondered, "But maybe it's not such a great thing. Suppose you have an artist. He's rational. But suppose he cannot paint. He can function normally. Is it really a cure? Is it really salvation?" Consider the tragedy...
Hamid Raschid, 42, and Rusi Nasar, 37, are Moslems. They knew each other in their native Russia, both contrived to escape from the Russian army in World War II, both eventually found their way to the U.S. This year they decided to go on a hadj-the pilgrimage to Mecca enjoined by the Koran upon every able-bodied Moslem...