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...faithful-to-the-book version turned in by LAURA JONES, who has adapted several books for film, including Portrait of a Lady and A Thousand Acres. Columbia, scared off by the book's less romantic aspects--the main character is an overweight lummox who moves to bleakest Newfoundland--wanted a more conventional love story. Both Travolta's and Columbia's reps say they're committed to the film. They only need to find a director and a script before Travolta finishes The General's Daughter and moves on to another irresistible project...
...faithful-to-the-book version turned in by Laura Jones, who has adapted several books for film, including "Portrait of a Lady" and "A Thousand Acres." Columbia, scared off by the book's less romantic aspects -- the main character is an overweight lummox who moves to bleakest Newfoundland -- wanted a more conventional love story. Both Travolta's and Columbia's reps say they're committed to the film. They only need to find a director and a script before Travolta finishes "The General's Daughter" and moves on to another irresistible project...
...great auk's fate. During the 18th and 19th centuries, commercial fishing vessels scoured the waters off North America for cod. Since the all but defenseless great auk provided a source of meat and oil, fishermen clubbed the birds to death by the millions on the rookeries off Newfoundland. The last two known members of the species, a nesting pair, were killed on June 3, 1844, strangled by Icelandic fishermen recruited by a merchant who hoped to sell the skins to collectors...
...Wheeler decided to use the story of the great auk to dramatize what was happening. A former U.S. Navy deep-sea diver and a veteran kayaker, he set out on a solo 1,500-mile kayak trip from Newfoundland to Buzzards Bay, Mass., following the seasonal migration route of the great auk--as much a feat for a man with a paddle as for a bird that could not fly. He hoped the attention the perilous journey would receive would send a clear message: "What we did to the auk, we are now doing to other species...
...priestly life and thescriptures. When his father dies and the othermonks flee a famine, the boy is loosed upon thecountry. Having never encountered humans before,he viciously survives the hunger by murdering andcannibalizing those whom he has been taught inLatin to treat as Christ. He continues in similarfashion in Newfoundland, as a pirate terrorizingthe British Colony there until the day theCatholics return and he falls back into theautomatic regimen of his youth...