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...trusted to make Hollywood-style movies anymore. When ancient-history films lumber like the elephantine Alexander, or when technological gewgaws abduct the magic of fantasy in films like The Polar Express, where can a curious cinephile go? China. That's where director Zhang Yimou blended history book with graphic novel in the worldwide hit Hero, and whence he returns with the even zippier, more cunning kung fu caper, House of Flying Daggers...
LYNNE CHENEY Known for her kids' books, the Veep's wife also wrote a frontier novel, Sisters, in 1981. But--search the bunker--it's out of print...
NEWT GINGRICH The ex-Speaker's second novel in a series, Grant Comes East, fictionalizes the Civil War. Unlike the man, the books have bipartisan appeal...
...know what California Democrat BARBARA BOXER will do during the Senate's next filibuster--write her novel, an untitled yarn of politics and romance due next fall from Chronicle Books. Boxer joins a bipartisan band of politicians getting paid for telling tales...
...From a newly-discovered Jane Austen novel: It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man of good fortune must be in want of a final club membership, about which all the members of his community, particularly the journalists, are very ambivalent indeed...