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...ever. When Mitchard finally returned the call, she learned that her just published first novel, The Deep End of the Ocean, had been chosen as the initial recommendation of Oprah's Book Club, a new once-a-month feature on America's most popular syndicated talk show. Mitchard had no idea what this news meant: "I was so surprised that it really was Oprah, because there is not much of a tradition of writers on talk shows. Even as a writer I wouldn't want to hear myself talk about fiction for an hour...
Here is what the news meant: Mitchard's novel, an account of the sudden disappearance of a three-year-old child, sold about 100,000 copies before Oprah recommended it to her 15 million to 20 million daily viewers. Now The Deep End of the Ocean has become entrenched at the top of the New York Times fiction best-seller list, ahead of works by Sue Grafton, Danielle Steel, Mary Higgins Clark, Scott Turow and Stephen King. As she watched her novel sweep past such household names, Mitchard says, "I felt I was having an out-of-body experience...
Last year the 42-year-old director paid a dozen visits to the ocean-floor site of the Titanic wreck, some 400 miles off the coast of Newfoundland and 2 1/2 dark and chilly miles below the surface, to shoot footage. That meant nearly three hours drifting to the bottom of the sea, packed with two crew members into a sphere about 7 ft. in diameter. Cameron, an inveterate thrill seeker, loved...
...real resonance for Hollywood types. "It's like the opening night of the biggest movie in the world flopping." This Titanic features a shipboard thief-rapist, played with curious jauntiness by Tim Curry. Unlike his doomed fellow passengers, Curry's character manages to escape from lines like "The ocean is so big, isn't it? It makes one feel so small and insignificant...
...wasteful spending as the state's General Treasurer. She has detailed ideas on how to adjust the tax system, including indexing the capital-gains tax to inflation and giving estate-tax cuts to help small businesses. She'll have to buck a hefty Democratic tradition, though, to become the Ocean State's first female senator...