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Then, says Kennedy, came "my 15 minutes of fame." The Big Picture - featuring a New York City lawyer on the run from a crime of passion - brought him a $1.1 million deal from New York's Hyperion Books and billing as the next John Grisham. He got $1 million for his next thriller, The Job, about an ambitious young salesman enmeshed in a web of deceit. Like its predecessor, the book sold decently but failed to earn back the advance. "On the book tour, I could sense it was tanking," Kennedy recalls. "I was 41. I decided I was going...
...Movie reviewing is the solitary evaluation of a communal medium. Critics watch films in small screening rooms, or alone on DVD players, then retire in solitude to write up their opinions and insights, to recollect passion in tranquility. Roger does all that; but more than any critic I know, he brings the informed discussion of film out from under the lamp, into daylight. He has used his fame to elevate the conversation, challenging audiences to attend not just to the dramatic and ethical aspects of films but to their visual strategies. (Roger is one of the few film critics...
...Michael Kennedy, the sixth child of Robert Kennedy, who once seemed to have his father's quiet passion without the Kennedy sense of entitlement, finds himself at the center of a new scandal--that he allegedly had a five-year affair with a girl who baby-sat his three children at the family home in Cohasset, Mass., beginning when she was 14. At the same time, Joe II, a six-term Congressman planning to run for Governor, is trying to weather a just published book, Shattered Faith, by ex-wife Sheila Rauch Kennedy that depicts him as a narcissistic bully...
...entire Harvard athletics community is shaken by this sudden and tragic loss," Athletic Director Bob Scalise said in a statement. "Paul was universally adored and respected by his student-athletes and coaching peers. He lived and breathed Harvard track and field and his passion for the sport and for teaching was evident. Paul touched the lives of hundreds of athletes. His contributions to the sport and Harvard will not soon be forgotten...
...Which actors have contributed to making your directing vision come to life? -Ignacio Meza in Los AngelesMy passion to do this, engage myself in this, whatever you want to call it, my putting together this thing called Salomaybe?, which is a combination of Oscar Wilde, myself, and Salome. I was lead by a passion to explore it, not really knowing what direction I was going, but hoping the passion would lead me. When I see things I put them in acting terms. Not like I want to paint that or I want to film that, it's more that would...