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...book is scheduled for publication this fall.) While jogging in Manhattan's Central Park, Atlas experienced an epiphany: "It seemed to me that there should be short biographies by great writers." A few days later, he mentioned this idea, over cocktails, to an editor at Viking (a division of Penguin Putnam, Inc.), and a project was born. Atlas secured financial backing from Kenneth Lipper, an investment banker and a former deputy mayor of New York City. Viking agreed to co-publish, as Lipper/Viking Books, and distribute 18 prospective titles under the generic rubric Penguin Lives...
...Saint Augustine is a permanent concern of mine," says Wills. "He has been my hero and favorite writer and thinker since college. I had been looking for the opportunity to write a short life." Gordon recalls Atlas' phone call asking her if she'd be interested in contributing a Penguin Lives volume: "It was as if a lightning bolt hit me. I said, 'Yes, I'd like to do Joan of Arc.' I've been really fascinated by her since I was a little girl." Although she was teaching at Barnard College and working on a novel, she does...
...seem a little counterintuitive to sue for libel when you're accused of being a "Hitler partisan" and "one of the most dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial." And so it proved on Tuesday when a British judge dismissed a claim of defamation by historian David Irving against Penguin Books and U.S. academic Deborah Lipstadt over her 1994 book that slammed him as a Holocaust denier. Irving had sought to establish serious scholarly credentials for his claims that Hitler had been unaware of the Nazis' "Final Solution" until late in the war, and for his attempts to refute the notion that...
...Shackleton's ship, Endurance, got locked in the ice of the Weddell Sea and eventually broke apart and sank. Shackleton led his 28 men on an 18-month frozen odyssey, camping on disintegrating ice floes, living on blubber and cold penguin legs while killer whales eyed the expedition from below, speculating that men might taste as good as seals...
...canon. It also forged a relationship between Burton and Johnny Depp, which would eventually lead to their working together on Ed Wood and, ultimately, Sleepy Hollow. In 1992, Burton returned to the familiar Batworld to direct Batman Returns. The story, focusing on Batman's struggle against both the Penguin and Catwoman, starred Keaton again, as well as Danny Devito and Michelle Pfeiffer in the respective villain roles. Though successful, the movie was perceived as being much darker than its predecessor, something that Burton disagreed with...