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That idea does not come naturally to Apatow. "I would look through a journal from 12 years ago, and it would say, 'You work too hard. Take some time off. You should work out. Go to Europe,' " he says. "I stopped writing in a diary because it became so repetitive." So now he says he's taking his first year off. "If I go right back to working, then I seem like a crazy person who didn't learn the lesson of his own movie," he says. "You want overlap so if this one bombs, you're already on production...
When I tell Rogen about Apatow's planned sabbatical, he just laughs. "What year - 2030? He's got this movie to promote, then Get Him to the Greek is in post-production and then two movies he's producing," he says. "He may say that, but he'll write a movie during that time." I think Rogen underestimates Apatow's work ethic. I'm betting he writes nothing. And that his back kills...
...books. Timbuktu's literary output was enormous, and included works covering the history of Africa and southern Europe, religion, mathematics, medicine and law. There were manuscripts detailing the movement of the stars, possible cures for malaria and remedies for menstrual pain. "I have here my family's whole history," says Ismael Diadié Haidara, whose ancestors carried their books to Timbuktu from Toledo, Spain when they fled religious persecution in 1467, and later wrote and purchased thousands more. "Families which were exiled, which had no country, had their libraries. It was people's security. They could say, 'This is where...
...news of the manuscripts has filtered out over the past few years, another group of visitors has begun arriving: antiques collectors and dealers looking to snap up rare and valuable treasures at bargain prices. Locals say the number of collectors has increased markedly over the past year. The village of Ber, an hour's drive from Timbuktu across the blazing sand and past boys leading donkeys that haul spindly thorn branches home for firewood, might seem remote and protected. But when I arrived there in May, collectors had recently visited in search of manuscripts, according to locals. "Since April, people...
...frankly afraid to say anything," said Whalen, who seemed to be fighting back tears at times and was visibly shaken. "People called me racist and said I caused all the turmoil that followed, and some even said threatening things that made me fear for my safety. I knew the truth but I didn't speak up right away because I did not want to add to the controversy...