Word: warners
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DIED. MURRAY BURNETT, 86, unsung co-author of the play that became Casablanca; in New York City. Burnett sold Everybody Comes to Rick's to Warner Bros. for $20,000; though three screenwriters later won the Oscar for Casablanca, Burnett was ignored...
...joined a New York architecture firm run by Charles H. Warner Jr., her brother said. In 1963, Larrabee was named an associate at WBTL Architects in Manhattan...
...quiet on Stage 25 of the Warner Bros. Studio in Burbank, Calif. Backstage, the bagels and breakfast makings are laid out for the cast and crew of NBC's new sitcom Veronica's Closet. But the star is nowhere to be seen. Kirstie Alley is in her trailer, squealing with laughter and slurping away on a juice concoction of white grapes and lemons. She is on Day 3 of a 40-day juice-and-fruit fast and proselytizing the cleansing merits of her diet. "Taste it!" says Alley, popping up from the sofa to pour a portion...
...hair shirts and repenting the inherent nosiness of their profession, it's refreshing to meet people who go about the dirty business of tattling with a minimum of regret. "If you're going to publish Kitty Kelley, you've got to just do it," says Laurence Kirshbaum, CEO of Warner Books, which has released Kelley's The Royals (547 pages; $27) to even more controversy than was no doubt hoped for when the book was signed. Kelley is the famously prying celebrity biographer whose works include His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra, which alleged that the singer...
...what it called "obvious" reasons, PEOPLE magazine backed down on plans to run excerpts this week, and even the normally unflinching Kelley is claiming she asked her publisher to hold the book until next January. But Warner (a unit of Time Inc., the publisher of TIME and PEOPLE), citing interest from booksellers, has plunged ahead, rushing The Royals into stores last week--six days early--with no apologies and a jacked-up press run of some 600,000 copies. "Just because the book is unflattering doesn't mean it has no right to be out there," insists Kirshbaum. "This book...