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That's something that appealed to me," Berendt admits. "They're unique places. They're unearthly beautiful. A story that takes place in either of those two cities, it's a self-contained environment that is so unusual that it would represent an escape for a reader. You add escape as an element to a book, it's more entertaining, more fun, and you get more involved. "I was thrilled," Berendt says of that singular bestseller status. But as for the achievement by The City of Falling Angels, he says from a book tour stop in Seattle, "I am absolutely thrilled. I didn't expect it. It'll be No. 1 next week as well. And if that's the only time it spends there that would satisfy me. I don't need to be on that list any longer." His journalistic instincts no doubt helped him sniff out the real sto...
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In every $15.95 bestseller, there's a $150 million movie struggling to get out. Mostly, readers take it in stride. Who cares, these days, that the movie "Jaws" ends differently than the novel "Jaws"? Or that "The Godfather" film left out the Dean Martin character who, in the novel, palled around with the Frank Sinatra character? Even movies that take gross liberties with a classic -- such as a 1930 "Moby- Dick" that ended with Captain Ahab killing the whale and getting the girl -- are liable to be viewed as amusing oddities more than crimes against literature.
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[Curtis Hanson]'s not a pushy guy. The script takes a few turns I could've lived without, particularly regarding our gals' mother--but they're played as glancing blows, where most flicks would've lunged for a three-hanky string-orchestra knockout punch. His work is an example of rock-steady, solid craftsmanship--exactly the kind of thing movies are missing these days. I tread lightly here, not only to avoid spoilers, but also because in synopsis it sounds like the corniest thing in the history of movies. Let's just say we're privy to the first time anybody's ever told [Maggie Feller] she's smart--and such an acknowledgment brings forth a light from [Cameron Diaz] that's practically blinding. So Curtis Hanson doesn't want us to call In Her Shoes a "chick flick." Okay, he's earned that ri...
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St. Sulpice on the Left Bank of the Seine is a regal 17th- century church, but has never been much of a tourist draw. After all, it's not easy competing against Paris' many crown jewels: the Louvre, the Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower and Versailles. Just within the neighborhood, the church of St. Germain des Pres is better known.
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This study analyzes reasons for the successful of the Oakland Athletics in Major League Baseball as described in the bestseller, Moneyball. Benchmarking analysis is conducted to quantify the extent of Oakland's achievement. The use of player performance analysis to develop a knowledge-based "David" strategy is investigated. The difficulties of applying the Moneyball approach in more complex invasion team sports are discussed. A hierarchical structural model of an invasion game is proposed as a conceptual framework and its application illustrated using data from English Premiership soccer. The technological, conceptual, and cultural barriers to the transferability of the Moneyball approach to other sports are assessed.
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When Mary Kruse first read "The Da Vinci Code," she felt the way she did decades earlier when she learned as a freshman at Mount Mary College that ancient Babylonian texts contained a flood story similar to that of Noah in Genesis. I thought, What the heck!' " said Kruse, 52, a Catholic from Wauwatosa. "I remember being shaken then, too. It made me think, How true is my Bible?'
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- The real problem with Peter Jackson's adaptation of Alice Sebold's mega-bestseller isn't his much-maligned decision to not film the rape and dismemberment of lf-year-old Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan, Oscar-nominated for Atonement); indeed, such a combustible scene would have sucked the oxygen out of the rest of the film....
