A lovely piece in Talk of the Town this week details how an Italian journalist made up quotes from Philip Roth and John Grisham on Barack Obama (they still maintain warm thoughts, the quotes do not convey that) and how Mr. Roth got to the bottom of it.
It looks like Shia LaBeouf is one step closer to becoming the next Tom Cruise, but hopefully without all that pesky Scientology/alien baby baggage. The young star has just signed on to Paramount’s upcoming adaptation of John Grisham’s latest novel, The Associate, which hits stores just in time for the last Read More
Trident Media Group C.E.O. and literary agent Daniel Strone oversaw two of the season’s most high-stakes book auctions last week, fielding eye-popping offers from publishers across the city without giving them so much as a proposal for either project. Sarah Silverman’s book, which Mr. Strone sold to HarperCollins on Thursday, went for Read More
Steven Spielberg’s Amistad , from a screenplay by David Franzoni, strikes me as Mr. Spielberg’s most accomplished work since Empire of the Sun (1987). There are so many ways Amistad could have gone wrong. Its subject is so morally one-sided that one would expect a measure of cartoonish villainy in the depiction of its villains, Read More
