Ryan's The Longest Day, a 1959 book about D-Day, sold millions of copies and was made into an epic film with an all-star cast.
Scorsese is also stepping into the world of 3-D with his film version of the popular book The Invention of Hugo Cabret.
He meant that he'd use the "paired-share" status of Starwood to book big profits and avoid the conflicts between hotel owners and hotel management firms that plagued the industry.
If my Dad had ponied up 50 bucks in 1963, and I'd taken a pre-emptive page out of my son's book and bought a few shares of IBM, I'd be on Easy Street today.
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"The book didn't catch on quite as quickly as you'd expect - the third edition was remaindered, " says Professor Janet Todd, the general editor of the nine-volume Cambridge edition of the works of Jane Austen.
By far the most anticipated film this fall is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows which hits theaters November 19th. (See the trailer at the bottom of this post.) The film is the first part of the final Potter book and the first Harry Potter film to be shown in 3-D.
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"Oreiller is the man who inspired a lot of kids in Val d'Isere to try to become ski champions in the post-war period, " said Perret, author of a book about one of Val d'Isere's most famous events.
From 20 years of contact with Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, I'd describe his life and work in two words: open book.
He'd won the book in an Arbor Day poster contest for schoolkids that had coincided with a citywide tree-planting program administered by the Department of Parks and Public Property.
Instead, Doug Wright ("I Am My Own Wife") has written a book in which they are portrayed with the kind of clear-eyed sympathy you'd expect to find in a play by Horton Foote.
But the college would have to value the gift using an IRS-approved appraisal, which is typically lower than book value and vastly lower than the valuation you'd get on a frothy Nasdaq.
"They thought it would be quite funny to send me up the mast to get me out of their hair, as I'd been photographing them day-in-day-out for a few weeks, " Kos writes in the upcoming book.
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