"You're the person I love most, and I don't mean sex, " said Omar Sharif, Ms. Streisand's co-star in "Funny Girl, " in a video from his apartment, where a red book of suduku puzzles rested casually on his desk.

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Former employees say Ellison keeps a book on his desk about Genghis Khan, the ruthless Mongol warlord.

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At night he worked at the computer desk in the bedroom, before getting into bed and reading a few pages of the book on his nightstand.

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