Taymor's lawsuit sought half of all profits derived from the sale, license, transfer or lease of any rights in the original "Spider-Man" book along with a permanent ban of the use of her name or likeness in connection with a documentary film that was made of the birth of the musical without her written consent.

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So he was trying to make a comeback with The Old Man and the Sea, and the book, in fact, was a tremendous success.

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The same man was questioned in connection with two earlier murders of women in the Matlock area, the book reveals.

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This book is a good read (though I disagree with the professor about man-made threats).

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Renowned for his sharp wit and flamboyant clothes, Crisp became a gay icon with his 1968 book The Naked Civil Servant, the story of a young homosexual man in the less tolerant Britain of the 1930s.

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The book is punctuated by passages on the roach from works like Algren's The Man With the Golden Arm.

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At bottom, Lord Duveen was vain, greedy and mightily pleased with himself, the sort of man one is rather glad to have met only in the pages of a book.

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These days, with Hollywood churning out big budget movies based on comic book characters such as Iron Man, the Silver Surfer and the Incredible Hulk, a comics-based opera about a cute little fox may sound a bit tame.

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