About Michael Eisner, who former Disney
14 Sep 2010 03:25:52
According to Eisner, 68, he met then-CBS Corp. CEO Larry Tisch, billionaire investor Warren Buffett, and CapCities/ABC CEO Tom Murphy in rapid succession at an annual get-together of media moguls in Sun Valley, Idaho. The men discussed a possible acquisition, and Eisner was faced with deciding which broadcaster to buy.
CBS, he recalled in the interview, "would have been half as expensive" as CapCities/ABC, but ESPN's growth rate was explosive and becoming more important.
"It wasn't even a ques... Read Full Story
Electronic books will took one section in the Frankfurt Book Fair
14 Sep 2010 03:23:12
The Frankfurt Book Fair, the world's largest, will focus this year on the digital sector, organisers said Thursday, as the show seeks to arrest a decline in exhibitor numbers.
With smartphones and electronic books all the rage, "reading is undergoing a revolution," the fair's director Juergen Boos told reporters.
However, he added that the fair "is dedicated to content" and will showcase authors and editors rather than technology.
The fair, which welcomed 290,000 visitors last year, will have... Read Full Story
The terminator’s daughter Katherine Schwarzenegger become a writer
14 Sep 2010 03:18:48
Katherine Schwarzenegger is following in the footsteps of her high-achieving parents, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver.
The 20-year-old college student has written a book coming out next week that's aimed at helping girls gain confidence in their bodies and themselves. It's titled "Rock What You've Got: Secrets to Loving Your Inner and Outer Beauty" (Hyperion).
Schwarzenegger says part of the motivation for the book was overhearing her preteen cousins talk about their de... Read Full Story
"With Love and Laughter, John Ritter" by Amy Yasbeck
13 Sep 2010 01:36:13
He made millions of Americans laugh on a weekly basis on two hit sitcoms that aired decades apart. And for those few who never watched an episode of "Three's Company" or "8 Simple Rules ... for Dating My Teenage Daughter," they probably caught the funnyman in one of his less well-received series, TV guest spots, movie and theater roles or even telethon appearances.
Ritter was everywhere from the height of his "Three's Company" fame in the 1970s and '80s to his death in 2003 at age 54.
Now come... Read Full Story
A great book with photos from the Led Zeppelin’s guitarist Jimmy Page
13 Sep 2010 01:34:09
This book will go on sale later this month for a hefty 445 pounds. Page, one of the world's top guitarists, has chosen nearly 650 photographs to provide a visual history of his musical career, annotated by extended captions written by him.
Only 2,500 copies are being sold, each of them signed and hand-bound in leather and laser-cut Perspex. The pages and spine are decorated in gold, and the book is presented in a silk-bound slipcase.
Although most fans are likely to balk at the price, Page sai... Read Full Story
Laugh, Cry, Eat Some Pie: A Down-to-Earth Recipe for Living from Deanna Davis
13 Sep 2010 01:31:04
In this book there are a lot of useful phrases which will help you to have good psycho-physical state. Plus there are a lot of useful cook recipes. Davis is a speaker, entertainer and workshop leader. She is the author of other self-help books such as "The Law of Attraction in Action" and "Living With Intention."
But her latest effort may be too sweet for some readers.
Life — like pie — is about combining ingredients that aren't always pleasant on their own to create something to be savored, D... Read Full Story
Would you like crime story?
10 Sep 2010 19:33:51
Hill is a brilliant criminal profiler, if a little socially inept. He knows what's expected of him in conversation and interpersonal relationships, but he isn't always able to give it. This hasn't harmed either his working or personal relationship with Detective Chief Inspector Jordan, who heads up a special investigative team with the Bradfield Police. There's a hint of sexual tension between Hill and Jordan, but it skims the surface of a deeper connection between them.
In "Fever of the Bone" ... Read Full Story
The Elephant's Journey by Jose Saramago
10 Sep 2010 19:31:40
This is a book Serious Readers should love. Consider the pedigree: a recently deceased Nobel Prize-winning author, a benevolent animal protagonist and a space on bookstore and library shelves in the hot category Historical Fiction.
None of which explains why this reviewer couldn't read more than 10 pages at a time. Blame that on Saramago's modernist approach — long blocks of text with no quotation marks or paragraph breaks. It's not a new device for him, but it is jarring to readers like this o... Read Full Story
Jilliane Hoffman things in her new book "Pretty Little Things”
10 Sep 2010 19:30:56
It is a story about there the 13-year-old girl Elaine Emerson — Lainey to her friends — where we can understand that there is the sort of teen typically found in fiction — "Twilight"-obsessed, textspeak-fluent, desperately wanting to be older. Lainey has a MySpace page, even though her mother has forbidden her to join and she doesn't meet the social network's minimum age requirement of 14.
Passing herself off as 16, Lainey flirts online with a boy named Zach — only Zach's not 16 either. He's ... Read Full Story
New book about Obama from Bob Woodward
09 Sep 2010 22:51:35
And the focus will not be on the economy — the top issue of the fallelections — but on foreign policy.
Woodward's latest investigative work will run 441 pages (Amazon.com had been listing the count at 464 pages) and show Obama "making the critical decisions on the Afghanistan War, the secret war in Pakistanand the worldwide fight against terrorism," Simon & Schuster announced Tuesday.
Woodward finished three weeks ago, according to an official with knowledge of the book. The official, who said... Read Full Story
Peter Carey’s book "Parrot and Olivier in America" was nominate for the Booker Prize
09 Sep 2010 22:48:36
Peter Carey’s novel "Parrot and Olivier in America" is among six books nominated for the prize, with South Africa's Damon Galgut, Ireland's Emma Donoghue and three British authors providing the competition.
"It's been a great privilege and an exciting challenge for us to reduce our longlist of 13 to this shortlist of six outstandingly good novels," saidAndrew Motion, Britain's former poet laureate who chairs the judges.
"In doing so, we feel sure we've chosen books which demonstrate a rich va... Read Full Story
Tony Blair celebrated release of his autobiography at the Tate Modern art gallery
09 Sep 2010 22:47:13
Former premier Tony Blair has postponed a party at the Tate Modern art gallery celebrating the launch of his autobiography because of threats from protesters, his office said on Wednesday.
Anti-war demonstrators had planned to disrupt the reception on Wednesday evening and a group of celebrated artists including Tracey Emin and Vivienne Westwood had called on the gallery to cancel the "disgraceful" event.
Blair has also been forced to cancel a signing session for "A Journey" at a bookstore in... Read Full Story
