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...with an ambivalent growl by one of the most famous men in the world - one who got that way by being a singer of songs and lifter of souls - it suddenly sounds less like a love song and more like a grievance. Each time Bono slips out of the Everyman first person ("I know a girl") and into the specific ("I was born to sing for you"), the effect is jarring enough to raise the question, Is he trying to speak...
...previous book was a No. 1 blockbuster that sold more than 20 million copies worldwide, but the difference is that his original was far superior: a deceptively simple but ultimately smart lesson on coping with the inevitability of change. Here, the pensées are punier. A confused young Everyman journeys to the top of a mountain, where he is instructed by a wise old man given to restating the obvious ("Find and use the good that is hidden in the bad time"). The peaks and valleys of the title are the ups and downs of life that we all must...
...Yates oeuvre is in popular demand. Blake, his biographer, notes that an Everyman's Library edition of the author's best work has just been published. "There's an introduction by Richard Price, who was a student of Yates," says Blake. "Price says something like, because Yates had such integrity, and was so self-effacing, that he'd be pissed off by this acclaim." He laughs. "Nothing could be further from the truth. Nothing is more absurd. Yates longed to have more readers, and he knew that he deserved to have more readers." And now he does...
Reading the Swarup novel, Beaufoy wanted to tweak the story from poor boy wins big to Everyman needs a girl. "And once I'd decided on this search for a lost love," he says, "I had to rework all the other stories. The structure is the same, but the questions [asked by the game-show host] are different." Beaufoy made four trips to India over 18 months "to get a completely fresh look at India. I spent a long time in the Juhu slum in Mumbai. I was trained as a documentary director, and I just went back to doing...
...handmade St. Croix black mock turtleneck and jeans, Schiller looks defiantly nerdy, sporting the kind of engineer blue button-down shirt popularized by the dotcom crowd in 1997. Whereas Jobs electrifies a room like some superhero from the X-Men, Schiller saps energy from the hall like an Everyman. You sympathize. He is a good dude. And this has gotta suck...