Word: fictions
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...studio first hit pay dirt in the '80s with the success of small, quirky films like sex, lies, and videotape, then exploded with big hits, including The Crying Game and Pulp Fiction. It reached critical mass with Best Picture winners The English Patient and Shakespeare in Love during the late '90s. The brothers--Harvey especially--seemed to have a knack for seeing around the zeitgeist and an unerring eye for talent. Gwyneth Paltrow, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck became part of the Miramax stable, the newest cool kids' table in Hollywood...
...things that helped define them," says Kevin Smith, whose career as a cult filmmaker began after Miramax released his $27,000 indie Clerks in 1994. "They overextended and overreached, and now it seems like they're reining it all back in... This is the company that made Pulp Fiction, that put out The Piano and The Crying Game--why on earth would they make something like Kate & Leopold or She's All That...
...Publishers Marketplace says that current interest in nannies may extend to "The Mommy Diaries," a humorous non-fiction account of the first-hand experiences of the woman who started one of the first nanny agencies in the U.S. in 1983. Mommy better hurry up: "The Nanny Diaries" (St. Martin's) is No. 4 on the 4/7 fiction list after three weeks...
...left behind. "The Remnant," the tenth book in the Number 1 best-selling apocalyptic fiction series by authors Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins, will be published on July 2 by Tyndale, a major Christian publisher. That fact won't be lost upon anyone who reads PW. Tyndale bought five full pages in PW, including the cover, to advertise the book. The series has sold over 50 million copies...
...station, stroll straight to the office that contains its most sensitive information, and walk out again with highly classified documents. But that's just what happened last week at Castlereagh Police Station in Belfast. The perpetrators of this audacious crime did more than just provide the authors of cheap fiction with a new plot twist - they managed to spook the real-life spooks...